The Choctaw Nation Capitol Building

The museum the plaque ends on came after the building nearly left Choctaw hands. Its name, Tvshkahomma, means red warrior. By the mid-1920s it had passed into private ownership, and Choctaw leaders bought it back less than a decade later as a community center; a 1930s renovation added Indian Arts and Crafts offices, a small museum and quarters for the principal chief. The grounds stayed the home of the Labor Day Festival, and a Choctaw Historical Society plan of the late 1960s became the Tvshkahomma Capitol Museum, dedicated September 1, 1975. Admission is free, weekdays.

What the plaque says

The Choctaw Nation Capitol Building This building was erected in 1884 during term of Chief Jackson McCurtain who made his farewell address there. It housed the offices of chief, secretary, attorney, treasurer, auditor and two house legislature. Now serves as a museum. Oklahoma Historical Society 214-1995

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Tvshkahomma Capitol Museum — steps away
  The Choctaw Nation's 1884 brick capitol in the Kiamichi valley, seat of its senate, house and supreme court until statehood, now the Nation's museum and the ground of its Labor Day Festival.
• Robbers Cave State Park — 24 mi
  A sandstone cave in the Sans Bois Mountains north of Wilburton, wrapped in outlaw stories, and the park that Boy Scouts, prison labor and the CCC built around it.

More markers nearby

• Choctaw Capitols — 2.6 mi
• Mountain Station — 16 mi
• Riddle's Station — 19 mi
• Bernard de La Harpe 1719 — 20 mi