Tvshkahomma Capitol Museum

The Choctaw Nation moved its capital several times after removal, and in 1883 the National Council authorized a permanent seat at Tushka Homma, two miles north of the present town of Tuskahoma. The name means red warrior. The building was finished in 1884 of red brick, sandstone and local timber, and it held the Senate, the House of Representatives, the Supreme Court, the principal chief and other officers until statehood in 1907 ended the Nation's government.

After that the building followed the turns of federal policy, and since 1975 it has been the Tvshkahomma Capitol Museum.

Inside, the Mississippi Room covers the early diplomacy and leaders before the forced removal of the 1830s, the Oklahoma Room has large dioramas of life in the new territory, and a small theater keeps medals, belongings and descendants' interviews of the Choctaw Code Talkers, soldiers of the 36th Division who carried messages in Choctaw in France in 1918. One exhibit tells of the Nation's gift to the Irish in the famine of 1847, sent to Midleton in County Cork by Choctaws only just arrived in the West.