Ownership of Council Oak and Stickball Parks will be restored to the Muscogee Nation. “The decisions about what happens on this sacred ground needs to be made by the Muscogee Creek Nation moving forward, and that is why we are initiating this transfer of land,” Tulsa Mayor G.T.
Bynum said Saturday morning during the tribe's annual Oak Tree Day ceremony. Every Nov. 9, Muscogee Nation leaders and tribal citizens meet at Council Oak and Stickball Park in downtown Tulsa to commemorate the tribe’s successes over the past year.
The park shelters the Council Oak Tree, a historical monument that marks the site of the first settlement of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation's Locv Pokv Tribal Town. Muscogee Nation Chief David Hill shared the removal history of the tribe at the event. Hill said that the Muscogee people first were removed from their homeland in Florida to Georgia to Alabama, then finally 14,000 Muscogee people embarked on the three-month-long "trail of tears" to Oklahoma that ended at the Council Oak Tree in what is now Tulsa.
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