“A Colored Pow-Wow”

Daily Ardmoreite, August 4, 1898 P3C3

Throughout the history of the Indian Territory and later the state of Oklahoma formerly enslaved people who are known as Indian Territory Freedmen “celebrated” their “emancipation” from bondage by holding festive events with cookouts and speakers from their communities.

One of the earliest newspaper articles announcing “Emancipation Day” was published in the Daily Ardmoreite August 4, 1898, with the interesting title of “A Colored Pow-Wow.” 

Newspaper articles compiled by Terry Ligon “A Century of Chickasaw-Choctaw Freedmen 1840-1940”.