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State of Oklahoma Posters, Prints, Photographs, Maps, & Calendars
for educators and home schoolers, themed decor in studio or office.
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geography > NA > US > Southern States > Oklahoma < social studies
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Oklahoma, known as the “Sooner State”, joined the Union on November 16, 1907 as the 46th state. The word “Oklahoma” comes from two Choctaw Indian words (okla+humma) meaning “red people” and was suggested as the name for the Indian territory created by the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
There is archeological evidence of mound structures inhabitated between 850-1450 AD. In the 1700s the area was claimed French explorers, making Oklahoma part of the 1804 Louisiana Purchase.
Oklahoma is in the West South Central Region (US Census Bureau) and is bordered on the north by Colorado and Kansas, the east by Missouri and Arkansas, the south and west by Texas and the west by New Mexico.
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The state flag of Oklahoma is an Osage warrior shield on a field of blue; the shield is crossed by a peace pipe and an olive branch.
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Oklahoma is known as the Sooner State for the nickname given to the early settlers who illegally crossed into the “Unassigned Lands” early in the Oklahoma Land Rush.
• more map posters
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Mistletoe is the Oklahoma state floral symbol, the state flower is Indian Blanket.
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The perennial and deciduous Eastern Redbud is the state tree of Oklahoma. The blossoms appear in the early spring. Native Americans tribes used eastern redbud bark for a tea to treat coughs, cold infusions of the roots and inner bark for fevers and congestion. The flowers can be used in salads and for making pickled relish, the inner bark of twigs gives a mustard-yellow dye.
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Native to North and Central America, the Scissor-Tailed Flycatcher, Tyrannus forficatus, is also known as the Texas bird-of-paradise and the swallowtailed flycatcher.
It is a long-tailed insectivorous (insect-eating) bird of the (Tyrannus) genus, whose members are collectively referred to as kingbirds. Their breeding habitat is the open shrubby environment with scattered trees.
FYI - Tyrannus! think of big, as in dinosaur.
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Will Rogers
b. 11-4-1879; Indian Territory (Oklahoma)
d. 8-15-1935; airplane crash with Wiley Post at Pt. Barrow, AK
Will Rogers, an American cowboy, comedian, humorist, social commentator, vaudeville performer and actor, was one of the best-known celebrities in the 1920s and 1930s. Rogers was of Cherokee ancestry - he quipped that his ancestors didn't come over on the Mayflower but they “met the boat.”
Will Rogers quote ~
• “I was just thinking, if it is really religion with these nudist colonies, they sure must turn atheists in the wintertime.”
• “If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else's dog around.”
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