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Chilocco Indian School

Kay County
Location: on US-77 at the Oklahoma-Kansas border
Coordinates: 36.998350, -97.045762
Material: Granite
Sponsor(s): Oklahoma Historical Society
Topics: American Indians; Education; Territorial Period, 1861–1907

Congress authorized this off-reservation school for Indian children in 1882. The school opened two years later, admitting children from tribes such as the Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Comanche. The first class at Chilocco graduated in 1894.

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