Historical Marker Program

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Edmund Pickens (Ok-chan-tubby)

Love County
Location: on OK-32 at Ennville
Coordinates: 33.981711, -96.987312
Material: Aluminum
Sponsor(s): Keel Cemetery Association and Oklahoma Historical Society
Topics: American Indians; Government; Settlement Patterns; Westward Expansion, 1803–1861

Born in Mississippi, Pickens was the first elected chief of the Chickasaw Nation after it was forcibly removed to Indian Territory in 1837. Pickens County in the Chickasaw Nation was named for him. Signed the treaty of alliance between the Chickasaw and Choctaw Nations and the Confederacy in July 1861. Signed treaties with the US government in 1852, 1855, and 1866.