Creek Nation Recollections: Memories of Life in the Indian Territory

The picture of native life in the Indian Territory in the late 1800s and early 1900s of the inhabitants of the Creek Nation through pho-tographs and interviews that were conducted in the late 1930s under the supervision of the Work Projects Administration (WPA) is known as the Indian-Pioneer Papers. When viewed with photographs from the Oklahoma Historical Society, it gives a taste of those days past when the Indian Territory was subsumed by the state of Oklahoma. The tales in this little book are drawn from and are concerning Muscogee (Creek) tribal people or their friends, garnered from inter-views in the Indian Pioneer History Collection in the University of Oklahoma Libraries Western History Collections, and photographs from the Oklahoma Historical Society, intended to celebrate these el-ders who once carried on traditions that they passed to us today.