Oklahoma biography
Oklahoma history facts...
Humans arrived in the area now known as Oklahoma an estimated 30,000 years ago and organized into agriculture-based settlements around 2,000 years ago. Historians can trace the Wichita and the Caddo back 2,000 years, and the Osage and Apachean-speaking people were likely in the area before Europeans arrived.
By the time Spanish explorers came to Oklahoma in the 1500s, the area was also home to the Pawnee, Quapaw and Osage.
Oklahoma biography
The Kiowa, Comanche, Arapaho and Cheyenne tribes also raided the region and used its land.
The Wichitas, Caddos, Apaches and Quapaws are considered the area's Indigenous tribes. A total of 39 American Indian tribes are headquartered within Oklahoma.
European Exploration and American Settlement
A number of Spanish explorers living in Mexico first came to Oklahoma in the 1500s in search of the fabled seven golden cities.
In 1539, Hernando de Soto traveled through Florida into Arkansas and potentially the eastern edge of Oklahoma searching for gold. Francisco Vás