Tuskahoma, Oklahoma
| Tuskahoma | |
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| Unincorporated community | |
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| Coordinates: 34°37′4″N 95°16′36″W / 34.61778°N 95.27667°WCoordinates: 34°37′4″N 95°16′36″W / 34.61778°N 95.27667°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Oklahoma |
| County | Pushmataha |
| Elevation | 600 ft (200 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 151 |
| Time zone | Central (CST) (UTC-6) |
| • Summer (DST) | CDT (UTC-5) |
| ZIP codes | 74574 |
Tuskahoma is an unincorporated community in northern Pushmataha County, Oklahoma, four miles east of Clayton. The population at the 2010 census was 151.
A United States Post Office was established at Tushka Homma, Indian Territory on February 27, 1885. On October 28, 1891, the spelling changed to Tushkahomma. On December 6, 1910 the official spelling changed to its present rendering, Tuskahoma. The community has also been served by post office locations at nearby Council House, Oklahoma (1872–1880) and Lyceum, Oklahoma (1896–1900). Council House was located at the Choctaw Capitol Building and Lyceum was located at the former Choctaw Female Academy.
Tuskahoma is a compound word meaning “red warrior” in the Choctaw language.
Tuskahoma was designated as (political) capital of the Choctaw Nation in 1882 when an Act of the Choctaw Nation dated October 20, 1882, established the community as the permanent seat of government. The Nation’s first capital after the Trail of Tears was at Nanih [Nunih] Waiyah, two miles east of Tuskahoma. [It was named after "Nunih Waiyah," a sacred mound in Mississippi where the Choctaw brought the bones of their ancestors to rest and established the tribe. The mound was built by an earlier people, but it became sacred to the Choctaw as well.] Afterward, during a time of constitutional experimentation, the Choctaw shifted their capital from Nanih Waiyah to Doaksville, Skullyville, Fort Towson and Boggy Depot. The Choctaw wartime capital during the American Civil War was located at Armstrong Academy, also known as Chahta Tamaha.
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