Chilocco Indian Agricultural School
Chilocco Indian Agricultural School | |
One of the abandoned buildings at Chilocco Indian Agricultural School, a school for Native Americans that operated from 1884 to 1980 located approximately 20 miles north of Ponca City, Oklahoma. | |
| Location | US 77 and E0018 Rd., Newkirk, Oklahoma |
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| Coordinates | 36°59′6″N 97°3′45″W / 36.98500°N 97.06250°W |
| Area | 288 acres (117 ha) |
| Architect | Bidwell, Edmund; Pauley, Hoyland & Smith |
| Architectural style | Romanesque, Colonial Revival, et al. |
| NRHP reference No. | 06000792 |
| Added to NRHP | September 08, 2006 |
Chilocco Indian School (/ʃɪˈlɑkoʊ/) was an agricultural school for Native Americans on reserved land in north-central Oklahoma from 1884 to 1980. It was approximately 20 miles north of Ponca City, Oklahoma and seven miles north of Newkirk, Oklahoma, near the Kansas border. The name "Chilocco" is apparently derived from the Creek tci lako, which literally meant "big deer" but typically referred to a horse.
In 1912, the Oklahoma Supreme Court heard a case over an election dispute involving whisky and whether the Chilocco reservation was part of Kay County and the state of Oklahoma or "Indian Territory". The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that school land was not an Indian Reservation, that the school was an off-reservation entity, and that the word reservation had various meanings and the area was not reserved as Indian territory.