Annual Black Indian Pow Wow

Starting date: Sat September, 21st

Always call # confirm

Event# 580-402-2524

Event Details

Educational festival that celebrates ethnic Indian history. All persons welcome. All Nations and Regalia attendance encouraged. Intertribal dancing, food, vendors. Take your lawn chairs! Museum Tours cost $5. Outdoor primitive camping for a fee.

Annual Black Indian Pow Wow

Address : 616 Leona Mitchell Blvd. Great Salt Plains State Park OK
Phone : 580-402-2524 (Always call and confirm events.)

Web: www.leonamitchellsouthernheightsindianmuseum.org

Pow Wows

Great Salt Plains State Park Camping

Great Salt Plains Camping

The State Park offers both waterfront and wooded primitive and RV campgrounds. Sandy Beach has 34 primitive and 27 RV sites at Area 1 and approximately 43 primitive sites at Area ll, and a swim beach with bathhouse. The Salt River Road Area has 36 RV sites and 15 primitive sites, trails, and a marina. The North and South Spillway Areas each offer approximately 8 primitive campsites.

There are seven comfort stations (three with showers) located throughout the park, including at least one in each of the campgrounds; and one sanitary dump station is available for recreational vehicle use. Semi-modern campground and comfort station in River Road is open year round. Other comfort stations are open from March 15 to October 31.

Great Salt Plains State Park Cabins

Great Salt Plains Cabins
Six cabins each feature a fully-equipped kitchen, a double bed and a hide-a-bed. The cabins are air-conditioned and heated. Five of the cabins will each accommodate four guests. One larger cabin, furnished with two double beds and a hide-a-bed, will accommodate six guests. Cabins are provided with cookware, dishes, utensils, towels, linen, and cleaning supplies. There are no telephones, television or fireplaces in the cabins. Cabins are available year round.

Great Salt Plains State Park Trails

Great Salt Plains Trails
Hiking includes the Tonkawa Interpretive Trail, an easy 3/4 mile trail that is great for seniors and handicapped persons, located just north of the spillway.

The George Sibley Trail, is a seven mile, multi-use trail for horses, hikers, and mountain bikers (an equestrian campground is available).

Cherokee

12 mi. W
Located just west of the Great Salt Plains National Refuge which was never opened to settlement, Cherokee became the county seat of Alfalfa County after its sudden growth as one of the tent cities of the Cherokee Outlet Land Run of 1893. Cherokee continues to grow as a stopover for visitors to th Visit us in Cherokee
Medford

24 mi. E
Medford, the county seat of Grant County, is situated on the Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific railroad just one quarter mile of the geographical center of the county, originally designated as "L" County during the Cherokee Strip territorial division. Situated along the Chisholm Trail it is only eig Visit us in Medford
Alva

26 mi. W
Alva was one of the four designated land office towns at the opening of the Cherokee Outlet in 1893. Its name honors Alva B. Adams, pioneer attorney for the Santa Fe Railroad whose main line (now the Burlington Northern-Santa Fe Railroad) serves Alva. Adams later became governor of Colorado. Today, Visit us in Alva
Aline

29 mi. SW
At one time there were thousands of sod houses dotting the plains region of North America, but the "soddy" in Aline, Oklahoma is the only one still standing in Oklahoma that remains in its original location. A metal building has been erected around the soddy to preserve it from the elements. The exh Visit us in Aline
Enid

42 mi. SE
This is historic Enid, Oklahoma - the hub of Northwest Oklahoma since its overnight development in the 1893 Land Run. It's the Bright Star of the Great Plains. It is a town said to have been named by a railroad official after a character in Tennyson's "The Idylls of the King," who felt that Geraint' Visit us in Enid
Freedom

54 mi. W
Visitors to Freedom are astounded by the lingering presence of the "Old West," as nearly every building in the downtown area is fronted with native cedar wood in designs typical of an early day cowtown. Just to the south of Freedom, amidst a series of deep, rugged canyons inhabited by Indians and Visit us in Freedom

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Annual Black Indian Pow Wow

Event Details

Annual Black Indian Pow Wow

Great Salt Plains State Park Camping

Great Salt Plains State Park Cabins

Great Salt Plains State Park Trails

Park Area Attractions

Cherokee 12

Medford 8

Alva 9

Aline 2

Enid 20

Freedom 14

Park Area Events

Cherokee 1

Park Area Businesses

Cherokee 21

Medford 2

Alva 29

Aline 1

Enid 22

Freedom 11