Mapping Tahlequah History

FAIN: AA-277689-21

Northeastern Oklahoma State University (Tahlequah, OK 74464-2301)
Farina King (Project Director: July 2020 to July 2022)
John McIntosh (Project Director: July 2022 to present)
John McIntosh (Co Project Director: November 2020 to July 2022)
David Corcoran (Co Project Director: July 2022 to present)

A curriculum development and public history project creating an interactive map and database to be used in seven courses.

This proposal seeks three years of funding for the Mapping Tahlequah History project based at Northeastern State University (NSU) to support student immersive learning and development of a public educational digital humanities interactive map and accompanying database focused on local history. The map and database will help make local historical information more accessible by providing students and other users with links to documents and other resources such as videos and pictures. The project will highlight Cherokee and diverse regional histories of Tahlequah and surrounding areas of what is known as Green Country in Northeastern Oklahoma.

Associated Products

Mapping Tahlequah History: A Project Supporting Immersive and Experiential Learning OKCHE 2021 (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Mapping Tahlequah History: A Project Supporting Immersive and Experiential Learning OKCHE 2021
Author: Farina King
Author: John McIntosh
Author: Hannah Cowan
Author: Sarah Wood
Abstract: This is a presentation for educators of history and Social Studies in Oklahoma with the core Mapping Tahlequah History project team members, Drs. Farina King and John McIntosh and student research assistants Sarah Wood and Hannah Cowan, to emphasize the possibilities of using the interactive website and project for curriculum and K-12 education. Mapping Tahlequah History is a digital humanities project designed to facilitate interaction between students, the local community and scholars to support immersive learning. The centerpiece is an online interactive map with content contributed by students and other participants. This session introduces the project and solicits feedback on planned extensions.
Date: 10/2/21
Primary URL: https://www.okche.org/conference
Primary URL Description: This is the conference website for the Oklahoma Council for History Education that our group participated in for the fall 2021 virtual conference.
Conference Name: Oklahoma Council For History Education Fall Conference 2021

Mapping Tahlequah History NACIS 2021 Presentation (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Mapping Tahlequah History NACIS 2021 Presentation
Author: Farina King
Author: John McIntosh
Abstract: Mapping Tahlequah History (MTH) is a project based at Northeastern State University (NSU) that supports student immersive learning and development of a public educational digital humanities interactive map and accompanying database focused on local history. The map and database help make local historical information more accessible by providing students and other users with links to documents and other resources such as videos and pictures. Content on the interactive map is contributed by community members, faculty and students. In this presentation, we discuss our approach to this participatory GIS effort including contributions, attribution, quality control and other challenges we have encountered. This is a presentation for the North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS) conference held in Oklahoma City during October 2021.
Date: 10/15/21
Primary URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BegR8zIFmsk&list=PLcBEhOBZvhcZ4b-_hIJ78SRhx7-i-1P-y&index=77
Primary URL Description: This is a public video recording of NACIS conference 2021 presentation.
Secondary URL: https://nacis2021.sched.com/event/lXOx/history-of-cartography-i
Secondary URL Description: This is the link to the conference schedule.
Conference Name: North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS) Annual Meeting 2021

Mapping Tahlequah History (Web Resource)
Title: Mapping Tahlequah History
Author: John McIntosh
Author: Farina King
Abstract: The website allows participants from the university and community to upload images, narratives, and other information about the historical and cultural significance of local sites with the review and approval of Drs. King and McIntosh. The accessible map-based interface provides links to documents and other resources, serving to educate the public and offer students immersive learning in the humanities. Grant money is used to host this site and major updates have occurred during the grant period.
Year: 2020
Primary URL: https://mappingtahlequahhistory.org

Mapping Tahlequah History 2022 Workshop (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: Mapping Tahlequah History 2022 Workshop
Abstract: the Mapping Tahlequah History Workshop was held on Monday, April 4, 2022 in the Webb Tower and room 614 of the W. Roger Webb Educational Technology Center (Webb) at Northeastern State University (NSU) on the Tahlequah campus between 9 am and 4 pm Central Time. Mapping Tahlequah History (MTH) traces historic sites of Tahlequah and contiguous regions in Green Country to underscore the significance of their intricate histories, relying on reading place and research with the Special Collections and Archives at Northeastern State University (NSU). This project, facilitated by Dr. Farina King and Dr. John McIntosh, enables students to apply their learning in historical interpretation and design to a digital mapping history project. MTH serves the public by contributing to accessible analysis of local histories, while featuring NSU students' original research on historic sites in the area. This workshop brings different partners, collaborators, and community together to consider past, current, and future developments of the MTH project. This workshop is open and free to the community and public. The keynote talk was held from 10:30 AM to 11:45 AM featuring Dr. Brenden W. Rensink’s “Reconnecting the Public with Their Pasts through Digital History.” The keynote talk was available virtually as well as in-person. Most sessions of the workshop were held in person in the Webb Tower between 9 am and 4 pm, but people were welcome to come and go as they needed. There were two sessions that were available virtually as well as in-person (meeting in room 614 of the Webb building), which include: A conversation with Dr. Brenden W. Rensink about "Reconnecting the Public With Their Pasts Through Digital History" from 10:30 am to 11:45 am A panel about Cherokee Landscapes and Language with Dr. Justin McBride and Ia Bull from 1:40 pm to 2:30 pm
Author: Farina King
Author: John McIntosh
Date: 4/4/2022
Location: Northeastern State University, Tahlequah, Oklahoma
Primary URL: http://mappingtahlequahhistory.org/#
Primary URL Description: This is the link to the workshop program and schedule.

Mapping Tahlequah History and Cherokee Language Workshop November 2021 (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: Mapping Tahlequah History and Cherokee Language Workshop November 2021
Abstract: For this Mapping Tahlequah History Workshop (11/21/21), Drs. Farina King and John McIntosh presented to a public forum virtually with Ia Bull and Justin McBride about Cherokee language and mapping local history. We engaged in conversations about the possibilities of using the project to support Cherokee language revitalization and learning.
Author: Farina King
Author: Ia Bull
Author: Justin McBride
Author: John McIntosh
Date: 11/21/2021
Location: Tahlequah, Oklahoma

Mapping Tahlequah History for NSU Community and Collaboration Day August 2021 (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: Mapping Tahlequah History for NSU Community and Collaboration Day August 2021
Abstract: This is a presentation open to public but especially catered to faculty and staff of Northeastern State University during the NSU Community & Collaboration Day (8/18/21), providing examples and dialogue about how to apply Mapping Tahlequah History in college classrooms and community engagement.
Author: Farina King
Author: John McIntosh
Date: 8/18/2021
Location: Tahlequah, Oklahoma

Mapping Tahlequah History April 2021 Workshop (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: Mapping Tahlequah History April 2021 Workshop
Abstract: In this public forum and workshop, Mapping Tahlequah History project team members introduce themselves and project and ways to become involved. The workshop was held virtually and addressed ideas and conversations about community engagement and feedback regarding the project,
Author: Farina King
Author: John McIntosh
Author: Tiffanie Hardbarger
Author: Justin McBride
Date: 4/22/2021
Location: Tahlequah, Oklahoma

Colonial Bordering of Indigenous Spaces: Mapping Indigenous Stories (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Colonial Bordering of Indigenous Spaces: Mapping Indigenous Stories
Author: Farina King
Author: Dave Corcoran
Author: Justin McBride
Author: Joseph Cloud
Abstract: The session at the 2023 American Indian Studies Conference at the Arizona State University recognized how maps have been used as tools of colonialism to draw and enforce boundaries and claims that have historically dispossessed Native American and Indigenous peoples, silencing their stories. By highlighting the Mapping Tahlequah History project, the panelists asserted that Indigenous peoples have always mapped their own spaces through ways and practices, including storytelling and language, that have both changed and continued over time. Faculty panelist brought three NSU students to the conference in collaboration with NSU's Center for Tribal Studies.
Date: 2/3/23

A map-centric citizen scholar workshop (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: A map-centric citizen scholar workshop
Abstract: This was a public workshop organized and funded by the Mapping Tahlequah History project consisting of four sessions. The first session provided an overview of the Mapping Tahlequah History project. The second session focused on visits to local cultural institutions. The third session focused on how to be citizen scholars and the final session was a presentation by Dr. Elizabeth Rule on her work and experiences with an online mapping project "Indigenous DC".
Author: Dave Corcoran
Author: Farina King
Author: Joseph Cloud
Author: John McIntosh
Date: 4/10/23
Location: Northeastern State University

Mapping Tahlequah History A Collaboration to Learn and Teach about Cherokee Places in Northeastern Oklahoma (Article)
Title: Mapping Tahlequah History A Collaboration to Learn and Teach about Cherokee Places in Northeastern Oklahoma
Author: Dave Corocan
Author: Farina King
Author: Justin McBride
Author: John McIntosh
Abstract: Abstract: Mapping Tahlequah History (MTH) is a mapping project wherein students work with community to create narratives that help the public to better understand the layers of history that surround the diverse populations of Tahlequah and the surrounding interrelated regions of Green Country in northeastern Oklahoma, known as the reservation land of the Cherokee Nation and the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokees. Spaces within this land have found themselves at the center of contestation as different groups have claimed authority over them. Each group within these spaces offers unique narratives that they use to describe this part of what is now known as Oklahoma. This article features a roundtable that addresses how the mapping project came about and how its organizers have guided their students to address narratives from different peoples who have shaped and been shaped by the land. MTH pays particular attention to the people who inhabit Tahlequah, which is home to two Native Nations. This article introduces the past, present, and future of MTH as it develops to Indigenize mapping and collaboration among Native and non-Native communities and peoples.
Year: 2024
Primary URL: https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/23/article/919169/pdf
Primary URL Description: Link to a pdf of the article
Format: Journal
Publisher: Wicazo Sa Review, Volume 36, Number 2

Mapping Tahlequah History Presenting and Preserving Space (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: Mapping Tahlequah History Presenting and Preserving Space
Abstract: This workshop brought 14 teaching interns from HIST4023: Social Studies Methods for Secondary Teachers to the Tulsa Historical Society (THS). Organized in collaboration with the society’s Director of Education, Kasey Rhone, and Muskogee Public Schools teacher Diane Walker, the workshop featured: a guided tour of the THS archive and artifact vault with Archivist and Curator, Luke Williams; an overview of planning for an upcoming exhibit on indigenous spaces in Tulsa by Director of Exhibits Sophia Hurd; and a group discussion of current exhibits and resources that could be useful for classroom teachers.
Author: Dave Corcoran
Author: John McIntosh
Date: 11/6/2023
Location: Tulsa Historic Society, Tulsa OK

Conversation with Lelia Foley-Davis (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: Conversation with Lelia Foley-Davis
Abstract: In an effort to expand the oral history content on the Mapping Tahlequah History site, students in HIST3393: Historiography and Historical Research received training in oral history methodologies. In April 2024, two students interviewed Lelia Foley-Davis, the first-elected African American female mayor in the United States, at public event on campus. The conversation with the mayor was recorded by students from the Department of Communication and Media Studies, and the video was archived in the university’s Special Collections. Portions of the recording are available on the Mapping Tahlequah history website.
Author: Dave Corcoran
Author: Dana Eversol
Author: Cassie Freise
Date: 4/22/24
Location: Northeastern State University Campus

Oklahoma's All Black Towns: Then and Now (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: Oklahoma's All Black Towns: Then and Now
Abstract: NSU's Department of History held a reception to present student research on Oklahoma’s historically All Black Towns. The event was co-sponsored by Mapping Tahlequah History. Student research was conducted in Dr. Lindsay Silver's Oklahoma History & Government course, and their resulting then/now posters were displayed in the department suite and uploaded to the Mapping Tahlequah History site. With the addition of this content, the site continues to expand and diversify – reflecting the complex histories that define the region and its spaces.
Author: Dave Corcoran
Author: Lindsey Silver
Date: 2/7/24
Location: Northeastern State Campus

Building a Map-Centric History Website with User Contributed Content (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Building a Map-Centric History Website with User Contributed Content
Author: John McIntosh
Author: Dave Corcoran
Abstract: This presentation at the Visions Conference documented, goals challenges and the process of designing and constructing the Mapping Tahlequah History website.
Date: 4/1/2023
Conference Name: 2023 Visions Conference, Northeastern State University, 4/1/23

Tulsa Race Massacre Exhibit (Exhibition)
Title: Tulsa Race Massacre Exhibit
Curator: Tulsa Historical Society
Curator: Dave Corcoran
Curator: Kasey Rhone
Abstract: The Mapping Tahlequah History collaborated with the Department of History to host a traveling exhibit of the Tulsa Race Massacre on campus. Loaned by the Tulsa Historical Society, the exhibit was housed in the department suite for the full Fall 2023 semester. Over 50 students, faculty and community members attended an opening reception in August, and many more students visited the exhibit throughout the semester as part of course assignments developed by their history professors.
Year: 2020

Mvskoke Nation Workshop (Conference/Institute/Seminar)
Title: Mvskoke Nation Workshop
Author: Jack Reavis
Author: Don Fixico
Author: Michelle Martin
Abstract: In October 2023, 14 students in Dr. Martin’s Public History course participated in a day-long workshop/seminar at various sites in the Mvskoke Nation. At the Mvskoke Council House, students learned from about history and governance from leaders of the nation. The event featured a guest lecture by Native scholar Dr. Don Fixico, from the University of Arizona.
Date Range: October 2023
Location: Mvskoke Nation, Oklahoma

Cherokee History and Cultural Resources for Secondary Educators (Course or Curricular Material)
Title: Cherokee History and Cultural Resources for Secondary Educators
Author: Dave Corcoran
Abstract: Recently declared social studies education majors participated in workshop that explore Cherokee historic sites in Tahlequah. The student participants were students in Dr. Corcoran’s Social Studies Experience course. The tour, which followed a route that students first mapped on the Mapping Tahlequah History site, highlighted Cherokee cultural resources that are accessible for these future classroom social studies teachers.
Year: 2023
Audience: Undergraduate

Presenting Complex Topics in Classrooms (Conference/Institute/Seminar)
Title: Presenting Complex Topics in Classrooms
Author: Dave Corcoran
Abstract: Social studies education majors visited cultural sites in Tulsa – the urban center of Northeast Oklahoma. Students visited the Tulsa Historical Society, the Woody Guthrie Center, and the John Hope Franklin Reconciliation Park. Discussions featured the education directors at each site and students as future teachers considered the ways that complex historical topics (the Tulsa Race Massacre, Dustbowl migration, and class disparities in an oil economy) are presented in exhibits.
Date Range: October 2023

Oklahoma Governance and Native Hisory (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: Oklahoma Governance and Native Hisory
Abstract: Students, both undergraduate and graduate, participated in a day-long excursion to the state capital, Oklahoma City. Sponsored by the Department of Geography and Political Science, 16 students attended presentations at the First Americans Museum and State Capitol building. Native art, history and culture were the focus of the presentations, and students experienced Native cuisine for lunch. It was the first visit to the state capital for several of the students.
Author: First Americans Museum
Author: Oklahoma State Capital Architect
Author: John McIntosh
Author: Dave Corcoran
Author: Christopher Weaver
Date: 10/06/2023
Location: Oklahoma City

Regional Resources in Public History and Geography (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: Regional Resources in Public History and Geography
Abstract: Students enrolled in HIST3101, a class that explores public history resources in Northeast Oklahoma, participated in three presentations at regional sites that explored geography and culture in the region. At the Fort Gibson Lake, Dr. john McIntosh presented on the region’s water resources. After touring Taft, one of Oklahoma’s historically All-Black Towns, students visited the MLK Center in Muskogee where they met with Lelia Foley-Davis, the former mayor of Taft. Representative of the Muskogee City Council also spoke with the students and explained the role of the MLK center in the local community.
Author: John McIntosh
Author: Dave Corcoran
Date: 11/09/2023
Location: Muskogee, Taft and Fort Gibson - Oklahoma

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