Since the 2000 national championship season, four different Oklahoma quarterbacks have been awarded the Heisman Trophy, college football’s most prestigious individual prize. In fact, Oklahoma players have won the last two Heisman: Baker Mayfield in 2017 and Kyler Murray last season. How many Heisman Trophy winners are from Oklahoma? seven […]
Colleges with the most NCAA championships Rank School Total titles 1 Stanford 123 2 UCLA 118 3 Southern California 107 4 Oklahoma State 52 What college has won the most national championships? 1. Yale — 18. Yale football has one of the most impressive resumes in the sport, with two […]
The Sooners have won 14 Big 12 conference titles, 8 regional championships, and five national championship titles (2014, a co-championship with Florida and in 2016, 2017, 2019 and 2022). When did the Sooners win a national championship? Throwback Tulsa: Sooners’ 2000 championship season began 21 years ago today. It has […]
3.62. Average GPA: 3.62 This makes University of Oklahoma (OU) Strongly Competitive for GPAs. (Most schools use a weighted GPA out of 4.0, though some report an unweighted GPA. With a GPA of 3.62, University of Oklahoma (OU) requires you to be above average in your high school class. What […]
Oklahoma fell one place to 47th overall among the 50 states and District of Columbia in Education’s Week’s annual rankings of education quality indicators. What is Oklahoma ranked in education? seventh least educated stateOklahoma ranked seventh least educated state in U.S. for 2021. Which state is #1 for education? Education […]
The tribal diet commonly consisted of foods that were either gathered, grown, or hunted. The three sisters – corn, beans, and squash – were grown. Wild greens, mushrooms, ramps, nuts, and berries were collected. Deer, bears, birds, native fish, squirrels, groundhogs, and rabbits were all hunted. What did the Indians […]
It abolished slavery in the new Arizona Territory, but did not abolish it in the portion that remained the New Mexico Territory. During the 1850s, Congress had resisted a demand for Arizona statehood because of a well-grounded fear that it would become a slave state. What states did not have […]
The Indians had all stepped into the bark which was to carry them across, but their dogs remained upon the bank. As soon as these animals perceived that their masters were finally leaving the shore, they set up a dismal howl, and, plunging all together into the icy waters of […]
About 2,500–6,000 died along the trail of tears. Approximately 5,000–6,000 Choctaws remained in Mississippi in 1831 after the initial removal efforts. How many soldiers were on the trail of tears? Washington, D.C., had decreed that they must be driven West and their lands given to the white man, and in […]
For those early black pioneers, the state’s policies appeared promising. California’s first constitution, adopted in 1849, dictated that: “Neither slavery, nor involuntary servitude, unless for the punishment of crimes, shall ever be tolerated in this State.” A year later, under the Compromise of 1850, California was When did slavery end […]
The Chickasaw Indians were a tribe of great hunters and warriors whose towns were located near the headwaters of the Tombigbee River in northeastern Mississippi, but who ranged far and wide over the whole Mississippi valley region. Where did the Chickasaw tribe live originally? Chickasaw, North American Indian tribe of […]
According to tribal traditions the Chickasaw and Choctaw were once one tribe; and the close similarity of their Muskogean languages seems to bear this out. The Chickasaw language was still spoken in the 1970’s. Are Choctaw and Chickasaw the same? Before the tribes of Chickasaw and Choctaw were two different […]
June 19, 1865. Juneteenth, which combines the words June and nineteenth, is an unofficial national holiday marking the day Major General Gordon Granger of the Union army read federal orders in the city of Galveston, Texas on June 19, 1865. The proclamation stated that all slaves in Texas were now […]
In 1856, the Chickasaws, in order to restore direct authority over their governmental affairs, separated from the Choctaws and formed their own government. Why was the Chickasaw removed? Hostility soon developed between the whites settling the frontier country and the tribes already there, such as ours. The thirst for land […]
More than 46,000 Native Americans were forced—sometimes by the U.S. military—to abandon their homes and relocate to “Indian Territory” that eventually became the state of Oklahoma. More than 4,000 died on the journey—of disease, starvation, and exposure to extreme weather. How many Cherokee died as a result of the Indian […]