The Indian City USA Cultural Center, formerly known as Indian City USA, was an outdoor museum in

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. The center included reconstructions of American Indian houses and way of life in the United States. The Department of Anthropology from the

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supervised the construction of the housing units. Reconstructed dwellings represent many of the tribes from the

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and

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, including Caddo,

Southern Cheyenne The Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes are a united, federally recognized tribe of Southern Arapaho and Southern Cheyenne people in western Oklahoma. History The Cheyennes and Arapahos are two distinct tribes with distinct histories. The Cheyenne (Ts ...

, Wichita,

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, Navajo, and Apache. The citizens of Anadarko founded the museum in 1954. The museum is located on the site of a massacre of the

Tonkawa The Tonkawa are a Native American tribe indigenous to present-day Oklahoma. Their Tonkawa language, now extinct, is a linguistic isolate. Today, Tonkawa people are enrolled in the federally recognized Tonkawa Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma. ...

Indians during

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and other tribes. The land was formerly occupied by the

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, Apache, and Comanche Reservation. In addition to the outdoor displays, Indian City USA offered guided tours, Native dancing,

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s and crafts, and the Indian City Museum. It is near the location of the

Southern Plains Indian Museum Southern Plains Indian Museum is a Native American museum located in Anadarko, Oklahoma. It was opened in 1948 under a cooperative governing effort by the United States Department of the Interior and the Oklahoma state government. The museum feat ...

, the American Indian Hall of Fame, and the annual

American Indian Exposition The American Indian Exposition, held annually during the first full week in August at the Caddo County Fairgrounds in Anadarko, Oklahoma, is one of the oldest and largest intertribal gatherings in the United States. Sponsored by fifteen tribes ( Apa ...

,. The museum is currently owned by the

Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma Kiowa () people are a Native American tribe and an indigenous people of the Great Plains of the United States. They migrated southward from western Montana into the Rocky Mountains in Colorado in the 17th and 18th centuries,Pritzker 326 and ev ...

. According to the Leisure and Sports Review (LASR), the museum is closed. No website for the museum can be found.

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Indian City USA
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