Oklahoma State Names

Oklahoma Nicknames and Resident's Name

Great Plains

• Sooner State

• Boomer's Paradise

• Land of the Red Man

Sooner State

In 1889, the Indian Territory was opened to settlers. Thousands of people lined up on the border and, when the signal was given, they raced into the territory to claim their land. Some people went in early to claim their land. They became known as Sooners.

Boomer's Paradise

Settlers who waited for the boom of a cannon to stake their claim during the Land Run of 1889, which opened Oklahoma Territory to settlement.

Origin of Oklahoma State Name

From two Choctaw Indian words meaning "red people”

Oklahoma is a word that was made up by the native American missionary Allen Wright. He combined two Choctaw words, "ukla" meaning person and "humá" meaning red to form the word that first appears in a 1866 Choctaw treaty. Oklahoma means "red person."

Native America: Oklahoma has the largest Native American population of any other state. Many of the 250,000 American Indians living in the state are descended from 67 tribes who inhabited Indian Territory. tribal headquarters for 39 tribes are in Oklahoma.

Oklahoma Postal Code

OK

Oklahoma Resident's Name

Oklahoman