Cherokee is common in Tahlequah but English is dominant even there. This accent ranges from Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and into Texas. The South Midlands accent is more common. Lodging, rental cars, fuel, and restaurants are lower in cost than nearly anywhere else in the US. The cost of living is among the lowest in the US and such includes the cost of tourist-related activities. Oklahoma is most known to the outside world as the site of the tragic Oklahoma City Bombing.
There are people alive today in Oklahoma that remember it as a frontier. Thirty-nine tribes and Indian nations have their headquarters in Oklahoma. 'okla' means people and 'humma' meaning red, so Oklahoma literally means 'red people'.
Oklahoma's name is taken from two Choctaw words. In addition, the Five Civilized Tribes were relocated from the southeastern United States. In the 1830s Oklahoma was the end of The Trail of Tears and over 16,000 Cherokee Indian people were forced to move from their eastern homes by the United States government and were relocated to Indian Territory, now Oklahoma. Oklahoma has a rich Native American past.
