. >> the muskogee creek nation c is okmulgee, oklahoma. about 100 miles east of oklahoma, city. -- oklahoma city. we visited there and asked the tribe's curator, john beaver, to give us a tour of their landmark council house. john: hi. welcome to the creek nation council house. the building you are in, this building here, served as the creek nation national capital from 1878 until 1907. prior to 1878, there was a two-story log cabin that sat on this site that served as our national capital building until this was constructed in 1878. one we actually were a removed tribe here to indian territory. we began the removals starting in 1829 and they culminated in our larger removal here to indian territory in the summer and fall months of 1836 with our arrival 1836, and throughout january of 1837, when we arrived at port gibson in indian territory. for about 20 years or so, beginning at about 1840, prior to settling here, we met at the grand council of our tribal towns until 1861. 1861 was the arrival of the civil war in the united states, and af

tim: for muskogee. i grew up loving merle haggard as well.na, my stepdad drove 19 miller when i was a kid. i was five and six years old and he drew drove in 19 miller. i 18 wheeler. i spent a lot of time there with an eight track player and listening to merle haggard. all of these great country singers. george jones and that is my education and hundred music. i come by it pretty honestly. nunnally does does riding in the truck and hearing the songs but as a jukeboxes, and truck stops at four in the morning and places like that i grew up with that is part of my dna. my mom tells my first memory, noty my first memory, my mom tells me my first introduction to music, she worked at a bus stop cafeteria in louisiana before she met my step dad when she was a young single mom and as as a playpen right by the jukebox. i would sit in that playpen everyday all day while she worked and listen to the jukebox. >> faith once to keep you in a playpen. [laughing] >> some kind of pen. if don't know if it's a playpen. >> let's see if we can do okie. give me oki

thomas coburn was born in casper wyoming march 14, and graduated from muskogee high school in 1966 and 1968 he married in 1967 lyss oklahoma carolyn. they had three daughters and nine grandchildren. at oklahoma state university dr. coburn was an honor student in president of the student council graduating in 1970 with a bachelor's degree in accounting. after the family business he worked as he was admitted in medical school in the university of oklahoma and received his medical degree with honors and interned at saint anthony's hospital in oklahoma city in 1986 he founded the muskogee family medical practice which is still in operation today. his victory over melanoma is a young man inspiredan him to bece a physician. he stated he wanted to give back because he had been given to prevent forcefully that battle with melanoma when he was a young man was not his last battle of cancer but as a physician and his dedication to his patients was inexhaustible. over his career he delivered 4000 babies and saw 30 patients a day in his office projector his election the house of representatives in

there's no one like him in oklahoma where he was a simple country doctor from muskogee. he was a family doctor and delivered thousands of babies in northeastern oklahoma. i told him when he was running for the first time i said you won't have any problem i suggest get all the babies you've delivered bring their families along, it will be an overwhelming victory. but there was no one like him or he was a true fiscal conservative who say true to his purposes. he had the skills that made them arguably the most thoughtful advisor in the republican conference. doctors it -- it's part of their culture theyha advise people, people listen to them, and that is what tom is always in advisor to everyone. and every a policy decision he was a faithful steward of the taxpayers money, dedicated public servant of oklahoma. he had an impressive record of service in the house ofs representatives as well as serving in the senate with me. but nothing about that legacy, tom knew what mattered in life. what mattered in life was family, carolyn and the three daughters. carolyn, i would suspect

medical degree with honors in 1983, interned at saint anthony's hospita hospitan 1986 he found a muskogee family is in practice which is still in operation today. the victory over melanoma is a a young man inspired him toma bece a physician. he stated he wanted to give back because he had been gettin get . the battle when he was a young man wasn't his last battle with cancer. as a physician, the dedication to his patients whose inexhaustible. over his career, he delivered 4,000 babies and would often see 30 patients a day. after his election in 1994, he would fly from washington, d.c. and home so they could continue to see patients on the weekend. a schedule that he maintained the entire six years he spent in the house. he was a doctor all the time. it wasn't uncommon for him to be in a conversation with someone who in the middle of the conversation he would ask how they are feeling because he picked up some in their demeanor that he thought was a little bit wrong. he was a deacon and a sunday school teacher and in all the stories i've told you if you are looking for an element of politic

. >> the muskogee creek nation c is okmulgee, oklahoma.sited there and asked the tribe's curator, john beaver, to give us a tour of their landmark council house. john: hi. welcome to the creek nation council house. the building you are in, this building here, served as the creek nation national capital from 1878 until 1907. prior to 1878, there was a two-story log cabin that sat on this site that served as our national capital building until this was constructed in 1878.

keep in mind it's not just our own national history with a history of the muskogee creek people who have been forcibly relocated and made all sorts of promises and had them not for the paper they were written on. it's an opportunity for the supreme court actually reverse patto actuallyreverse that for e and issue an opinion that treats the promises as worth something more than the paper that they are written on and i hope that is what the court decides on. >> thank you very much for that. >> please tell the viewers why you believe congress did intend to disestablished the reservation and therefore for the purposes ofhi this case the can be prosecuted as a member of the tribe for crimes committed under exclusive federal jurisdiction. >> thank you. and thanks, everyone, for listening. i think it boils down to this. you are someone that believes the force removal and trail of tears is one of the first things that has ever been done and t ty believe they should live up to their words and you want to see justice done because that was not as if the 1890s and because they worked with the tribes

attempt to preserve their independence, they convened a constitutional convention of their own in muskogee, oklahoma to create the state of sequoia. they sent the draft constitution to washington. present roosevelt rejected it, frankly, on the grounds that if thedmitted it sequoia and oklahoma territory as a state, that would give extra electoral votes in the upcoming presidential election to the democrats, who were predicted to dominate the parties. so he forcibly crammed them together. the population, it is worth noting at the time, of each of the territories it was more than half a million. collectively, they were 1.4 million people, which does not sound like much until you realize that five years later new mexico and arizona were each entered into the union with half or a third of the number of people in just the indian territory. so at the time it was seen as a ridiculous crowding of people in order to avoid adverse electoral consequences. and the sequoia participants in the oklahoma constitutional convention went in a desperate attempt to take control of the thing, to attempt to pres

i should certainly note that the poet laureate of the united states is a citizen of the muskogee nation in oklahoma. there are other writers, sherman alexi, louise urge ridge, a young man named tommy orange, who just wrote a brilliant book called -- there there." scott -- their contribution to the arts of the united states is quite remarkable. that's one of the things we tried to get across at this museum with our programming. and, you know, they are at once distinctly native, but at the same time they are very american, and that is the point, that native americans are americans, and that americans really cannot escape the indigenous contributions to this country. >> a viewer from ohio brings up a topic that is very much in the cultural discussion. from clark county, ohio, saying the mascot at schools here are ridiculously in error -- a chief in full headdress is called a warrior. chiefs are represented as red, white, and blue figures. it is a flagrant disregard of cultural differences. there are four schools in this county with the same clipart images as warrior, chief, and braves. the

interned at saint anthony's hospital in oklahoma city and in 1986 he founded the muskogee family medical practice which is still in operation today. hissing victory over -- his victory over melanoma as a young man inspired him to become a physician. he stated he wanted to give back because he had been given to. unfortunately that battle with melanoma when he was a young man was not his last battle with cancer. as a physician, his dedication to his patients was inexhaustible. over his career he delivered 4,000 babies and would often see 30 patients a day in his office. after his election to the house of representatives in 1994, he would fly from washington d.c., every week he'd fly home so that he could continue to see his patients on weekends, a schedule he maintained for the entire six years he spent in the house. he was a doctor all the time. he it was not uncommon for him o be in a conversation with someone who right in the middle of the conversation he would ask them how they're feeling because he picked up something in their demeanor that he thought was a little bit wrong. dr. cobur

there was no one like him in oklahoma where he was a simple country doctor from muskogee. he was a family doctor who delivered thousands of babies in northeastern oklahoma. i told him when he was first running -- running for the first time, you don't have any problem. all you have to do is get all the babies you delivered and have them bring their families along. that will be an overwhelming victory. but there was no one like him where he was a true fiscal conservative who stayed true to his purposes. he had the skills that made him arguably the most thoughtful advisor in the republican conference. i think this is somewhat characteristic of doctors. doctors are -- it's part of their culture. they advise people. people listen to them. and that's what tom -- tom was always an advisor to everyone. in every policy decision, tom sought to be a faithful steward of the taxpayers' money and a dedicated public servant to oklahoma. he had an impressive record of service in the house of representatives as well as serving in the senate with me. but nothing about that legacy would have