Our Partners

Local Partnerships

Black Kettle National Grasslands

On June 23, 1960, the Black Kettle National Grasslands was officially designated. The National Grasslands contains 31,300 acres with 30,724 acres located near Cheyenne, Oklahoma, and the remaining 576 acres located near Canadian, Texas, and comprising the Lake Marvin Recreation Area. The McClellan Creek National Grassland contains 1.449 acres near Pampa, Texas, and includes the Lake McClellan Recreation Area.

Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes

The official website for the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes.

Western National Parks Association (WNPA)

In partnership with the National Park Service since 1938, Western National Parks Association advances education, interpretation, research, and community engagement to ensure national parks are increasingly valued by all.

WNPA manages the park store and has a variety of literature, apparel, collectibles, NPS themed objects, Junior Ranger items, and other popular souvenirs.

All products have been reviewed and approved by park staff to assure quality and variety.

Store Manager:
Cindy Clift
580-497-2742 x3012
[e-mail]

Metcalfe Museum (Durham, OK)

 

 

Associated National Park Sites

Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument

This area memorializes the U.S. Army's 7th Cavalry and the Sioux and Cheyenne in one of the Indians last armed efforts to preserve their way of life. Here on June 25 and 26 of 1876, 263 soldiers, including Lt. Col. George A. Custer and attached personnel of the U.S. Army, died fighting several thousand Lakota, and Cheyenne warriors.

Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site

The Sand Creek Massacre: profound, symbolic, spiritual, controversial, a site unlike any other in America. As 675 cavalrymen came around a prairie bend, the camps of Chief Black Kettle, White Antelope, and Left Hand lay in the valley before them. Chaotic, horrific, tumultuous, and bloody, the event of November 29, 1864 changed the course of history.

Fort Larned National Historic Site

Discover a complete and authentic army post from the 1860s-1870s! This well preserved fort on the Santa Fe Trail shares a tumultuous history of the Indian Wars era. The sandstone constructed buildings sheltered troops who were known as the Guardians of the Santa Fe Trail.

Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site

Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site features a reconstructed 1840s adobe fur trading post on the mountain branch of the Santa Fe Trail where trader, trappers, travelers, and the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes came together in peaceful terms for trade. Today, living historians recreate the sights, sounds, and smells of the past with guided tours, demonstrations and special events.

Fort Union National Monument

Exposed to the wind, within a sweeping valley of short grass prairie, amid the swales of the Santa Fe Trail, lie the territorial-style adobe remnants of the largest 19th century military fort in the region. For forty years, 1851-1891, Fort Union functioned as an agent of political and cultural change, whether desired or not, in New Mexico and throughout the Southwest.

Fort Laramie National Historic Site

Originally established as a private fur trading fort in 1834, Fort Laramie evolved into the largest and best known military post on the Northern Plains, before its abandonment in 1890. This "grand old post" witnessed the entire sweeping saga of America's western expansion and Indian resistance to encroachment on their territories.

 

Related Organizations

Oklahoma Historical Society

The Oklahoma Historical Society has been collecting, reserving, and sharing the history of Oklahoma and Its people since 1893.

Oklahoma Museum Association

Supporting Oklahoma museums in their effort to educate, inform and entertain.

Oklahoma Anthropological Society

Kansas Historical Society

Texas Historical Association

National Museum of the American Indian

Seventh United States Cavalry Association

Soldiers and Sailors Database