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1880

Oklahoma's first college, Indian University (now Bacone College) began classes on February 9, 1880, with three students at "Jones Cottage," Tahlequah, Indian Territory.

1893

By 1893 there were 703 students in a system of one college and six preparatory schools in the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Seminole, Wichita, and Kiowa nations.

1907

At the turn of the twenty-first century the four-year liberal arts college had an enrollment of 841 and granted the first baccalaureate degrees since 1907.

1910

In 1910, it was renamed Bacone College, after its founder and first president.

1938

In 1938 Rockefeller Hall, known as "Old Rock," was dismantled.

1957

Coeryne Bode, "The Origin and Development of Bacone College" (M.A. thesis, University of Tulsa, 1957).

1967

Maurice C. Wright, Blood, Sweat, Prayers, Tears: A History of Bacone College (Muskogee, Okla.: Maurice C. Wright, 1967).

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