The
Ottawa Tribe of Oklahoma is one of four
federally recognized Native American tribes of
Odawa people in the United States. Its ancestors had migrated into Michigan and Ohio in the 18th century. In the late 1830s they were removed to west of the Mississippi River, first to
Iowa, then to
Kansas in what was then
Indian Territory. In 1867 they sold their land to purchase territory in what became Oklahoma, then primarily settled by Native Americans.