Upcoming Events

Please Note:
​Visitors will be required to wear face coverings indoors
​during tours and in-person events until further notice.
Please see descriptions below for event venue.

The Chilocco History Project: A Century of Stories from a Federal Native American Boarding School

Saturday, October 23, 2021 
​4:00 pm via Zoom 

​Chilocco Indian Agricultural School is located in north central Oklahoma and operated from 1884 -1980 as one of a handful of federal off-reservation Indian boarding schools in the United States. Thousands of students passed through the school's iconic entryway arch during its nearly century-long existence. Even today, Chilocco continues to be a powerful site for memory for its remaining alumni from over 127 tribes, Native peoples directly or indirectly impacted by its history, and scholars and students throughout the world who seek to understand its role within the larger context of U.S. Indian boarding schools. 

Dr. Julie Pearson-Little Thunder, Dr. Lisa Lynn Brooks, and Sarah Milligan will share their experience working on the Chilocco History Project a three-year collaborative agreement between the Oklahoma Oral History Research Program (OOHRP) at Oklahoma State University in conjunction with the Chilocco National Alumni Association (CNAA), an organization made up of former students and staff of Chilocco Indian Agricultural School, which hosts annual reunion which has taken place since 1894. During this discussion, presenters will discuss the development of the history project, which documented over 40 oral history interviews with living alumni and staff, shared thousands of images digitized from the CNAA archives, developed a documentary, and supported the development of K-12 curriculum to bring these archives into the classroom, which can be found online: https://chilocco.library.okstate.edu

Join Via Zoom at https://bit.ly/3AejSoa 
Meeting ID: 841 3966 7905
Passcode: 459398

Pre-registration Not Required


Photo on the left: One of the abandoned buildings at Chilocco Indian Agricultural School, a school for Native Americans that operated from 1884 to 1980 located approximately 15 miles north of Ponca City, Oklahoma. By ReservoirHill or Hugh Pickens - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=12242150

African Ancestry: Trace Your DNA, Find Your Roots

Sunday, October 24, 2021
4:00 pm, In-person (limited capacity)or via Zoom 

​In partnership with the Greater Trenton branch of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), the Trent House Association is sponsoring an information session on African Ancestry, a DNA test that can trace an individual's maternal family line by country and ethnic group for 2,000 years. 

This information session is free but registration is required. Individuals may participate in-person at the William Trent House Visitor Center up to the space capacity or viz Zoom. If you attend in-person, please remember that face coverings are required indoors. Zoom attendees will be sent the link via email in advance of the event.

Register via Eventbrite at https://bit.ly/3BLiuuL.