Editing Oklahoma (section)

==Etymology==
The name ''Oklahoma'' comes from the [[Choctaw language]] phrase {{lang|cho|okla}}, 'people', and {{lang|cho|humma}}, translated as 'red'.<ref name=cno/><ref>{{Cite web|title=Choctaw Dictionary » Search Results » humma|url=https://www.webonary.org/byington-choctaw?s=humma&search=Search&key=&tax=-1&search_options_set=1&match_whole_words=1&displayAdvancedSearchName=0|access-date=2021-10-12|language=en-US}}</ref> [[Choctaw Nation]] Chief [[Allen Wright]] suggested the name in 1865 during [[Fort Smith Council|treaty negotiations]] with the [[Federal government of the United States|federal US government]] on the use of [[Indian Territory]]. He envisioned an [[Indian barrier state|all exclusive American Indian state]] controlled by the [[Bureau of Indian Affairs|United States bureau of Indian Affairs]]. A painting of the 1865 Council now hangs in the Oklahoma Senate.<ref>{{cite web|year=2006 |url=https://oksenate.gov/press-releases/painting-fort-smith-council-unveiled-capitol |title=Painting of Fort Smith Council Unveiled at Capitol |website=Oklahoma Senate |access-date=March 1, 2025}}</ref> ''Oklahoma'' later became the de facto name for [[Oklahoma Territory]], and it was officially approved in 1890, two years after that area was opened to [[American pioneer|American settlers]].<ref name="Oklahoma's Name">{{cite web|title=Chronicles of Oklahoma |first=Muriel |last=Wright |publisher=Oklahoma State University |date=June 1936 |url=http://digital.library.okstate.edu/Chronicles/v014/v014p156.html |access-date=July 31, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071013231154/http://digital.library.okstate.edu/Chronicles/v014/v014p156.html |archive-date=October 13, 2007 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | year=2007 | url=http://www.state.ok.us/osfdocs/stinfo2.html | title=Oklahoma State History and Information | website=A Look at Oklahoma | publisher=Oklahoma Department of Tourism and Recreation | access-date=June 7, 2006 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060729003635/http://www.state.ok.us/osfdocs/stinfo2.html | archive-date=July 29, 2006 | url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Merserve |first=John |year=1941 |url=http://digital.library.okstate.edu/chronicles/v019/v019p314.html |title=Chief Allen Wright |website=Chronicles of Oklahoma |access-date=June 7, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060507052851/http://digital.library.okstate.edu/chronicles/v019/v019p314.html |archive-date=May 7, 2006 }}</ref>