Indian Museum celebrates 80 years
“A museum is to educate first, then to preserve articles of historic value, and lastly, to display them”, so said The Ponca City News in 1961 in reference to the Ponca City Indian Museum.
This three-fold mission has guided the museum, now located at Marland’s Grand Home, for eight decades.
E.W. Marland, Marland Oil founder, had a visionary dream for Ponca City to have an Indian Museum. In 1926,…