Tuskahoma, OK

Tuskahoma is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in northern Pushmataha County, Oklahoma, United States, four miles east of Clayton. The 2020 census counted 102 residents. Tuskahoma was the former seat of the Choctaw Nation government prior to Oklahoma statehood. A United States Post Office was established at Tushka Homma, Indian Territory on February 27, 1885. The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma holds its annual Labor Day Festival in Tuskahoma on the grounds of the Capitol building. The short version is that Tuskahoma carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Tuskahoma: its past remains attached to the places people use now. On October 28, 1891, the spelling changed to Tushkahomma. The Kiamichi River valley stretches to the east and west of the community. Tuskahoma includes the nation's first capital after the Trail.