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SAPELE FASHION+DESIGN is located on "The Main Street of America" east of Clinton, Oklahoma. 

THE INTERSECTION OF PEOPLE, PLACE, AND HISTORY.

​With historic Route 66 Highway to our north and Turtle Creek to our south, we sit on the land known as the Red Wheat Allotment.
An Executive Order of President U.S. Grant established the Cheyenne and Arapaho Reservation in western Oklahoma in 1869. In 1887 Congress passed the General Allotment Act, which divided the Reservation into one-square-mile sections of land. These were subdivided into 160-acre quarter sections for allotment to individuals of the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes. The remaining land was opened to non-Indian settlers on April 19, 1892 with the Cheyenne and Arapaho Land Run. 
​SW ¼, Section 18, Township 12… Red Wheat Allotment
A Cheyenne Indian woman whose name translated from Cheyenne to English as “Red Wheat” selected a parcel of land along Turtle Creek as her allotment in 1892. The term “Red Wheat” is not of the Cheyenne culture, but is associated with Mennonite immigrants from Russia who introduced Red Turkey Winter Wheat to Oklahoma. The Mennonites, who were among the first to do educational work with the Cheyenne and Arapaho people, were translating the Indian names to English when the allotments were recorded. The Cheyenne woman Red Wheat generously deeded 20 acres of her allotment to establish the Koinonia Mennonite Church, dedicated in 1898. Red Wheat’s allotment was later partitioned for the route of a railroad and for one of the nation’s principal east-west highways, Route 66.
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