About The Murrow Home

The Murrow Indian Children Home was established by Rev. Joseph Samuel Murrow soon after the Civil War. In 1919 and 1920 considerable financial donations were given and lands purchased near Bacone College for the Murrow Home. The ultimate goals of the home are to meet the educational, spiritual and emotional needs of the Indian children residing in the cottages. Christianity gave many of Oklahoma's Indian people a way to accommodate the changing social and cultural contours of their world, and in doing so to maintain an important sense of ethnic identity and pride. Baptists were at the forefront of groups evangelizing the Indian tribes.

The Children living at the Murrow Home are removed from their biological homes by the local Indian tribal court or the local department of children services because their homes have become emotionally and physically unhealthy. They are able to reside at the Murrow home until they graduate from high school, are reunited with their biological families or are adopted.  The goal of the Murrow Home is to provide a Christian “home like” atmosphere while the children deal with the temporary forced separation from biological family members.