Coweta is a city in Wagoner County, Oklahoma, United States, a suburb of Tulsa.

[4] Part of the Creek Nation in Indian Territory before Oklahoma became a U.S. state, the town was first settled in 1840.

Coweta was named after a Lower Creek town on the Chattahoochee River in southwestern Georgia.

In 1843, Robert Loughridge, a Presbyterian minister, arrived in the area and established a mission, named "Koweta".

Loughridge left Koweta in 1850 to supervise the newly completed Tullahassee Mission School.

Both schools closed in 1861 at the outbreak of the American Civil War, when missionaries left the Territory.

[5] In 1867 after the Civil War, the Creek Indians adopted a constitution related to the model of the United States.

[6] As a result of negotiations with the congressionally appointed Dawes Commission, regarding the allotment of tribal communal lands in 1897–1898, the Creek courts’ jurisdiction was turned over to the federal government.

Notable events in 1903 included the arrival of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad in Coweta; founding of the community's first newspaper, The Courier; construction of the first public school for whites; and installation of a telephone line.

The tribal school system was funded from federal annuities paid following Creek removal to Indian Territory.