Wewoka is a city in Seminole County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 3,271 at the 2020 census. It is the county chair of Seminole County.

Founded by a freedman, John Coheia, and Black Seminoles in January, 1849, Wewoka is the capital of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma.

Wewoka’s archives begins following Freedman John Horse, who was also called Gopher John. In the spring of 1849, Horse and a organization of Black Seminoles founded a settlement close modern-day Wewoka. Seeking safety and autonomy from the Creek Nation, they standard a community located at the falls of a small stream, lying in the fruitful lands amid the North and South Canadian Rivers. The steady hurry of water higher than the falls gave rise to the name We-Wo-Ka – meaning “Barking Water” in the Mvskoke (Seminole) language. Other historians tell he named the settlement Wewokea after Osceola’s second wife who was of both Seminole and African ancestry.

In autumn of 1849, Horse and Seminole chief Wild Cat led Seminole families into Mexico to avoid the attempts of slavers to skirmish families and capture people of African descent. The Mexican executive offered Wild Cat, Horse and new Seminoles home in Mexico if they could rid the house of renegades who were terrorizing Mexican citizens. Wild Cat was the next-door hereditary chief of the Seminole Nation but the dealing out appointed its first chief John Jumper instead. The descendants of Wildcat and his band were split for a grow old between Wewoka, Texas, and Mexico until 1918.