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Sasakwa is a town in southeastern Seminole County, Oklahoma, on State Highway 56 about 13 miles south of Wewoka, the county seat.

Sasakwa's name comes from the Seminole word meaning 'wild goose,' given to the trading post established there by Seminole Governor John F. Brown.

The original Sasakwa stood west of the present townsite, where Governor Brown ran a trading post, a cotton gin and a 16-room mansion where he famously fed vagrants and the poor.

Sasakwa was the home of Seminole chiefs John Jumper and John F. Brown, and a post office was established there on January 14, 1880.

The Sasakwa Female Academy educated Seminole girls at the original settlement from 1880 to 1892; the town later moved to its present site by the railroad station.

In 1917 hundreds of men gathered on a farm near Sasakwa to organize resistance to the World War I draft, in the episode known as the Green Corn Rebellion.

Sasakwa boomed with the Seminole oil field in the 1920s, peaking at 781 residents in the 1930 census, up from 237 at statehood in 1907.

The Alice Brown House in Sasakwa is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

Sasakwa counted exactly 150 people in both the 2000 and 2010 censuses, but fell to 80 residents in the 2020 census.

The entire town of Sasakwa covers only about 0.2 square miles (0.52 km2), all land.