The Creek indians originally lived in the Georgia (state)|Georgia area. In 1830 Andrew Jackson moved them to Northeastern Oklahoma. The Creek named their new towns after their old ones. Most people are not sure, but Broken Arrow probably came from a town back in Georgia so named because the people would break bamboo in twain in order to make arrows. Or so the theory goes. This was similar to how European immigrants named cities in the United States "Bristol," "Dublin," and "New York." http://wikitravel.org/en/Broken Arrow