#oklahoma history

[mimi-0007]

Lucinda Davis (c. 1848-after 1937) was a slave who grew up in the Creek Indian culture. She spoke the Muskogee Creek language fluently. The main information source was from an interview in the summer of 1937, at which time she was guessed to be 89 years old. Lucinda's parents were owned by two different Creek Indians. Being enslaved so young without her parents, she never found out her birthplace, nor the time of her birth. Her mother was born free in African when she escaped her captors either by running away or buying back her freedom, the white enslaver, who was also the mother's rapist and father of Lucinda, sold their child to Tuskaya-hiniha. Lucinda was brought up in The way the Creeks treated slaves was considered a much different and kinder form of slavery than the way the white Americans, Cherokee, or Choctaw went about it. Families could work under different slave owners and did not have to live on the same property as whom they worked for. The slaves worked quite hard and were paid, but had to give most of their pay to their owners, being allowed to keep a small amount. Lucinda was treated as a family member and did her duties. Her responsibility was taking care of the baby, amongst being an extra hand for cleaning and cooking here and there. She was not beaten or disrespected. It was understood what was needed of her, and she followed along.

#black history #native american tribes #native #black tumblr #black history month #oklahoma history #black literature #american slavery #african slavery #black community #civil rights #native history #lucinda davis #black history is american history #american history

[personal-blog243]

Apparently there is a movie about this called “killers of the flower moon”. I haven’t seen it yet because it’s 3 1/2 HOURS long 🙄, but it’s very important to learn this history.

#indigenous lives matter #indigenous history #native lives matter #native american history #Oklahoma #Oklahoma history #osage murders #killers of the flower moon #brendan fraser #leonardo dicaprio #leo dicaprio #native rights #indigenous rights #anti racism

[dailyhistoryposts]

On This Day In History

May 31st, 1921: The Tulsa Race Massacre (the Black Wall Street massacre) takes place.

Mobs of White residents in Tulsa, Oklahoma attacked the center of Black financial success in the United States. While different sources give different numbers, it ended with at least 39 dead (but potentially as many as 300), 800 people admitted to hospitals, and 6,000 Black people interned.

Deliberate property damage left about 10,000 Black people homeless and with about $2.25 million in property damage (2021 equivalent is $34.18 million).

The violence was supposedly sudden and in reaction to a Black man shooting an elderly White man, however, it has since been proven that a conspiracy between the city and the White mob deliberately provoked an excuse for violence.

#history #world history #american history #tulsa race massacre #black history #tw racism #tw death #oklahoma history #racial violence #racism #tulsa #tulsa race riot #black wall street #american race relations #terrorism #racial terrorism

[emm-etc]

Oil Capital

#mine #school art #oil and gas #climate emergency #oklahoma #oklahoma history #roughneck #original art #artists on tumblr #queer artist #illustration

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“Indian Song Bird,” Owen Sound Sun Times. April 22, 1932. Page 5. ---- "LUBHANYA" which in Indian tongue means "song bird” a member of the Chickasaw tribe of Oklahoma pictured in front of the Berlin embassy during her recent visit. This Indian princess recently made her debut in Europe at a concert hold at the Beethoven auditorium and was acclaimed by the critics as the possessor of a fine contralto voice.

[AL: Some of this coverage is wrong - Lubhanya is a Hindi word, not a Chickasaw word, though it may also be badly mispelled. The story appears to be referring to Te Ata, or Mary Frances Thomson Fisher, an actress and singer from the Chickasaw Nation.]

#berlin #beethoven auditorium #singing performance #te ata #chickasaw nation #chickasaw #oklahoma history #european tour #indigenous people #american indians #weimar republic #weimarer republik

[arsenickool-aidforever]

Canyon Princess

#canyon Princess #national cowboy and wester heritage museum #oklahoma city #sculpture #cougar #mountain lion #oklahoma history

[ohhhdanigirl]

Quotes from the Historical Choctaw Records (#6?)

I've been transcribing all the personal correspondences of Greenwood McCurtain, three-time elected chief of the Choctaw Nation and "most successful Choctaw politician ever" according to a friend. Slowly working through these letters written in pencil in 1903 is pretty taxing on the eyes, but it's also some of the most fun language material I've seen in a long time.

Most of them are signed "chi̱ kana (your friend)," but A. H. Homer went a step further here and also dubbed himself "your Bro in christ."

#choctaw #native american #indigenous #history #indigenous history #linguistics #historical linguistics #american history #native american history #native history #oklahoma #oklahoma history

[keepersofnostalgia]

A couple of days ago, I shared a photo of a little girl—the daughter of Pomp Hall—sewing for the 4-H Club. In case you were curious, here are photos of her father and the rest of her family. Pomp Hall was one of Creek County, Oklahoma's most respected farmers. These photos are part of a series taken by Lee Russell in February of 1940.

📷 Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)

#Pomp Hall #Black history #oklahoma history #creek county ok #american history #1940s america #rural america #Instagram

[tvstvnvkke]

Tribal Names

I don’t think many people, even some native people, are aware that the legal names of many tribes are actually not from the tribe.

Often the names came about because colonizers would ask one tribe "hey, what do you call those people over there?". then they would assign the name given to that tribe. so often the names were descriptions from unrelated tribes, or in more extreme cases, insults.

The Muscogee tribe got pretty lucky since the legal name was "creek" and it came from a different tribe going "oh, those are the people near the creek". which, is accurate enough, most creek settlements were placed along creeks. a famous one that is related to the Muscogee is the name "Cherokee". "Cherokee" is a Muscogee word meaning something along the lines of "people who don’t speak our language". Even this is pretty light compared to some names. some official tribal names translate to phrases like "dog eaters" or "lazy people".

This is why it’s not uncommon for tribes to start using older names. Muscogee comes from the term for our people "Mvskoke", and the tribe has made efforts to distance itself from the name "Creek". Although it is likely still the name you’ll hear most often.

#muscogee #mvskoke #native blogs #native american #indigenous blog #indigenous #native girls #indigenous history #muskogee #cherokee #oklahoma #native americans #tribal names #tribes #north american history #creek tribe

[yeoldenews]

"An honest-to-goodness dollbaby."

(source: The Miami Daily Record-Herald, December 20, 1918.)

#'My Fried Santa Claus' #dear santa #history #kids #1910s #wwi #influenza pandemic #oklahoma #christmas #dang kids

[mimi-0007]

#black tumblr #black history #black literature #black excellence #black community #civil rights #black history is american history #blackexcellence365 #united states military #lieutenant #buffalo soldier #fort sill #oklahoma history #american history

[1900scartoons]

A Real Celebration

July 1, 1906

Wicks lit, the fireworks of Pure Food, Meat Inspection, Railroad Rate Regulation, Oklahoma Statehood, Canal Lock Type, and Adjournment, dance with Congress; the Immigration Bill and the Philippine Tariff Bill stand aside, crying and unlit.

The caption reads "Immigration Bill - ‘We don't seem to be in it.’ Philippine Tariff Bill - ‘Naw, we foreigners seem to be excluded.’"

Congress had managed to pass several bills at the end of its session, but not the two left out.

From Hennepin County Library

Original available at: https://digitalcollections.hclib.org/digital/collection/Bart/id/5931/rec/184

#Charles Bartholomew #political cartoon #United States Congress #panama canal #Railroads #pure food #Oklahoma History #statehood #immigration law #philippines #tariffs #independence day

[shadeslayer]

Page 14 of The Gayly Oklahoman (March 1, 1985 Issue)

My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys

by Keith Smith

Being Gay and Indian...Double Jeopardy

An Interview with Joe Dale Tate Nevaquaya

by Frank Parman

Shaffer, Ron; Hawkins, Don & Clark, Mark. The Gayly Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, March 1, 1985, newspaper (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc824353/)

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#queer history #lgbt history #lgbtq history #gay cowboy #queer cowboy #gay indian #2spirit #two spirit #anompolili #cowboys and indians eh... #oklahoma #oklahoma history #yes i know whole thing abt 2s and gay indian being different #but i tag it with 2s tags bc as a 2s gay indian #our historys are intertwined #kashoplili

[mermazeablaze]

I thought some of my Tumblr mutuals would be interested to see this article.

Viola Ford Fletcher, aged 109, just published a memoir 'Don't Let Them Bury My Story' about her experience during the Greenwood/Tulsa Massacre. It will be available for purchase August 15th.

"Her memoir, “Don’t Let Them Bury My Story,” is a call to action for readers to pursue truth, justice and reconciliation no matter how long it takes. Written with graphic details of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre that she witnessed at age seven, Fletcher said she hoped to preserve a narrative of events that was nearly lost to a lack of acknowledgement from mainstream historians and political leaders.

The questions I had then remain to this day,” Fletcher writes in the book. “How could you just give a mob of violent, crazed, racist people a bunch of deadly weapons and allow them — no, encourage them — to go out and kill innocent Black folks and demolish a whole community?”

“As it turns out, we were victims of a lie,” she writes.

Fletcher notes in her memoir just how much history she has lived through — from several virus outbreaks preceding the coronavirus pandemic, to the Great Depression of 1929 and the Great Recession of 2008 to every war and international conflict of the last seven decades. She has watched the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. lead the national Civil Rights Movement, seen the historic election of former President Barack Obama and witnessed the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement."

#Tulsa Race Massacre #Tulsa Race Riot #Greenwood #Black Wall Street #1921 #Oklahoma #Viola Ford Fletcher #Don't Let Them Bury My Story #Book #Memoir #Novel #Library #History #Black Lives Matter #BLM

[andoutofharm]

hozier performing butchered tongue at the choctaw theater in oklahoma (dedicated to the Choctaw people, 10/13/23)

(see this article for why this is such a significant dedication and performance of this song)

#i live in oklahoma. the indigenous history here and the atrocities against them is SUCH a huge part of this state #both its past and its present. #for hozier to perform this song for the first time in the US leg here and dedicate it to the Choctaw people the way he did #is hugely significant and really really means a lot. #hozier #butchered tongue #unreal unearth tour

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“First Photograph of Oklahoma Draft Rebellion!” San Bernardino News. August 14, 1917. --- Here is the first actual photograph received of the ‘draft rebellion’ in southeast Oklahoma, where hundreds of Indians, negros, and white tenant farmers took to the hills and wilds in an effort to evade army service. Picture shows eight draft rioters just brought in from the scene of a battle near Holdenville. Note carefully the types of men among the prisoners - the men who are leading this organized effort to defy the military army of Uncle Sam. Note, too, the ready rifles in the hands of prisoners.

[For more on the Green Corn Rebellion, see this mediocre, hostile Smithsonian piece, this somewhat better Jacobin piece, and this excellent local piece from We Never Forget.]

#world war 1 #green corn rebellion #oklahoma #oklahoma history #draft dodgers #resistance to conscription #conscription in the united states #mass resistance #popular resistance #military draft #socialists #american socialism