Oklahoma City bombing

the Will Rogers Memorial Museum here in Claremore. This site is considered significant because it is Oklahoma’s tribute to one of their own who always considered Oklahoma as his home, no matter how much fame he acquired. Will Rogers is also buried at the memorial along with his wife and three of his four children. If I was an Oklahoma History teacher in a secondary school, I would use this site as a field trip. This site would be beneficial while lecturing over a number of things, for example;…

Kiowas Group By: Tytiana Torrance 12/18/17 “A long time ago, this land belonged to our fathers, but when I go to the river. I see camps of soldiers here on its bank. These soldiers cut down my timber, they kill my buffalo, and when I see that, my heart feels like bursting, I feel sorry.” During this time the Kiowas was located around the Texas panhandle.Westward expansion was when 7 million Americans settlers would move westward trying to secure lands then prosper Native Americans homes.…

How is England treating you? How are the kids? Well I hope they are well, and hope you are too. I really want to go and visit you all soon, maybe you can plan a trip to come down here, or even better I can go to England, I’ve always wanted to see what it’s like to live there, but anyways I am doing just fine, I just got married to a wonderful man named James Williams. But enough about me, I want to tell you everything that is happening in Texas. Well Texas has just left the union, and about 76…

Christopher Columbus landed in the new world in 1492, he discovered a group of peoples and named them Indians. The Natives seemed to be uncivilized and lack humanism, often thought to be savages. However, the English were the real savages in their crusade to inflict their religion on anyone who wasnt English. Indians were unevolved compared to the mighty English. At this point Native Americans have yet to discover the horse. Due to the primal behaviors of the Indians, hunting and farming was…

effects. The Trail of Tears was trail that consisted of a 1,000 miles that the Native Americans were forced to march on. The trail passes through the present day states of Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, and Tennessee. Can people visit the Trail of Tears? Yes, there are places set up for visiting the Trail of Tears. People can see campsites, some of the gravesites, forts such as Fort Hall, or there even…

On November 2, 2016, I, Deputy John Arnold, went to Canyon Road Baptist Church at 8550 South 49th West Avenue in Creek County, Oklahoma where Deputy Brandan Welsh was completing a stolen vehicle report. Upon my arrival the victim had already left. Deputy Welsh stated the victim arrived at the church at approximately 6:15 P.M. and at approximately 7:15 P.M. when he went to leave church, he discovered his 2007 Silver Cadillac STS sedan missing from the church parking lot. While Deputy Welsh was…

Indian conflict played a significant role in the founding of the United States, starting almost immediately after Christopher Columbus’s landing in the Americas. When the Spanish settlers arrived in the “new land”, they brought crops, livestock, and advancements in weaponry from their homes; this increased violence between tribes and brought new diseases/invasive species to the Native’s land. Along with bringing physical representation of Europe, the Spanish brought religion, offering…

The Trail of Tears Introduction The Trail of Tears was a 1000-2000 mile journey that five tribes had to walk in order to get to their designated land that Andrew Jackson called “Indian Territory.” The Cherokees, Choctaws, Chickasaws, Creeks, and Seminoles, were forced out of their homelands, not given any other option but to leave, or be killed trying to stay in their home where you made memories with families and friends. The trail was where thousands of people died from horrible sicknesses,…

In chapter nine of Main Street Oklahoma: Stories of twentieth Century America, the chapter explains the many economic efforts that were put in to assisting the Five Tribes during the Great Depression. The Office of Indian Affairs implemented many programs designed to assist and provide jobs to Native American men and women, but the Office of Indian Affairs ended up not adequately addressing the needs of Native Americans under while under their control, but it also showed the poor and serious…

“I Grew Up Here” Boley is a town in Okfuskee County. Oklahoma, United States. The population was 1,184 at the 2010 census, a gain of 5.2 percent from 1,126 in 2000. Boley was established in 1903 as a predominantly Black pioneer town with Native American ancestry among its citizens. The Boley Public School District is one of the smallest public school districts in the state of Oklahoma. For the most recent data available, it tied with Sweetwater for the smallest high school with 15 students.…