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Bayfield, Colorado - Let us begin by wishing you all a "Happy Valentines Day" of Love and Peace throughout this Global World! We have not totaled the inches we have received up todate, but this weekend we received another 6 inches or more of accumulation. And it is still snowing on this Monday, February 13, 2012. 100 Years Ago Today February 13, 1912
America - What was happening in America and Ohio one hundred years ago today? According to The Democratic Banner, dated Tuesday, February 13, 1912, which sold for two cents, some of the front page headlines were: "Anti-Suffrage Fight Started, Chihuahua's Acting Governor Issues Proclamation Urges Rebels To Drop Arms, The Maine Floated, Roscoe School Teacher Defies Incendiaries, Young Lad Suicides, Let-up Promised on Frigid Weather, Seven People Killed In Railroad Accidents, Big Fire At Kent, Announces Candidacy. Wynnewood Chickasaw Nation's Dr. Wilson
Wynnewood, Oklahoma - This bit of history was taken from the History of Oklahoma, page 1343, by Joseph B. Thoburn and published in 1916. It concerns the pioneer Herbert Posten Wilson, M.D. Dacoma (OK) Pioneer - Albert Wesley Lewis
Dacoma, Oklahoma - Those living in the vicinity of Dacoma, Oklahoma might remember this pioneer lumber company business manager and treasurer, Albert Wesley Lewis. Albert was manager and treasurer of the Dacoma Lumber Company and of the Dacoma Grain Company, and was one of the most prominent. Role of Ghost Dance In Wounded Knee Massacre (1890)
America - Wikipedia says, "The Ghost Dance (Caddo: Nanissáanah, also called the Ghost Dance of 1890) was a new religious movement which was incorporated into numerous Native American belief systems. The traditional ritual used in the Ghost Dance, the circle dance, had been used by many Native Americans since prehistoric times." |
On This Day In History (13 February)
America - On February 13, 1935, Flemington, N.J., Feb. 18 - Bruno Richard Hauptmann was convicted of murder in the first degree at 10:45 o'clock tonight for the killing of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. at Hopewell on the night of March 1, 1932. He was sentenced to die in the electric chair at the State prison in Trenton some time during the week of March 18.
Go to article Cherokee Song - Wash Your Spirit Clean
America - There is a Native American (Cherokee) song that Native Americans sang to wash their spirits clean. We found the following video on YouTube concerning this song (Cherokee & English version), Wash Your Spirit Clean. Resolutions Adopted By Chiefs At Eufaula Convention - 1903
Eufaula, Oklahoma - The Daily Ardmoreite, Ardmore, Indian Territory, Sunday Morning, dated 24 May, 1903, had the following front page headline concerning "Resolutions Adopted" by the chiefs of the five civilized tribes at a convention at Eufaula, I.T., where plans were formulated for separate statehood for the Indian Territory, Independent of Oklahoma. Untold Truth Native Americans
America - Have you heard this untold truth about the Native Americans and their Chief Big Foot that were murdered at Wounded Knee Creek? Ah Nee Mah - Sun Circle (Ancient Voices)
America - Love this Native Spirit Ah Nee Mah! Love the sound of the wooden flute! I may not have any Native American bloodline in my ancestry, but it is in my heart and soul!
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NW Okie's Corner
Bayfield, Colorado - Does anyone out there have any additional information on an Alva pioneer that we featured in our in Vol. 10, Iss. 1, dated 2008-01-06, concerning Pioneer William Franklin Hatfield - Alva, OK? Pioneer Jerome Robert Gamble
Woods County, Oklahoma - Are there any descendants of this pioneer, Jerome Robert Gamble, out there online? The following information about this pioneer that settled in Woods county, Oklahoma Territory near Alva was taken from History of Oklahoma, page 1497, written by Joseph B. Thoburn. Keetoowah Cherokee People
Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma - Have you heard this Cherokee history of the Keetoowah Cherokee people? The Cherokee Indian tribe were powerful detached tribe of the Iroquoian family, formerly holding the whole mountain region of the south Alleghenies, in southwest Virginia, western North Carolina and South Carolina, north Georgia, east Tennessee, and northeast Alabama, and claiming even to the Ohio River and (referred to as the Eastern Cherokee). Red Bird Smith was the moving spirit of the Nighthawk branch of the Keetoowah organization of Full-blood Cherokees. Part 1 & 2 of their history is related below in these YouTube videos. Indian Removal Act of 1830 Andrew Jackson
America - It was in 1823 the Supreme Court handed down a decision which stated that Indians could occupy lands within the United States, but could not hold title to those lands. The Cherokee of Georgia instead of fighting took the government to court and the Supreme Court ruled that the Cherokee did not have to move, but President Andrew Jackson thought otherwise. What followed was the "Trail of Tears" as the Indians were moved westward to Arkansas and Indian Territory. |
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