Well back SoM family. This week we are skipping over Kansas for the week and moving to Oklahoma. But first it is Celina's birthday!!! To help celebrate Celina is hoping that we can donate to some wonderful causes to support PRIDE month and Black Lives Matter!!! We also are providing a list of educational books, and documentaries to watch. I know at this time not everyone has funds to donate but we all can take the time to educate ourselves. Also if you are not registered to vote for the up coming election we have provided a link. Please register to vote. Not everyone has this right and so those of us that do need to use our power to make changes and this is one way that we can do it. Thank you all for listening and celebrating this wonderful date in history that gave us one of my bestfriends, Celina Cooper!!!
The Trevor Project https://give.thetrevorproject.org/give/63307/#!/donation/checkout?c_src=pride2020&c_src2=lightbox2
Know Your Rights Camp
Book List
Documentaries to Watch
Register to Vote
Amber's story:
When oil was discovered in Osage County in the late 1800's, it was on the land that had been purchased by the Osage Indian tribe as their reservation. When the United States decided they wanted to make Oklahoma a state, the Osage people had more say than other tribes as they owned their land. So when land was allocated they got to keep all of theirs and each member got 657 acres. This would lead to the Osage tribe being the wealthiest group of people in the world by 1920 as oil prices skyrocketed. Of course the US government couldn't leave the Osage tribe alone they had to enforce laws so that they wouldn't have control over their money. The government decided that all Osage tribal members needed guardians over the money. This step would lead to abuses of power as well as a number of murders.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osage_Nation
https://blog.nmai.si.edu/main/2011/03/the-osage-murders-oil-wealth-betrayal-and-the-fbis-first-big-case.html#:~:text=Anna Brown, a wealthy Osage,remote ravine in Osage County.
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Celina's story:
History had all but erased the Tulsa Race Riots, school children were not taught about this tragedy. We have to asks ourselves why something so monumental and terrible would be covered up and not talked about.
On May 30, 1921 Dick Rowland a young balck man needed to use the bathroom and he couldn't use just any bathroom as there were Jim Crow laws and segregation was the law. So he headed towards one he could use. When he got in the elevator a young white woman named Paige was the operator, now maybe he bumped into her or stepped on her foot but she yelped out and he was accused of assaulting her. However the Tulsa Tribune the next day on the front page stated that he had attempted to rape her. That evening a white mob went to the courthouse to take matters into their own hands. To help protect Dick Rowland a group of black men from the prosperous area of Greenwood came to offer support to the police. They were sent away. What would happen over the next twenty four hours, would leave a prosperous black community burned to the ground and an untold number of people dead.
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