Gloria Dulan-Wilson Blog: REMEMBERING THE OKLAHOMA RUIN OF 1889
By Gloria Dulan-Wilson
Hello All:
There has been something weighing heavy on my consciousness over the past several days - especially leading up to, and on April 22 - and I just had to deal with it before going forward to other matters.
Most of the US celebrates April 22 as Earth Day - and there are a whole slew of activities that have been invented to reinforce this. And that's wonderful, well and good.
However, in Oklahoma April 22 has a more ominous meaning: it was the date of the infamous OKLAHOMA RUIN - known to the meanstream as the Oklahoma Run - the biggest landgrab in the history of the US, where millions of families Black and Indian (Native American to the PCs) were forcibly removed for their homes so that they could be taken over and settled by jealous whites who had already ruined the other land they touched.
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