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Ancient Native American Trade: Cotton
May292014 One of my earliest memories was walking bare foot on the cool, muddy rows between tall stalks of cotton on our cotton farm in...
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Killing Lean Bear, Part 3
It was probably a peaceful, happy morning for the families of Black Kettle’s warriors who were off on a buffalo hunt. Black Kettle...
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Killing Lean Bear, Part 2
Lean Bear and the other Cheyenne chiefs came away from their meeting with President Lincoln in 1862 feeling good about the outcome. They...
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Killing Lean Bear, Part 1
It was while reading one of my favorite authors, Margaret Coel’s book “Killing Custer” that I was reminded of the killing of Chief Lean...
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Cherokee Fables: The Origin of Strawberries
When James Mooney, who worked for the Bureau of American Ethnology in the late 1800’s, lived with the Cherokee, he recorded many of their...