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The Early Days of Anadarko

Description: Article traces the history of the city of Anadarko, which grew out of the Wichita Agency and attracted numerous religious denominations, who built churches and schools there. Sara Brown Mitchell describes the town in its early days and its people.
Date: Winter 1950
Creator: Mitchell, Sara Brown

[Photograph 2012.201.B0249.0190]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Carolyn Crumm, the state's 4-H girl health champion, hefts a holiday centerpiece just before the opening Thanksgiving day banquet of the first annual Oklahoma 4-H club congress."
Date: November 23, 1950
Creator: Killian, Thomas F.

Wichita-Kiowa Relations and the 1874 Outbreak

Description: Article discusses the ethnocentrism that can occur between feuding tribes through the example of Outbreak of 1874, an uprising of Kiowas, and its recounting by an elderly Wichita woman. Karl Schmitt examines the old prejudices that still seem to exist between the two tribes, and whether or not these biases distort the telling of events.
Date: Summer 1950
Creator: Schmitt, Karl
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