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[Photograph 2012.201.B0247.0494]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Donald Roller Wilson, left, Jane Hazelton and Sen. Kelly Haney discuss one of Wilson's oil paintings, "Waiting Outside by Our Home by the Pond for Bob, My Friend," featured in an art exhibit opening for patrons of the Oklahoma Art Center."
Date: March 14, 1989
Creator: Hoke, Doug
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0247.0503]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "State Sen. Enoch Kelly Haney, chairman of the Joint Legislative Committee on State-Tribal Relations, examines Christy Slimp's first-place winning poster in the 6 to 12-year-old category of the Oklahoma Indian Child Welfare Association's Child Abuse Prevention Poster Contest."
Date: October 3, 1989
Creator: Southerland, Paul
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0125.0096]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "A state prison parolee, who lost an appeal to keep his hair long for religious reasons while in prison, former a group Monday to help other Indian inmates who want to practice their religion behind bars."
Date: June 26, 1989
Creator: Southerland, Paul
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0405.0241]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Moore Indian education tutor Mary Beth Studebaker and Breque Parnell, 6, make "Mr. Mc-I," the symbol of multicultural involvement."
Date: September 8, 1989
Creator: Southerland, Paul B.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

"Die Stillen in Lande:" Mennonites in the Oklahoma Land Rushes

Description: Article relays the movement and history of Mennonite communities that took root in Western Oklahoma with the opening of the Unassigned Lands in 1889 as well as the Cherokee Outlet in 1893. Marvin E. Kroeker describes the motivations of these homesteaders and the lives of the prominent Mennonite families that founded these communities.
Date: Spring 1989
Creator: Kroeker, Marvin E., 1928-
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Old Baptist Mission and Evan Jones

Description: Article describes the work of Evan Jones at Old Baptist Mission in Oklahoma. Evan Jones was a minister to the Cherokees who opposed Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy as well as slavery, and whose translation work led to books of the bible and his own newspaper being printed in a written version of the Cherokee language.
Date: Summer 1989
Creator: Mahnken, Norbert R.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Fight for Survival: The Indian Response to the Boomer Movement

Description: Article describes the history of intrusion of white settlers in Indian Territory and the court case surrounding the Boomer movement of David L. Payne, who attempted to force the opening of the Unassigned Lands of Oklahoma in the late 1800s. Mary Jane Warde highlights the suffering of the Indian tribes living in the area whose rights were being challenged.
Date: Spring 1989
Creator: Warde, Mary Jane
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Voices from the Land Run of 1889

Description: Article describes the opening of Unassigned Lands in Oklahoma by the federal government, and the land run that followed in 1889 by pioneers hoping to score land to homestead. Brad Agnew includes documentation of personal accounts from those who participated or observed the event, and provides historical context for the motivations of settlers.
Date: Spring 1989
Creator: Agnew, Brad
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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