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Paul, check out what I found. It's a little before your time, but I thought it was a cool little piece of history.
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You're welcome Paul. It is not a terribly long booklet, if you'd like I can scan the whole thing and make a pdf of it.
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I never knew the derivation of the nickname Sooner.
The influx of the Sooners doesn't sound good for the Native population.
I can't say I would be proud of that name if I were a resident of OK.
You could make a point of saying most of us are Illegal Immigrants.
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Boomers and Sooners were both reprehensible groups of people, which has always made me wonder why OU selected both of those names for themselves. One of the reasons why the unassigned lands were opened for US settlers was because the gov't had too hard of a time keeping people from squatting.
I won't go so far as to say white folks are illegal immigrants. But, I might say that we Natives were a little too welcoming, sometimes.
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Continuing on, the City is noted as having 250,000 and now it has over 700,000. Not as big of a leap as Norman, but still pretty impressive.
I like how the zoo enclosures are described as being built to resemble the animals natural habitats. And, then there is Monkey Island.
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The very interesting final scene in Mel Gibson's "Apocalypto".
In the early sixteenth century, a small group of "Maya" see strange vessels in the harbor near their village. Small boats are bringing "Spanish" to the shore.
Some of the Maya walk toward the Spanish landing party.
Some race back into the jungle.
Excellent! One of the best films I've ever seen.
Tom M.
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Apocalypto is a vastly underrated film.
The very interesting final scene in Mel Gibson's "Apocalypto".
In the early sixteenth century, a small group of "Maya" see strange vessels in the harbor near their village. Small boats are bringing "Spanish" to the shore.
Some of the Maya walk toward the Spanish landing party.
Some race back into the jungle.
Excellent! One of the best films I've ever seen.
Tom M.
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The Lenape (Delaware) have a very interesting history that encompasses westward expansion from the first European settlements in the 1600s up through the Texas Revolution.
Originally they were part of the powerful Iroquois Confederation but English encroachment of their lands continuously forced them westward. By the time of the French and Indian War they were in the Ohio river valley. During the Revolution some Lenape sided with the British, some with the Americans. After the war those who sided with the British were given reservation lands on Canada. Those who sided with the Americans were forced to cede their lands by the early 1800s and move further west. Eventually, many settled in north central Texas around the Red River where they were in the 1820s. They were peaceful towards the Mexicans and the Caddo, and traded (with the Caddo) with the Wichita, Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache. After the Texas Revolution they and the Caddo who lived south of the Red River were forced to move north of the Red River (Texas's second president was virulently anti-Indian). Their tribal headquarters is just a half an hour or so north of me, in the area they have occupied since the 1840s.