There have been just too many passing’s of late in Indian Country. I am reminded of how I felt when Vine Deloria and Wilma Mankiller walked on. Who will take up the mantle for these Native elders that served our communities and the nation so well? I was recently saddened to learn of Senator Inouye’sContinue reading “Thoughts on the Passing of Chickasaw Nation Ambassador Charles Blackwell”
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At Buffalo Bill’s Gravesite
As part of my Postcards from Indian Territory series, on November 5th, I published the story Buffalo Bill Visits Indian Territory. Here I speculated, that because I’d found a historic postcard from the 1920s of Buffalo Bill, that my great-grandparents, Eula and Frank Morris Jr., had been a fan and seen his show. Furthermore, IContinue reading “At Buffalo Bill’s Gravesite”
“Whether I love thee, ask this flower.”
In my second story in the Postcards from Indian Country Project, I’ll start at the beginning. As I said, I received a collection of postcards that belonged to and were saved by my great-grandmother. I’ve become absolutely entranced by these postcards. My great-grandmother is Eula Maulsey Holder Morris and these postcards were sent to herContinue reading ““Whether I love thee, ask this flower.””
Traci L. Morris 