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Oklahoma was the last state in the nation to legalize tattooing in 2006. Before then, some residents traveled to surrounding states to get tattooed or set up shop. But why did Oklahoma ban the practice in the early ‘60s?
Jeri Redcorn is still making her mark 30 years after she revived her tribe's pottery traditions Brandy McDonnell, Oklahoman © The Oklahoman File Caddo potter Jeri Redcorn is seen in her Norman home in 2009. Thirty years after she singlehandedly revived her tribe's lost pottery traditions, Caddo artist Jereldine "Jeri" Redcorn is still making her mark. The Oklahoma ceramics artist, 81, is creating a large-scale work for the interior of the long-awaited First Americans Museum, due to open Sept. 18 southeast of the Interstate-35/40 interchange near downtown Oklahoma City. C...
This little-known Native American society was once as powerful as the Aztecs and Incas Heide Brandes © Photograph by Mostardi Photography, Alamy Stock Photo Hazy sun over field of wild grass and cloudy blue at Spiro Mounds Archeological Site in Oklahoma, USA. Shell cups carved with mythical beings. Large effigy pipes. Beaded baskets. These are among the archaeologically significant objects excavated from the Spiro Mounds. Often overlooked, this Native American site in the midwestern U.S. is among the greatest sources of Mississippian Native American artifacts ever discovere...
On the Town: Exhibit illuminates life in times well before Columbus By: Lillie-Beth Brinkman The Journal Record February 23, 2021 Lillie-Beth Brinkman The new exhibit featuring the treasures found at the Spiro Mounds in eastern Oklahoma has opened at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum. You’ll have until May 9 to see it in Oklahoma City. Don’t miss it. “Spiro and the Mississippian World” is a fascinating look at the people who were here long before Columbus landed in the Americas and before English colonists settled here. That singular point of view was the focu...
Critical Thinking Difficult Issues: Unsafe Deposit Glenn Adamson National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, DC. What would burn, they burned. They crushed the rest underfoot. And when they were done, they blew up the whole thing with dynamite. The year was 1935. The setting, just a few miles outside of Spiro, Oklahoma. Centuries earlier, indigenous Americans had invested this site with great spiritual significance. On top of a sacred mound built by their own ancestors, they constructed a hollow chamber and placed within it a cache of valuable objects: textiles, engraved shells, copp...