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1/ The #McGirt ruling should not come as a surprise to any Tulsan who owns property south of 244. It's literally on page one of the abstract to your property. Full disclosure: this is the abstract to my property in Tulsa.
2/ Now, put aside your fear-mongering and ask yourself: what am I doing to honor the true history of this place? What can I do to promote justice and reconciliation?
And calm down Karen and Chad: ain't no one taking your stuff.
And calm down Karen and Chad: ain't no one taking your stuff.
3/ If this is a surprise to you (and it was to me about five years ago), part of your work should be questioning why the history of land theft has been so thoroughly repressed in Oklahoma. Rather than freaking out about Natives taking back your house or raising your taxes, think,
4/ Think about how you've benefited from a system that chopped land into privately held "allotments," dispossessed Natives and Black Freedmen and then paved the way for the "Oil Capital of the World." Yes, Karen, I am talking about white privilege.
5/ Also think about the throughlines connecting Native dispossession and the racist violence of the #TulsaRaceMassacre, namely: 1. Control of land and resources by a white elite, 2. The rewriting of history to make this white elitism seem like the natural order of things.
