This Land Press

WHAT CHEROKEE CAN BE: How David grapples with Goliath in a battle spanning two national capitals to define the identity of America’s second-largest tribe. By Marcos Barbery. PROMISED LAND: Oklahoma historian Hannibal B. Johnson reveals the roots of Oklahomans' continued struggles with race, place, and identity. FIRE BUILDING: James McGirk offers a portrait of the Cherokee as the tribe took on the strange and complex task of constitution-making. THE SILENCE TEACHES: Yousef Khanfar, an Oklahoma City photographer, takes his camera int...

We're taking a look back at the Tulsa Race Riots and the man allegedly at the center of all the turmoil. RETURN TO THE RIOT: What became of the boot black who found himself at the center of the Tulsa Race Riot? A trail gone cold. By Steve Gerkin. WATER DARLING: How one writer painted a portrait of the events of June 1, 1921, using fiction as the brush. By Evan Ramspott. SMOKE SIGNALS: A snapshot of Tulsa, rendered in snippets pulled from editions of the daily newspaper dated the week of the riot. By Brian Ted Jones. GAME-NIGHT ARMAG...

OPEN MIC: Poetic offerings from young minds and old souls in celebration of National Poetry Month. By Nick Weaver & Bryonia Liggins. HELLO, CHICKEN FRY: What’s next for a Tulsa culinary landmark? A forecast is rendered in towers of pie and breaded beef. By Claire Spears. OUT TO PASTURE: A trip to an auction house south of Tulsa off ers a peek behind the closed-doors passing of Oklahoma’s new horse slaughter legislation. By Jennie Lloyd. PLAY THE PONIE: A tour of the horse-meat food chain, from family pastures to foreign burger tast...

WILD BLUE YONDER: Artist James Turrell builds a temple out of Ozark sky on the grounds of a museum founded by Sam Walton’s only daughter. By Michael Mason. MOM(iddle)A(merica): A parking lot and an elevator ride are the gateway to the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, a study in mountains and architecture of the veil between nature and the not-so-natural. By Ariana Jakub. WHAT LIES BENEATH: How a WPA-era dinosaur dig is still articulating what we know about life in prehistoric Oklahoma. By Holly Wall. THE ILLUSION OF MICHELLE D...