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A New Day

A Bartlesville teenager confronts the uneven, ham-fisted methods bureaucrats use to skirt the issue of Indigenous People’s Day.

There Is No Tulsa Without Indigenous People

From One Fire

One man's years-long campaign championing civil rights within the Cherokee Nation.

Carrying For Each Other With LGBTQ+ Gun Clubs

"A man's rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box." —Frederick Douglass

The True Story of Tulsa’s Forgotten Antihero, Sadie James

And a walk downtown in search of her saloon, the Bucket of Blood

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Come Get Your AI Slop

My search for humanity at the Tulsa State Fair.

We’re Taking The Pickup To OKC!

Mark your calendars for October 24 for a day at the library.

What Happened To ‘The New Republicans’?

In 2013, This Land took a look at the state of conservatism in Oklahoma—today, it's the story of a path not taken.

It Was Full-On Pie Fervor At Tulsa’s First-Ever Pie Festival

Shortening crust vs. butter crust, bacon as a palate cleanser, and a day with Tulsa's most enthusiastic pie people at WOMPA

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He's not wrong.

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this is profound. of COURSE you'd send a carney to cover a state fair.
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