Will Rogers Beaded The Freedmen of Oklahoma were

The Freedmen of Oklahoma were Black people

Hand-rolled and pit fired clay beads on wire with accent beads and Fall leaves pendant by Cherokee artist Phyllis Sixkiller

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By:  Durbin Feeling - linguist for the Cherokee Nation and a former Cherokee Language Instructor at the University of Oklahoma

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Will Rogers Beaded The Freedmen of Oklahoma wereOf the many books about Will Rogers, none can have the immediacy, firsthand knowledge, and personal perspective of this account by his wife, Bett Blake Rogers. Her story is of Will Rogers, from wayward youth to international celebrity. Will was born in 1879 in the Cherokee Nation of Indian Territory, near what is now Oolagah, and died in 1935 with Wiley Post in an airplane crash in Alaska. That period witnessed the passing of the frontier and the