18 Jul Genealogist for hie- July 18, 2020
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- 2 Some Americans chose not to wear masks during the 1918 pandemic. That hotbed of conservatism, known as San Francisco, was the home of the Anti-Mask League.
- 3 The Supreme Court ruled that most of Eastern Oklahoma fall within the Creek Indian Reservation.
- 4 The discovery I mentioned above made me curious to see if U.S. President Millard Fillmore had an outdoor statue?
- 5 Do you have a slice of extinct DNA?
- 6 So if Columbus didn’t discover America, who did? Did the discovery occur almost 6,000 years ago?
Some Americans chose not to wear masks during the 1918 pandemic. That hotbed of conservatism, known as San Francisco, was the home of the Anti-Mask League.
Read in The Hill: https://apple.news/AHmPA5ysQTkawWQn8QXsA3g.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Mask_League_of_San_Francisco
The Supreme Court ruled that most of Eastern Oklahoma fall within the Creek Indian Reservation.
Coincidentally, my mom was cleaning out some old files and found my grandfather’s deed to his Oklahoma property, and the Creek tribe sold the land to the original deed holders in 1852, so the heirs and modern-day landowners are not at risk of their land ending up in a court battle.
Their deed was signed by Millard Fillmore, President of the United States. His last political act was to run for office in 1856 was for the anti-slavery Know-Nothing Party.
The Supreme Court ruled that eastern Oklahoma falls within the Muscogee (Creek) Indian Reservation, enforcing 19th-century treaties the U.S. made with the tribe.
Read in The Wall Street Journal: https://apple.news/AtqFpTld3RZiR6tVoxalhcQ
The discovery I mentioned above made me curious to see if U.S. President Millard Fillmore had an outdoor statue?
It turns out they are planning to build him one, as you can read in the link below. It seems like these are perilous times for outdoor statues. At least by sitting down, he will not have far to topple.
Do you have a slice of extinct DNA?
Study Finds DNA Of Native Canadians Who Disappeared 200 Years Ago In A Tennessee Man
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