Righting Historical Wrongs

Steve Russell
Lessons from History
8 min readJun 1, 2021

GREENWOOD, 1921. Wikimedia Commons

Today marks a century from a wrong that some of us would like to excavate from the memory hole, but the R word often impedes even a frank discussion.

A discussion about whether there was law in Oklahoma after it ceased being Indian Territory in 1907?

Steve Russell
Lessons from History

Enrolled Cherokee, 9th grade dropout, retired judge, associate professor emeritus, and (so far) cancer survivor. Memoir: Lighting the Fire (Miniver Press 2020)