#okla

[hannahbunny]

This goes for many northern civilizations too. Despite being pressed to the edge of extinction by colonial brutality, they still survive, and they aren't an ancient mystery.

Taos Pueblo was a central point of trade for the southwest well into the 19th century, and the people who lived there then still live there today. Over a dozen pueblos are still populated by Puebloans today, and the people who live in them can trace their ancestry to many of the abandoned pueblos that dot the region. 'Ancient' Puebloans aren't all that ancient, and aren't the mystery so many people make them out to be.

Cahokia was the largest city north of Mexico, a vibrant center of trade in the midwest built around a massive mound, founded in the 9th century. It was the same size as London in the 12th century- and it may have declined in the 14th century, but the people who lived there still exist in the form of the Peoria Tribe which is headquartered in Miami, Oklahoma today. There may not be 'Cahokians' anymore, but the people didn't vanish. Their culture just grew into something new, like every culture in the cycle of civilizations does.

The Five Tribes (Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muscogee, and Seminole) had towns of thousands that dotted the entire southeastern United States, built around mounds like Cahokia's. Mississippian civilization, commonly called the mound-builders, was vibrant and flourishing from the 9th to 17th century, with hundreds of towns with widespread trade networks and large scale agriculture. Their towns had planned streets, residential and public subdivisions, bureaucratic chiefdoms, and organized militaries.

And then colonizers decided they wanted that land. The Five Tribes were forced west to Oklahoma in the 1830s-1840s. But the people still exist. You can study the Cherokee language at university. You can get arrested by Seminole Lighthorse Police on I-40. You can visit a Muscogee art exhibition in Tulsa. You can hear Choctaw stories about mounds almost 2000 years old, built by their ancestors. The mound-builders are still here, they aren't some ancient mystery. They were just forced to leave their homes.

When one thinks about "ancient" Native American civilizations and ruins... the thing is that... most of them, they weren't ancient. The Inca were not fully conquered by the Spanish until 1572... for reference, the Mona Lisa was painted in 1502 and Martin Luther made the 95 Theses in 1517.. the "ancient" Aztec Empire was younger than the university of Oxford founded in the 11th century, Montezuma lived at the same time than Leonardo Da Vinci... There are castles that are younger than Machu Picchu, those cities were inhabited by millions just a few centuries ago, and some (Cuzco, México), many actually, are still inhabited today. People speak about the Ancient Maya as if it was some mysterious civilization that was lost, and while it was past its prime at the time of European conquest, the Maya still had city-states and were living in the same areas they live today.

There are still millions of people, right now, who speak Quechua, Nahuatl, and Maya in all their dialects, and I'm just talking about the three most well-known civilizations here... there are millions of Native Americans who still speak their languages and practice their culture and beliefs alive, both thriving and struggling today.

Talking about the "Ancient Inca" or "Ancient Aztecs" makes as much sense as talking about the "Ancient Dutch" or the "Ancient Swedes", and it's another way of erasing them, saying that they just aren't around anymore just like say the Sumerians, or that they just weren't relevant to world history. They were contemporaries to modernity and they're still alive today.

You can talk about the Ancient Olmecs or Ancient Chavín though. Because the Inca and the Aztecs are relatively "modern" but their cultures were just the latest from a cycle of civilizations stretching millenia before Christ.

[bergsmotiv]

Located in southwestern Oklahoma, The Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge has protected habitats since 1901. The refuge hosts a great diversity of plant, birds, fish, reptiles, amphibians and assorted mammals. Its area of undisturbed mixed grass prairie make it an important conservation area. The Wichitas are approximately 500 million years old.

[okieapache70]

#okiegirl #oklahomasky #oklahomasunrise #godscountry #sunrise #okieforever #okieatheart #myheartsinoklahoma #photooftheday

[hannahbunny]

behold, the strange and mysterious water park of tulsa. the oklahoman government forces their citizens to smile for photos as they slide down the slides, and only the wealthy elites who have ties to governor kevin stitt's family are allowed access. poor families are only allowed to swim in the local river, which is routinely poisoned to keep them weak and unable to fight back.

i saw this headline

and decided to look up pictures of this allegedly creepy water park

it’s a fucking water park. these pictures could be in any country in the world. fuck are you talking about, the washington post?

[s-s-okla]

[otterpiastri]

Oscar and his former race engineer, Antoine Okla. The fact that Antonie also works at McLaren as a tyre performance engineer 😊

[vote-democrat-president-congress]

“McVeigh, who was a member of the K.K.K. and harbored a deep resentment of women, hoped that blowing up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building would inspire an army of followers to make war on the government.”

[princemick]

Mick visits prema -- Bahrain GP 2023

[oscar-piastri]

#WHAT WE* DESERVED

*kyle and i

[tigerdrachin]

Tex/Cal/homa on M3 please ^^

(Tex in the middle??)

:D

ofc

tex im the middle as requested :3

I really like this one

[princemick-archive]

Bahrain 2020

[petit-papillion]

I mean if the prema tp himself is saying no one said that I find more believable than whatever Karun is saying

Not trying to defend Karun Chandhok, or discrediting Guillaume Capietto who was Charles's race engineer, and not Oscar's.

All I'm pointing out is that it seems like Guillaume interpreted Chandhok's remarks to mean Charles's race engineer, while Chandhok said "engineers" which could mean a variety of people working in the team. Not sure Guillaume would know whether Chandhok had spoken to any of the engineers and what they had told him. It could've been a casual conversation, not an official interview. If true, it's someone's opinion and they're entitled to it. If not, by all means, call out Chandhok for spreading lies and misinformation.

Oscar's race engineer Antoine Okla wasn't even working for Prema when Charles was there:

Screenshot: Divebomb Motorsport

[visenyaism]

Ur pepaw sounds awesome

when my mom was pregnant with my and my brother she asked my dad’s parents what they wanted to be called and instead of a normal answer my papaw was immediately like the children will call me PATRIARCH. so willingness to defect to the DPRK and other anti-authority tendencies aside he was not in fact very cool

[princemick]

OLLIE -- sunday. race , 2023 Azerbaijan GP

[chet-ho7mgren]

POOKIE IS HOME ❣️

[tigerdrachin]

Writing is fun :)

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