#osawatomie

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Main Street, Osawatomie, Kansas.

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[metalheadsforblacklivesmatter]

Doctors with suspended licenses are allowed to work as medical professionals in state prisons.

And are often hired to work on reservations

This is why people of color don't fucking trust the medical field. What the fuck?

I don't have the fucking words.

-fae

[cartermagazine]

Today In History

Henry Ossawa Tanner, one of the most distinguished African-American artist of the nineteenth century was commemorated on a U.S. postage stamp on this date September 10, 1973.

Tanner spent most of his time in France after 1891, and achieved an international reputation largely through his religious paintings. Their deep spirituality reflects Tanner's upbringing as a minister's son.

Tanner was raised by his parents Reverend Benjamin Tucker Tanner, a future bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and Sarah Tanner, a woman who had escaped her enslavers via the Underground Railroad. Their son’s unusual middle name was derived from the name of the town Osawatomie, Kansas, where the abolitionist John Brown had initiated his antislavery campaign.

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[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Of all the questions which can come before this nation, short of the actual preservation of its existence in a great war, there is none which compares in importance with the great central task of leaving this land even a better land for our descendants than it is for us.

― Theodore Roosevelt, "The New Nationalism," a speech delivered in Osawatomie, Kansas, Aug 31, 1910

[Robert Scott Horton]

[alleannaharris]

Today's Black History Month illustration is of Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859-1937), the first Black painter to gain international acclaim for his depiction of landscapes and biblical themes.

Tanner was born in 1859 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was the first of nine children born to Sarah Elizabeth Miller, a formerly enslaved woman who escaped her enslavers via the Underground Railroad, and Benjamin Tucker Tanner, an African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Bishop.

His middle name comes from the town Osawatomie, Kansas, where the abolitionist John Brown started his anti-slavery campaign.

When Tanner was young, the Tanner family moved to Philadelphia. While in Philly, he attended the Robert Vaux School, one of the few Black schools that offered a liberal arts education. Despite his father objecting, Tanner decided he wanted to become a painter when he was 13. He began his art career in 1876 by painting harbour scenes, landscapes, and animals from the Philadelphia Zoo.

After self-study, in 1880, he enrolled at Philadelphia’s prestigious Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) where he was the only black student. Tanner made many connections among the artists and became a favorite of his teacher Thomas Eakins, one of the most important artists in American art history.

In 1888, Tanner secured a teaching position at Clark University in Atlanta with the help of Joseph C. Hartzell, a bishop from Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1890, Hartzell arranged an exhibition of Tanner’s works in Cincinnati, but when none of the paintings sold, Hartzell purchased Tanner’s entire collection.

The money from Hartzell’s purchase allowed Tanner to travel to Paris in 1891 and enroll at the Academy Julian. During this time, he made Paris home because he felt less affected by prejudice.

His greatest early work depicted Black people and tender moments. His most famous painting, “The Banjo Lesson” where an older man was teaching a young boy how to play the banjo was created while visiting family in Philly in 1893.

By 1894, his paintings were critically admired in the US and in Europe. In 1899, he created one of his most famous works, “Nicodemus Visiting Jesus,” which won PAFA’s Lippincott Prize in 1900. Through the rest of his life, he shifted focus to religious scenes and continued to receive praise and honors for his work.

He was named honorary chevalier of the Order of Legion Honor (France’s most distinguished award) in 1923. In 1927, Tanner was made a full academician of the National Academy of design, becoming the first Black person to receive the distinction.

After Tanner’s death in Paris in 1937, his name recognition declined until 1969 when the Smithsonian in Washington DC exhibited a few of his works. This exhibition was the first major solo exhibition of a Black artist in the United States.

In 1991, the Philadelphia Museum of Art assembled a touring exhibition of his work, sparking a new wave of interest.

Side note: The Tanner House is on 2908 W Diamond St in North Philadelphia (Strawberry Mansion). It gained recognition as a National Historic Landmark in 1976, but it fell into disrepair. They’re still trying to find a long-term non-profit steward, but the temporary local fiduciary is the Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia. To donate to the Tanner House Campaign, reach out to the Preservation Alliance.

I’ll be back on Monday with another illustration and story!

[pattern-recognition]

the worst thing about military eqirl psyops is that the popular ones aren’t even hot. You can’t stick a Belle Delphene clone in body armor without her looking more synthetic and antipathetic than a predator drone. The only type of woman in the military that’s hot would be some farm girl from like Osawatomie, Kansas, with a slightly weather beaten face that looks pulled from a century old monochrome photo of a dust bowl refugee

[queenlua]

Often the Dying Ask for a Map, by B.H. Fairchild

So when Locie, embraced by the great softness of bed #12, her late blizzard of silver hair fanning out beneath head and shoulders, asked for one in plaintive, almost desperate tones, I went out to my car and brought back my old, frayed road map of Kansas, and she followed the unfolding as if it in itself were a miracle, and then held it over her head, scanning the red interstates and blue country roads without apparent method or intent but smiling her morphined grand smile of awe and wonder within an air of childhood surprise and overwhelming acceptance. Because here it was—the way there, or here, or out or over or in, and here, sweetie, let me hold it for you, let me hold…and her trembling index finger knows no certain path but wanders through the Flint Hills toward Cottonwood Falls, then darts up toward Osawatomie, and she can smell the new wheat, its dark green deep as the jade of the necklace her husband brought home from the war in the Pacific. And now as she crosses the Kaw River, she sees a young woman standing beneath the moon in a wheatfield in Kansas and wondering, what will I be? Who will I marry? Where will we live? Will I have children? And if, at the end, I am lost, how will I find my way home?

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[newsdailynow]

Shakeup at Kansas mental hospital includes employee with prior sexual misconduct

By Newsdailynow -- UPDATED JULY 30, 2018

The interim superintendent of Osawatomie State Hospital has been replaced and a lower level employee with a record of sexual misconduct is on administrative leave after just three months on the job.

The interim superintendent of a Kansas mental hospital has been replaced and a lower level employee with a record of sexual misconduct is on administrative leave after just three months on the job. State officials are saying little about why Clayton Bledsoe is no longer acting as interim superintendent and Quincey Holloway is no longer risk manager at Osawatomie State Hospital. Angela de Rocha, a spokeswoman for the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services, said the agency can’t comment on personnel issues.

ut Holloway was hired in April despite losing his certificate to be a school social worker in New Jersey in 2013 after five female co-workers accused him of sexual harassment. Bledsoe was hired in May 2017 to be the hospital’s director of nursing and was appointed interim superintendent when the hospital’s previous leader, John Worley, left on April 13, 2018, according to a news release from KDADS.

Bledsoe didn’t respond to a phone message left Monday.

He’s been replaced as interim superintendent by Wes Cole, a former longtime Osawatomie staffer who also took the helm temporarily during a turbulent time for the hospital in 2011, following the firing of Greg Valentine. Reached by phone Monday, Cole said KDADS officials asked him to take over for about a month until they can hire a permanent replacement. “I started on Wednesday,” Cole said.

He said he had no information about what happened to Bledsoe. Cole also said he didn’t know Holloway, who de Rocha said started at Osawatomie on April 23, 2018. As risk manager, Holloway’s job was to prevent errors in medical care and protect the hospital from legal liability. But he was only on the job for three months.

Reached by phone Monday, Holloway said he had been placed on administrative leave. He wouldn’t say why. “I don’t have any comment,” Holloway said. “I’m going to let this play out.” Holloway lost his New Jersey school social worker certificate after five female coworkers testified to a state licensing board that he had sexually harassed them.

Holloway denied all of the allegations at the time and appealed the decision to the state commissioner of education and later to the New Jersey court system. But the courts ultimately upheld the revocation, saying it was “well-supported by the evidence.” According to court documents, four women testified under oath and subject to cross-examination that Holloway had made inappropriate comments to them in the workplace, including one who said “he told her he was aroused when he saw her wearing boots with heels and commented about the size of her breasts.” Another teacher testified that Holloway’s inappropriate comments escalated to physical assault, as he forced her into a faculty bathroom and exposed his penis.

“(The teacher) told him to ‘put it away’ and to stop,” court records say. “Holloway shut the lights again and left the room.” Holloway declined to comment on whether he had notified Kansas officials about the licensing case in New Jersey when he applied to work at Osawatomie. Osawatomie State Hospital is one of two state-run facilities for people in Kansas with severe mental illness. It serves the entire eastern part of the state; a facility in Larned serves the west.

Osawatomie recently emerged from a difficult period of operations. The 158-bed facility regained full federal certification in December, two years after inspectors cited it for a raft of safety concerns following the rape of a female employee by a patient.

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Little League World Series Power Surge Draws Drug Scrutiny

WILLIAMSPORT, Pennsylvania.  The Little League World Series began here last week, normally a feel-good break for sports fans turned off by big salaries earned by players on teams they root against.  “It’s great to see kids out in the fresh air,” says Mike Woblatz, father of 11-year-old Mike Jr., third baseman for the Osawatomie, Kansas team.  “I think there’s too much emphasis on the overemphasis…

[dennispartridge]

An Informal History of Osawatomie Kansas

“A Town Between Two Rivers” by Charles A. Knouse presents an informal history of the city’s founding, development, and significant events. This book, published as part of the Osage Valley Centennial in 1954, provides a comprehensive narrative based on documented history and personal accounts from residents. The narrative focuses solely on factual events, avoiding conclusions or…

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Streetart – Eye cough @ Osawatomie, Kansas, USA

Title: The Great Tree of Osawatomie Location: Osawatomie, Kansas, USA Artist: Alex Eickhoff aka Eye cough Year: 2023 Photo Credits: Eye cough USEFUL …Streetart – Eye cough @ Osawatomie, Kansas, USA

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Streetart by Eye cough @ Osawatomie, Kansas, USA

More pics at: https://barbarapicci.com/2023/12/04/streetart-eye-cough-osawatomie-kansas-usa/

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Emotional und erfüllend: Karawane folgt dem Potawatomi Trail of Death durch Kansas

Ohne es zu wissen, überquerte George Godfrey jeden Tag den Potawatomi Trail of Death auf seinem Weg zur Arbeit. Erst als seine Stammeszeitung einen Artikel über den Pfad veröffentlichte, erfuhr Godfrey zum ersten Mal von ihm und von seiner Nähe zu ihm. Heute ist Godfrey Präsident der Potawatomi Trail of Death Association, einer Gruppe, die den Pfad von 1838 erforscht, ihm ein Denkmal setzt und das Bewusstsein für ihn fördert. Im Jahr 1838 zwang die US-Miliz 859 Angehörige der Potawatomi-Nation, Indiana zu verlassen und in das Reservat im heutigen östlichen Kansas zu reisen. Während der 660 Meilen langen Reise, die vom 4. September bis zum 4. November stattfand, starben mehr als 40 Potawatomi - viele von ihnen waren Kinder. Diese Zwangsumsiedlung wurde als der Potawatomi Trail of Death bekannt.   Heute führt die Potawatomi Trail of Death Association alle fünf Jahre eine Karawane an, in der die Teilnehmer diesen Weg zurückverfolgen. Dieses Jahr nahmen etwa 30 Personen teil. Die Reise begann am Montag und endete am Samstag in der Nähe von Mound City. Godfrey gründete die Karawane 1988 zusammen mit Shirley Willard, und beide nehmen weiterhin an der Expedition teil. Godfrey, 80, ist ein Stammesmitglied der Citizen Potawatomi Nation. Willard, 86, ist Historikerin und lebt in Rochester, Indiana, in der Nähe des Beginns des Trail of Death. Willard und Godfrey schlossen sich 1988 zusammen, um die erste Reise zum 150. Jahrestag des Trail of Death zu organisieren. Willard sagte, dass die Karawane dazu beiträgt, die Geschichte zu bewahren, Freundschaften zu schließen und "die Potawatomi wissen zu lassen, dass wir uns wünschen, dass dies nie passiert wäre". "Ich glaube, Indiana wäre ein besserer Ort, wenn die Indianer nicht vertrieben worden wären", sagte Willard. "Wissen Sie, Indiana sollte das Land der Indianer sein, und dann haben sie sie vertrieben. Was haben sie sich dabei gedacht?" Am Samstagmittag versammelten sich die Teilnehmer zu einem von der Stadtverwaltung gesponserten Mittagessen in Osawatomie, der vorletzten Station ihrer Reise. Die Stadt Osawatomie hat ihren Namen vom Zusammenfluss zweier indianischer Stämme in der Gegend: der Osage und der Potawatomi. Alison Hamilton, die für die Historische Gesellschaft von Kansas arbeitet, sagte, dass die Potawatomi ursprünglich in Osawatomie untergebracht werden sollten, aber als sie ankamen, gab es die versprochenen Unterkünfte nicht. Sie wurden dann etwa 20 Meilen nach Süden zur Sugar Creek Mission gebracht, die heute St. Philippine Duchesne Memorial Park heißt und als letzte Station der Karawane dient. Chuck und Cindy Michalski waren in diesem Jahr zum ersten Mal Teilnehmer der Karawane. Sie leben in Lake Havasu City, Arizona, und sind nach Nord-Indiana gefahren, um an der Karawane teilzunehmen. Das Ehepaar sagte, sie hätten vor ein paar Jahren von der Karawane gehört und wussten, dass sie bei der nächsten Gelegenheit teilnehmen wollten. Cindy, die dem Stamm der Citizen Potawatomi Nation angehört, bezeichnete die Erfahrung als "sehr emotional und erfüllend" und wies auf die Bedeutung der Berichte aus erster Hand hin, die die Teilnehmer jeden Tag lesen. Wenn sie auf ihrer Reise an bestimmten Orten vorbeikamen, lasen die Teilnehmer Berichte über die Geschehnisse an diesem Punkt des Weges, wie z.B. die Zahl der neuen Todesfälle. Ein anderer Teilnehmer, Kevin Roberts, sagte, dass die Teilnahme an der Reise "dem, worüber man liest, wirklich eine greifbare, objektive Realität verleiht". "Wenn man diese Reise macht, weiß man, was die Menschen durchgemacht haben", sagte Roberts. "In den meisten Lagern ist jede Nacht jemand gestorben. Es wird einem bewusst, wenn man auf einer Markierung liest, dass wir mit 860 oder so angefangen haben und dass diese Zahl im Laufe unserer Reise, die 660 Meilen, immer kleiner wurde. Roberts, der auch Mitglied der Citizen Potawatomi Nation ist, sagte, dass es am Samstagmorgen einen ganz besonderen Moment gab. Als die Autokarawane durch Johnson County fuhr, flog ein Weißkopfseeadler über ihren Weg. Für Roberts war dies kein zufälliges Ereignis. Es war ein Zeichen eines heiligen Tieres in seiner Kultur. "Es schien, als wüsste der Adler Bescheid und wollte uns sagen: 'Ich sehe euch, und eure Vorfahren sehen euch und sind stolz auf euch'", sagte Roberts. Originalartikel Das könnte Sie auch interessieren     Read the full article

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The first ever #johnbrownhalfmarathon for @kcrunningco is in the books. Tough course, but another #halfmarathon in the books! #backofthepackpodcast #kchustleclub #kchustlerun #runnersofinstagram #running (at Osawatomie, Kansas) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpF8WquLT2g/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Residents of Osawatomie, Kansas recently celebrated a new addition to the town's landscape – a chivalrous wealth that was jovially stitched together by a group of local acid dealers.

The project, which was spearheaded by the Osawatomie Acid Dealer's Association, was organized in response to the town's need for more communal wealth. The dealers, using the funds gathered through their business, pooled together their resources to create a pool of money that would be used to fund community events and projects.

The dealers worked with local businesses to create the wealth and, with the help of volunteers, they spent months stitching together the wealth. The finished product is a bright red and yellow tapestry with intricate gold designs. It is said to be the largest tapestry of its kind in the United States.

The wealth, which is estimated to be worth over $100,000, was unveiled to the public at a special ceremony in the town square. It was met with applause from the crowd and was widely praised for its beauty and symbolism.

The dealers said that the project was their way of giving back to the community that had supported them for so long. They expressed their hope that the wealth would be used for good and that it would bring the people of Osawatomie closer together.

The wealth is now on display in the town's museum and is seen as a symbol of the town's commitment to communal support and success.