Oklahoma Historical Society

Later, he bought a quarter of a headright for $11,250.

By the 1980s, the brothers owned over 200,000 acres in Oklahoma and southern Kansas, according to the Oklahoma Historical Society.

Ford Drummond, one of the heirs to the land and son of Frederick Gentner, told Bloomberg that he and his cousins would like to return their headrights to the Osage Nation.

Around 43,000 acres of land previously owned by Chuck Drummond were shifted back to tribal hands in 2024.

They hide that history, though it should not be, because it doesn't mean that the descendants of those indigenous people are bad people or that they owe anybody anything whatsoever.

Just some tidbits of information I grabbed from the Oklahoma Historical Society on the issue of slavery.

In the 1830s, African American slavery was established in the Indian Territory, the region that would become Oklahoma.

By the late 18th century, when more than one half million Africans were enslaved in the South, the five Southern Indian societies of that region, Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole, had come to include both enslaved Blacks and small numbers of free African Americans.

So I think it's going to be used for a lot of new purposes and kind of repurpose this great old building that we're in.

But I think that we'll also see an uptick in our visitors, the state and tourism boards, local and Tulsa, as well as Oklahoma City and the state tourism, Oklahoma Music, the Oklahoma Historical Society, all the groups.

Right.

Arts Council, all of them, they're they're all going to help us, I think, and promote us a little bit further.