I don't like humans very much if I'm honest. I see some ugliness in others only to be reminded that I probably also have the same ugliness somewhere in me only waiting to surface. But wonderful human stories like this one also remind me that I shouldn't give up on humans.
Yay Choctaw, my grandma was half Choctaw.
My grandma never knew her mother’s name because her dad never called her mother anything but squaw, which I think is tragic.
Apparently my great great grandmother’s mom hid to avoid the trail of tears because she was pregnant at the time.
They lived in Alabama and Mississippi.
Erected at Midleton, Co.Cork in 2017, this striking statue was made in stainless steel by sculptor Alex Pentek on commission by the officials of the town.