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Oklahoma’s Kate Barnard: an untold (until now) leader in Oklahoma and Indian Territories

Toni Morrison would have loved Kate Barnard’s story.  She was fascinated by Oklahoma history in her novel, Paradise. As you read this piece, can you see particular bits that Morrison would have liked? She received the nickname “St. Kate” by folks over a century ago, perhaps fitting of her Irish Catholic background. But today, I’d just…

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“The unambivalent bliss of going home to be at home–the ease of coming back to love begun.”
–Paradise (318)

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