All tagged preserving history

Cowboys and Indians Today

Sara Stratton
book review

Tammie’s Destiny, the latest volume of my series, Once Upon a Time in the Texas Panhandle, is a love story. It follows the seemingly impossible romance between a Comanche Apache young lady and a West Texas cowboy in the 1950s. Tammie is a reservation Native struggling to support her family by trick riding in rodeos throughout New Mexico. Grant is the pampered son of one of the wealthiest cattlemen of the Texas Panhandle. Both her people and his family oppose their relationship. In Texas, it is illegal. In New Mexico, it goes against both Indigenous and Spanish cultures. But they have Destiny on their side.

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Apologize & Recognizing the Wrong

Sara Stratton
historical fiction, being an author

It is inconceivable to me that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott would do what California Gov. Gavin Newsom just did: issue by executive order an official apology on behalf of the citizens of California for a history of “violence, maltreatment and neglect” against Native Americans. (Los Angeles Times, June 19, 2019.) It is also inconceivable to me that the Amarillo Globe-News would do what the Los Angeles Times just did: publish an editorial challenging the City Council to likewise issue an apology for its complicity in the genocide to which Gov. Newsom refers in the text of his apology. (Los Angeles Times, June 21, 2019.)

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