Ten years later, Baum published a children’s book titled The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, which was later adapted into one of the most famous films of all time.

In this lies future safety for our settlers and the soldiers who are under incompetent commands. Otherwise, we may expect future years to be as full of trouble with the redskins as those have been in the past.”

“The Pioneer has before declared that our only safety depends upon the total extirmination of the Indians. Having wronged them for centuries we had better, in order to protect our civilization follow it up by one more wrong and wipe these untamed and untamable creatures from the face of the earth.

If you knit these hats, please do so with love and in active solidarity with all immigrants and as part of fighting oppressive governments.

(My grandmother’s father was imprisoned by the British colonizers for ~7 years before her birth.)

"Pierce Township officials said the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) initially refused to clean up or test the dead birds and only agreed to help hours after being contacted by the WCPO 9 I-Team."

Only two of the 72 birds tested positive for bird flu because they only tested two birds. The rest are presumed positive as well.