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Little Axe Intertribal Music

By Ledger Staff

Old School Wicket Tune By The Little Axe Singers....VINTAGE LITTLE AXE Little Axe-Intertribal -... »

Favorite Stuart Memories from Little Axe

By Ledger Staff

By Joy Stuart Nix, daughter of Sunny Stuart, youngest son of Elmer and Doxie Stuart Family has lived in Little Axe since around 1920-1930 Drawing water out of the well and drinking it from the old metal bucket and ladle. Using the ‘outhouse’; instead of indoor toilet and when the kids got together and added indoor plumbing. Visiting the dairy farm 2 miles away... »

Ash tanning deer hides

By Kispoko Thickie
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Ash tanned deer hide hand drum. Gaw Gaw Thway. Gaw gaw thway is the spirit bird that goes up and out the hole in the middle of the teepee during a peyote meeting. Absentee Shawnee Sacred Stories from a series My grandmother tanned hides. Every hunting season, I would have hunters save me the hides of the deer that they kill. Most will... »

Absentee Shawnee Sacred Stories

By Ledger Staff
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Kispoko Thickie is dying of cancer and wants to publish her family's sacred stories. first children's story This is just the beginning. We are, we always have been, and we always will be Kispoko Poshe, people of the medicine way. We were always a wandering people. We traveled in search of a place to be where there is plenty of water, trees, grass,... »

A Memory of Murray Humphreys

By Ledger Staff

Written by Irvin Owen - Owen was a prominent attorney in Shawnee - One of the smartest and most successful gangsters who ever lived is buried with his wife half way between Tecumseh and Norman in an above ground cement crypt. It’s a few hundred yards south of Highway 9, 2 miles inside of the Cleveland County line.... »

Local Author Likes Reaction to Book

By Ledger Staff

Little Axe High School English teacher, Roger Colby, is enjoying the success of his first book "The Transgression Box". "Apparently it is really catching on, and I'm glad it is, of course, but I am more excited about the reactions that people have been giving me," said Colby. "Those who get the satire are taking a close look at their lives... »

Little Axe Artist Featured at Sam Noble Museum

By Ledger Staff

Although, for the past few years, much of her time has been spent in the rainforests of Central and South America, Debby Kaspari still maintains a residence in Little Axe, Oklahoma. Now folks will get to see and hear the observations of this birdwatcher, banjo picker and nature artist, in an exhibit at the Sam Noble Museum of Natural History... »

Get to know Murray the Hump

By Ledger Staff

One-time Little Axe resident and Al Capone associate Murray Humphreys, will be remembered at a gathering close to his former home at Brendle Corner. Mel Shoemaker is hosting the meeting which includes a movie about Humphreys' life and reports from relatives and people who knew him and worked with him. From Wikipedia Llewelyn Morris Humphreys (1899 - November 23, 1965) (also known... »

Drawing the Motmot

By Ledger Staff
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Little Axe artist Debby Cotter Kaspari took her little 3" X 5" sketch book to the Panama jungle. Rufous Motmot by D. Kaspari See more pages here. As a dedicated field artist she uses her signature gesture drawings, field notes and camera to accentuate the rhythms and movements of her animal, plant and landscape subjects. Most of her work is done on paper,... »

Etched in Our Memory

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