Volume 16 , Issue 13

NW Okie's Journey

Our journey this week is to search for powerful Women figures of the past. We did find such a women, Miss Catharing "Kate" Barnard, in Oklahoma before, during and after statehood. You can read about Kate Barnard in this week's OkieLegacy Ezine.

Jane Addams was another powerful women, who established the Hull-House in Chicago, Illinois. The Hull-House was located in the midst of a densely populated urban neighborhood peopled by Italian, Irish, German, Greek, Bohemian, and Russian and Polish Jewish immigrants.

Kate Barnard in 1914 was trying to raise funds for something similar to the Hull-House, but doing it in Oklahoma. Does anyone out there no if Barnard's Home of friendless, homeless working women ever got built? Was it also known as an orphanage for Indian wards? I know she did a lot of work protecting the Indian children who were loosing their land rights. Would love to know more abuo Barnard's Hull like Home.

The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) is working! Congress can keep their dirty hands off of my Medicare & Social Security!

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