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Plant Music: Song of the Council Oak is a tribute to the historic Council Oak Tree, a vital symbol of resilience and the foundation of the Muscogee Creek Nation in Tulsa.
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https://youtu.be/zO9MhF9AaXc
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Arriving from the #TrailOfTears, the Mvskoke chose an oak tree on top of a hill that overlooked the Arkansas River as the site of their council ground. They lit a new ceremonial fire, using coals they had carried on their journey.
“Songs of the Council Oak” came from the recordings of bioelectrical outputs from the Council Oak tree.
The binary code is then inputted into Buchla #Synthesizers to create the unique sound.
#Mvskoke #Tvlse #Native #Indigenous
https://www.mvskokemedia.com/song-of-the-council-oak-debuts-at-plant-music-micro-festival/
Later in February, the company will then publish another report the Department of Justice issued shortly before Trump returned to power, concerning the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921.
It took the DOJ more than 100 years to stand up a proper investigation of the Tulsa Race Massacre – one of the most unjustly obscure episodes in US history, in which hundreds were killed when Greenwood, Oklahoma, a prosperous Black neighborhood, was destroyed by a white mob.
#Tvlse #Tulsa
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/feb/09/melville-house-jack-smith-trump-tulsa-race-massacre-reports
