Oklahoma Homesteaders I Poem by John McCornack

Ever so slowly the great wheel of life continues to turn
Oklahoma became the home for many types of people
There were displaced Indians from many eastern states
Blacks from the southern states looking for a new start

Hardy pioneers from east and south looking for a better life
Some how, some way, these people all meshed together
They build their own homes and raised extended families
And became the ancestors of today’s people in Oklahoma