1896: The Rufus Buck Gang, heaven-dream’t

ExecutedToday.com ^ | July 1st, 2019 | Headsman

[CheshireTheCat]

On this date in 1896, the Rufus Buck Gang was hanged at Fort Smith, Arkansas for a two-week spree of violence against white Oklahoma settlers.

After doing a 90-day turn in Judge Isaac Parker‘s jail for selling liquor, the half-Creek, half-Black teenager Rufus Buck emerged violently politicized — “enraged by what he considered the theft of Indian lands. He decided it was his duty to rid the land of those who, in his eyes, did not belong”

If his theory of resistance was naive, the grievance was real enough. Earlier that century the Creeks of the American Southeast had been made to quaff humiliation by the emerging United States, and expelled with many other indigenous peoples from their ancestral lands to present-day Oklahoma; in Buck’s own lifetime, this remnant Indian Territory was itself being positioned for takeover by white settlement.....

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

Biden will urge this guy’s birthday be made a national holiday.

[Ken H]

Judge Parker requesting peppermint to settle his stomach.

[FLT-bird]

We knew how to deal with violent criminals back then. Assault, rape, murder......hang ‘em all.

None of this years of appeals BS. Spare me the wailing about how they’re teenagers. They were thugs. The world was made a better place when they all swung at the end of a rope.

[fella]

All because the first Demoncratic President stole the Muskogee’s land to gift to his supporters and set his “Trail of Tears” progrom in motion.