Two Kinds of Robbery

Lone Wolf and His Wife, Etla. Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, public domain.

Being a relation of how Indian land was stolen twice, first the homelands and then the reservations.

Woody Guthrie was born in 1912 — -five years after Oklahoma statehood shredded the treaties with the Five Tribes, all of which promised their land in Indian Territory would never become part of a state without the consent of tribal government. Woody was born and…