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National Park Service partners with the University of Nebraska to research Black homesteaders in Oklahoma Share Updated: 4:40 PM CDT Jul 30, 2021 Keegan Cooper The latest breaking updates, delivered straight to your email inbox. Share Updated: 4:40 PM CDT Jul 30, 2021 Keegan Cooper Digital Editor The National Park Service and University of Nebraska’s Center for Great Plains Studies announced Friday that they will be partnering to expand research about Black homesteaders. “We are happy to work with the National Park Service to expand our research,” said University of Nebraska Project Director Mikal Brotnov Eckstrom. “Oklahoma is a state where the histories of formerly enslaved Americans and the forced migrations of many Native Nations come together. These histories help us understand the needs and desires of those intertwined histories with that of a burgeoning nation.”The research will include the lives of Black

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