Every year, we at What s Up! challenge ourselves to look back and then look forward. So I asked April Wallace and Monica Hooper, both of whom write for the magazine, to choose their top three stories from 2023.
Louis Wayne Ballard or "Honga-no-zhe," meaning "Grand Eagle" in Quapaw was born on July 8, 1931, in Devil s Promenade, Okla., near Miami. His mother was Quapaw; his father Cherokee. At 6, he was sent to the Seneca Indian Training School, where the goal was to assimilate him into white American culture.