Russell Cobb

Russell Cobb, a fourth-generation white Oklahoman, is professor in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta and the author of The Great Oklahoma Swindle, which won the 2021 Director’s Award in the Oklahoma Book Awards. His journalism has appeared in the New York Times, The Guardian, Slate, The Nation, and on NPR. His reporting appearing on This American Life was turned into the film Come Sunday, distributed by Netflix. He is also the host of History X, a podcast about buried histories and nonfiction mysteries, broadcast on 88.5FM in Edmonton, Canada, and across all major podcast platforms.

Land, Oil, and Indigenous Identity: On the Disappearance of Tommy Atkins

Russell Cobb Explores the Strange Case of an Indigenous Orphan in Early 1900s Tulsa

October 11, 2024 By Russell Cobb

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Russell Cobb

Land, Oil, and Indigenous Identity: On the Disappearance of Tommy Atkins

Russell Cobb Explores the Strange Case of an Indigenous Orphan in Early 1900s Tulsa

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