4090 - Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States

On the back of the card it reads:: Robert Eagle's Heart Prairie Chief
in typical Cheyenne attire living in Western Oklahoma in Clinton.
The majority of the Oklahoma Cheyennes are still found in this area
today.

This card comes from a librarian in Tulsa. She found this card at a flea market. She mentions the Trail of Tears. The Trail of Tears was a forced displacement and ethnic cleansing of about 60 000 peoples of the "Five Civilized Tribes" and their black slaves between 1830 and 1950 by the United States Government.

Cherokee (Aniyvwiya), Muscogee (Mvskoke), Seminole, Chicksaw (Chikashsha), and Choctaw (Chahta) nations were forcibly moved to the new designated Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River as a result of the Indian Removal Act in 1830. The relocated people suffered from exposure, disease, and starvation while en route to their destinations or shortly thereafter.

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3584 - Blaine, Minnesota, United States of America

The sender was in Las Vegas recently and bought this card from The Mob Museum. The Mob Museum, officially known as the National Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement, is located in downtown Las Vegas. It open in 2012. It features artifacts, stories, and the history of organized crime in the United States, but also the actions and initiatives by law enforcement to prevent such crimes. The museum is found at the former Las Vegas Post Office and Courthouse, which was built in 1933. The quote on this card was from John Gotti. John Gotti (1940-2002) was the mafioso and boss of the Gambino crime family in New York City. After ordering the killing of Gambino boss Paul Catellano in 1985, he took over the family and led what was the United States' most powerful crime syndicate. He was known as The Teflon Don after three high profile trials in the 1980s resulted in acquittals. Later it was revealed that the trials had been tainted by jury tampering, juror misconduct, and...

3566 - Bakhmach, Chernihiv, Ukraine

Bakhmach is locarted in northern Ukraine. I'm taking this next paragraph straight out of Wikipedia: During the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 26, 2022, at least 65 units of Russian military equipment moved through Bakhmach, with about a hundred more on the outskirts. Local residents tried to stop the convoy on their own by blocking tank tracks with makeshift objects and convincing Russian soldiers not to move towards Kyiv . One man attempted to climb onto a tank and block the road with his body (he was not hurt). However, the military equipment continued to move, and Russian forces fired several shots into the air. Слава Україні!

3564 - Kassel, Hesse, Germany

A wonderful message on this card that translates to to those wh o can wait, everything comes with time.

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