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The “Cherokee Kid,” as he was known, was born in 1879 in Indian Territory near modern-day Oologah, Okla.

In Claremore, Okla., a man dropped off a huge bouquet of flowers to the Will Rogers Memorial Museum, she said, “because he just felt so sad and didn’t know what to do.”

After watching the video, Jennifer Rogers, who lives near her great-grandfather’s gravesite in Claremore, Okla., “just put my phone on silent and sat and cried.”

When Lincoln Riley was hired by USC in the fall of 2021, he brought four staffers with him on the plane from Norman, Okla. Among them was Bennie Wylie, who’d spent the previous four years as Riley’s strength and conditioning coach at Oklahoma.

Givens grew up in a Protestant household in Tulsa, Okla. His mom listened to Beethoven.