Thanks. We met some wonderful people on our trip along with some not-so-wonderful people.

My husband wanted to try the free "down-home" breakfast our hotel advertised, so we headed over to the dining hall before the event. A horse show was in town, so the dining hall was filled with truckers and cowboys. When we entered the room, they all looked up and glared at us. I'm used to the occasional disgusted or fearful look around here, but this was hatred staring at us - it was thick. My husband whispered to me "it's been a while, huh?"

He got his breakfast, and we sat down at a table - with all eyes upon us. While he ate, I sipped my coffee and stared right back at them. I wanted to see who would have the guts to say something vulgar to us, but they held their tongues.

Later that day I was hungry, so we stopped at a restaurant. The hostess glared at us and walked right on by several times. A woman yelled at her to seat us, and they got into an argument over who would seat us. We were tempted to leave, but we wanted to see where it would go. Our food was basically thrown at us, and we were never given any utensils - finally had to take them from another table.

If people could only see how ridiculous they look when they act in such a way towards other human beings.

We watched some of the centennial celebration later that evening. After hearing personal accounts from Indians of domestic/racial/religious violence and theft earlier in the day, it was kind of strange to see so many "settlers" happily re-enacting these events. It was also strange to hear a woman say Oklahoma had the "nicest" people. Considering the circumstances, I assumed she was talking about white people. Certainly wasn't our experience. The only people who were nice to us were the Indians.

Needless to say, we didn't stop at any restaurants on our way home.