TULSA, Okla. — City leaders are considering a proposed ordinance aimed at creating new guidelines for handling human remains and cultural artifacts connected to Greenwood and the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, as officials work to ensure discoveries tied to that history are protected as development moves forward.
Beneath Tulsa’s historic Greenwood District, artifacts and human remains could hold answers to a history that is still being uncovered. But city leaders say there is no clear legal process for protecting those discoveries when future development happens.
Kristi Williams, chair of the Beyond Apology Commission, said, “Artifacts help fill in gaps to our story and to our history.”…