Twilight of the Palms

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Born December 1, 1921…Dr. Gibson came from Pleasanton, Kansas – Earned B.A. – Missouri Southern State College – M.A. (1948) and Ph.D. (1954) from the University of Oklahoma – He was professor of history and government at Phillips University in Enid – and at the University of Oklahoma in Norman. His works include so many…near three dozen Oklahoma History of Five Centuries of Books. Gibson served as the Oklahoma Center for the Book’s first president – the Center named its highest award in honor of the Norman historian. Seven of the 21 authors on the official Literary Map of Oklahoma are recipients of the Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award. It is given annually to an Oklahoman for a body of literary work. Gibson died in Norman – November 30, 1987 Why the title? Reason #1: Raising the Palm of their Hand (American Indian) to the side of the face of that tribal member was more than ‘Hello’. It seems, as told me by a very older American Indian belief was the Palm of the hand carried the eternal eye. Never to blink, stray, close and accept only the truth! Reason #2: Truth all day… “Twilight” is ‘that’ time between dawn, sunrise of the day, and sunset or dusk. With ‘Dusk’ to be ‘Civil’, ‘Nautical’ or ‘Astronomical’ History of the American Indian is extremely delicate or refined with firm but ethereal spiritual beauty. Yet here in these pages we find living on this earth is a power of patience some call the American Indian. And the science of their ‘where about’ is more than amazing, at times. As is, of course, that of all life and human beings! So, it is said, with any class of organic compounds in which two hydrocarbon groups are linked by an oxygen atom, I ask, “Where and how, with life coming from volatile, highly flammable liquid, C2H5OC2H5, from the regions of space beyond the earth’s atmosphere; the heavens did, whom we call American Indian, show up 30,000 years ago?” Through this great Native American insight with Dr. Gibson, his plateau is obvious. That is to reach to let us achieve that common ground of mutual understanding for humankind. His verbal detente of history for all of us, through great achievements of Native America, should help us. In that to be when we see within standoffs of non-comparative relationship within each and other societies’.”