Once the bodies are exhumed, the city and its public oversight committee will determine the next steps for “storing remains, DNA testing and genealogical research, and commemorating the gravesites and honoring the remains,” said a city news release. The excavation is expected to take weeks longer, Stackelbeck said, because they don’t know how many graves hey will find. 'It's shameful.' Massacre survivors' lawyers demand Tulsa be the next city to pay reparations "We came to remember," said Porter, who came to Tulsa for the centennial commemorations. Linda Porter of Birmingham, Ala., kneels at a makeshift memorial of flowers for the Tulsa Race Massacre at stairs leading to a now empty lot near the historic Greenwood district during centennial commemorations of the massacre, Tuesday, June 1, 2021, in Tulsa, Okla.
So we’re working with our multiple hypotheses about what can explain the presence of a mass grave,” she said, adding that the graves from the massacre is “absolutely still a possible scenario.” “So we have to remain cautious and not get too ahead of ourselves in terms of our interpretations. Stackelbeck expects that more graves will be uncovered as the excavation moves west, but says that some of these deaths may be associated with the 1918-1919 flu pandemic. “But now, we’re at this point where we’re doing the hand excavations, this is where Cardno’s team is using smaller hand tools to remove the soil from on top of, and then around, the skeletal remains that are contained within those coffins, and then they will be documented in place,” Stackelbeck said. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki) Sue Ogrocki/APįive additional coffins found at 1921 Tulsa massacre search site Oklahoma state archaeologist Kary Stackelbeck, left, examines the digging site as excavation begins at Oaklawn Cemetery in a search for victims of the Tulsa Race Massacre believed to be buried in a mass grave, Tuesday, June 1, 2021, in Tulsa, Okla.
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