Caleb Gayle

Article written by Caleb Gayle, a contributing writer and a professor at Northeastern University. He grew up in Oklahoma and has written extensively about the state.

Gayle, a journalist and journalism professor at Northeastern University, tells of how one 19th-century Black Creek citizen, Cow Tom, served as an interpreter and negotiator, playing “a special role in bridging the gap between the Creek world and that of the ever-growing world of this newer, whiter America.”