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  • Choctaw Cultural Center
    Iti Fabvssa

    Five Years of Storytelling: The Choctaw Cultural Center’s Living Legacy

    When the Choctaw Cultural Center opened in Durant in 2021, it fulfilled a dream carried quietly but powerfully through generations. As early as the 1960s, Choctaw leaders and community members spoke at Labor Day gatherings about the need for a cultural center, a place where Choctaw history, language and culture could be practiced and protected.

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  • Painted hide in the collection of the Musee du quai Branly-Jacque
    Iti Fabvssa

    Painted Hides: Continuing Collaborations with the Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac

    The CNO Historic Preservation Department has been partnering with the Branly and with other Tribes to document, study and connect this collection with culturally affiliated Tribal communities since 2017.

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  • Herd of Pineywoods Cattle grazes among tress in the forest
    Iti Fabvssa

    Pineywoods Cattle

    A brief history of the Pineywoods Cattle, a breed of cattle used by Choctaw people for over 200 years. Choctaw people adapted the word "wak" from the Spanish word for cow, "vaca."

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  • Arrows in the Musée du quai Branly collection
    Iti Fabvssa

    Ancestral Arrows: Continuing collaborations with the Musée du quai Branly–Jacques Chirac

    One of the most impressive parts of the collection, a part that has not yet come to Oklahoma, is the arrows. The Branly has 115 arrows from the Southeast and Central U.S. that date to the 1700s.

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  • A map to give an idea of the location of the Indian villages
    Iti Fabvssa

    Historical Map Research: Continuing collaborations with the Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac

    Through a collaboration with the Musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac in Paris, France, we have analyzed historical French maps of the Choctaw homeland. Many of these maps were created in France using records by French explorers, who in turn, got their information from Choctaw people.

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  • Gradhiva No. 40 is a French publication of the Musée du quai Branly–Jacques Chirac and features articles by Choctaw and other Indigenous authors.
    Iti Fabvssa

    Allies of the French: Continuing collaborations with the Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac

    France and Choctaw Nation were allies through some of the most significant years of the colonial period. In 1724, the leaders of French-allied Tribes were invited to travel to France on a diplomatic mission to meet with King Louis XV. For unknown reasons, Choctaw leaders declined the invitation.

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  • A bison cow and calf, Nan Awaya Farm, Atoka County
    Iti Fabvssa

    The Buffalo are coming to the Choctaw Cultural Center

    A rare gem of Choctaw culture and land is located right next to the Choctaw Cultural Center in Calera, Oklahoma. It's 100 acres of native tallgrass prairie. In the near future, Cultural Services will be bringing a small herd of bison out to live on the Choctaw Cultural Center prairie to help us maintain it.

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