After six years of construction, the Chickasaw Cultural Center is finished and welcoming visitors, an Associated Press article reported today.
The facility, located in Sulphur, Okla., cost the Chickasaw Nation $40 million, and it was paid for with tribal gaming revenues. The grand opening was held on July 24.
The center, the AP reported, “traces the tribe's life from its ancestral homelands in what is now the southeastern United States, then along the Trail of Tears, then to its emergence in recent years as one of Oklahoma's most prominent American Indian tribes.”
Occupying a 109-acre site, it features a 350-seat theater with a 2,400-square-foot screen, an exhibit center and a replica of a traditional Chickasaw village. There is also a cafe serving traditional Chickasaw cuisine; a garden, where the tribe's hall of fame is honored; and a research center.
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