Chickasaw Cultural Center

The Chickasaw Cultural Center is located in Sulphur, Oklahoma near the Chickasaw National Recreation Area. Its 109-acre campus is home to historical museums with interactive exhibits on Chickasaw tribal history, traditional dancing, and Chickasaw language. [1] Visitors can explore a traditional tribal village and a garden honoring members of the Chickasaw Nation Hall of Fame.

Chickasaw Cultural Center museum building, with a statue of a stylized Chickasaw warrior in the foreground
Chickasaw Cultural Center museum building

The Holisso Research Center holds a collection of tribal archives and genealogical records. The 350-seat Anoli’ Theater has a 40-by-60-foot screen with three projectors and features daily showings of Native American themed films.[2] The campus also has an outdoor amphitheatre, sky terrace, plants native to Oklahoma and Mississippi, and a statue by sculptor and former Oklahoma state senator Enoch Kelly Haney.[3] Construction began in 2004, took six years to complete, cost $40 million,[4] and opened in 2010.[5]

Chickasaw Cultural Center, theater building

References
  1. “Chickasaw Cultural Center” Profile at TravelOK
  2. Grooms, Jordan, “Come to the Museum, Go to the Movies: The Anoli’ Theater”, The Journal of Chickasaw History and Culture, Vol XII, Number 2, Series 45, Spring 2010
  3. ”After Two Decades, Chickasaw Cultural Center Opens”, Fox News, August 9, 2010
  4. Evans, Murray, "Chickasaw Cultural Center seeks to preserve tribes heritage", The Oklahoman, August 9, 2010
  5. “Chickasaw Cultural Center opens in Sulphur Archived 2015-12-09 at the Wayback Machine” KXII, July 16, 2010

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