When I first entered the Chickasaw Cultural Center entrance, I was greeted by a worker, who handed me a pamphlet with a map and the weekly activities. After getting out of my car, the first thing I noticed was the pond with a beautiful fountain in the middle. The Oka’ Aabinilli’, water pavilion, is decorated with many animal statues, and the area surrounding the pavilion is occupied with many cranes as well as fish in the pond that you can feed for only a quarter! This is where I ran into Hailey Hanus, a Sulphur resident and a visitor at the center. “The Chickasaw Cultural Center is important to me because it celebrates the lands for what they are.” I talked to Hailey for a while and asked her all sorts of questions about what her experiences
