A Chickasaw Homecoming
Location
Nutt Auditorium
Website
https://www.inkana.org/
Start Date
20-7-2016 11:00 AM
Description
Since its inception, the Chickasaw Inkana Foundation’s mission: To preserve, protect and interpret the culture and history of the Chickasaw people in the historic Chickasaw Homeland, has been personified through historical, cultural and preservation education and programing, public relations, historic site preservation and encouragement of original research in Chickasaw archaeology, culture and history. The foundation, in partnership with the Chickasaw Nation, hosts annual celebrations of Chickasaw culture and history throughout the historic Homeland, and also acquires and preserves endangered cultural and sacred sites important to the Chickasaw people. Additionally, the CIF, in partnership with the Chickasaw Nation, State of Mississippi, The United States Department of the Interior and the City of Tupelo, is tasked with the fundraising, development, construction and operation of a fully state-of-the-art Chickasaw Heritage Center (CHC) to be located in Tupelo, Mississippi, the heart of the historic Chickasaw Homeland.
Relational Format
Conference proceeding
Recommended Citation
Prewitt, Brad, "A Chickasaw Homecoming" (2016). Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference. 19.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/fy/2016/schedule/19
A Chickasaw Homecoming
Nutt Auditorium
Since its inception, the Chickasaw Inkana Foundation’s mission: To preserve, protect and interpret the culture and history of the Chickasaw people in the historic Chickasaw Homeland, has been personified through historical, cultural and preservation education and programing, public relations, historic site preservation and encouragement of original research in Chickasaw archaeology, culture and history. The foundation, in partnership with the Chickasaw Nation, hosts annual celebrations of Chickasaw culture and history throughout the historic Homeland, and also acquires and preserves endangered cultural and sacred sites important to the Chickasaw people. Additionally, the CIF, in partnership with the Chickasaw Nation, State of Mississippi, The United States Department of the Interior and the City of Tupelo, is tasked with the fundraising, development, construction and operation of a fully state-of-the-art Chickasaw Heritage Center (CHC) to be located in Tupelo, Mississippi, the heart of the historic Chickasaw Homeland.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/fy/2016/schedule/19