This special event on May 16 focuses on the agricultural traditions of our past, our current tribal initiatives and the future of Indigenous agriculture. Guests will have the opportunity to enjoy special themed film screenings, interact with vendors, participate in children’s planting activities and more!

Event Activities:

• Fresh produce and dried goods vendor market
• Children's ag education station and planting activities
• Special screening of "Inhabitants: Indigenous Perspectives on Restoring Our World"
• Garden plant and caterpillar cup giveaways
• Life-size model milking cow experience

Event Agenda:

Ayowa' Tour:

• 10 a.m.-noon – wilted Swiss chard with red chili flakes

Reservations required. Call special events at (580) 622-7130

Bus Pavilion:

• Just Blowin’ Smoke food truck
• Quapaw Nation Farmers Market truck
• Chalk zone
  
  

Holisso: The Center for Study of Chickasaw History and Culture (Front Porch):

• Euchee Butterfly Farm
  - Caterpillar cup giveaway
  - Support organization tabling on Natives Raising Natives program

• Indigenous Food and Ag Initiative
• Murray State College
  - Urban Agriculture and Small Farm Hub program information and the agriculture degree program
• Natural Resources Conservation Service Tribal Liaison
  - Ag support organization providing information/resources
  
  

Holisso: The Center for Study of Chickasaw History and Culture (Library):

• Tribal Ag Day photo op
  
  

Aaimpa' Café:

• Limited menu
• Special – pollinator salad
  
  

Anoli’ Theater Screenings: 

• 10:30 a.m. - “Behind the Scenes”
• 11 a.m. - Stomp Dance Demonstration
• 11:30 a.m. - “Spirit Plate with Chef Pyet DeSpain” Episode 1 and 2
• 12:30 p.m. - “Inhabitants: Indigenous Perspectives on Restoring Our World”
• 2 p.m. - Stomp Dance Demonstration
• 2:30 p.m. - “Charlotte’s Web” (2006)
• 6:30 p.m. - “Now You See Me, Now You Don’t” (2025)
  
  

Anoli' Theater (Overflow):

• Chickasaw Farms
  - Programmatic info
• Intertribal Ag Council
  - Ag support organization providing information/resources
• Native Farming Solutions
  - Educational activity table
  
  

Kochcha' Aabiniili' Amphitheater:

• Choctaw Nation
  - Model milking cow and aquaponics display
• OSU Extension
  - Dystocia heifer

• OSU Master Gardeners
  - Programming booth
  
  

Chikasha Poya Exhibit Center (Plaza):

• Blevins Family Meat Co.
  - Vendor booth
• College of Muscogee Nation
  - Yaupon holly 
• Wesson Farms
  - Selling canned goods, honey and pottery
  
  

Chikasha Poya Exhibit Center (Porch):

• Chickasaw Rangers

• Native Foodways Restoration Alliance
  - Support organization, programmatic info
• Nutrition services
  
  

Chikasha Poya Exhibit Center (Lobby):

• Retail - Wildflower seed disc giveaways
  
  

Chikasha Inchokka’ Traditional Village:

• Cultural Resources
  - Corn husk dolls
• CCC Horticulture – Kids Zone
  - Lawn memory game
  - Puzzles
  - Foraged/cultivate/hunted/reared felt board
  - Kids farmers market stand
  - Corn pit - weather pending
• Squash Planting – Three Sisters Garden, Village
  - Traditional tools
• Cherokee Ethnobiology/Seed Bank – Chikasha Inchokka’ – South Arbor
  
• Growing Hope Program, Choctaw Nation – Chikasha Inchokka’ – South Arbor
  

Spiral Garden and Orchard Area:

• Plant the Spiral – Spiral Garden
• Plant giveaway – Monarch Butterfly Hoop House
  • Six-pack gardens to go