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This year’s Chickasaw Celebrations will be Wednesday, September, 4, 2019 at the Natchez Trace Visitor Center from 4PM – 8PM and Friday, September, 6 2019 at The Pavilion at First Choice Gateway in Pontotoc, also from 4:00PM – 8:00PM.  We will have various demonstrations showcasing the rich cultural heritage of the Chickasaw people.  Both events will feature the Chickasaw Nation Dance Troupe.  Also, the Chickasaw Nation’s Stan Nelson, will a presentation on Piominko.  In addition to Mr. Nelsons presentation, the Natchez Trace event will also feature CIF Board member, Raymond Doherty.  He will speak on his research on with the Saliichi Colbert House.  For more info, please visit ChickasawCelebration.com.

The Chickasaw Inkana Foundation will be hosting a Chickasaw Celebration at the DeSoto County History Museum and the MS Hills National Heritage Area Alliance on Thursday, September 13, 2018, consisting of cultural demonstrations from the Chickasaw Nation displaying traditional crafts, language, music, dancing, storytelling, cooking, and stickball. We will also host scholarly discussions on Chickasaw history and culture in the Tupelo City Hall Council Chamber. Lastly, working with the Tupelo Public School District, we will develop CEU-qualifying teacher training and curriculum development sessions for 4th-grade classrooms which attend the Celebration.

Chickasaw Inkana Foundation is co-hosting an event with Shiloh National Military Park on August 24 and August 25.  Activities will include stickball, storytelling, archeology, and stompdancing. Special speakers Benny Wallace and Ric Greenwood from the Chickasaw Nation.

Chickasaw Inkana Foundation will be co-hosting mini-celebrations tentatively in partnership with Union County Heritage Museum on Tuesday, April 18, 2017 and Amory Museum on Thursday, April 20, 2017. We will also be hosting mini-celebrations in Tupelo on September 12, 2017 and Holly Springs on September 14, 2017. Featured will be the Chickasaw Nation Dance Troupe, cultural demonstrations, and special guest speakers on Chickasaw history and culture! 

While the total cost for the future Chickasaw Heritage Center has yet to be determined, it already has gotten some key financial backing.

The Tupelo Convention & Visitors Bureau has committed up to $1 million to the center, which will be built on 162 acres owned by the Chickasaw Inkana Foundation adjacent to the Natchez Trace Parkway.

Tupelo CVB Executive Director Neal McCoy said the money will be a lump sum amount placed in the city’s capital account, with the money paid out as construction is completed.

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TUPELO, Miss. (WCBI) –Plans are announced for the building of a multi-million dollar Chickasaw Heritage Center in Tupelo.

Representatives of the Chickasaw Inkana Foundation, Chickasaw Nation, National Park Service and the city of Tupelo made the announcement during a press conference Friday morning.

The Cultural Heritage Center will be located on a 162 acre tract of land adjacent to the Natchez Trace Parkway and will tell the story of how the Chickasaws lived in Mississippi for hundreds of years.

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Chickasaw Inkana Foundation will be presenting at Shiloh National Military Park on Monday, May 9, 2016 at 10:00.  If you are in the area please stop by and visit.

TUPELO – Cold wind sliced through the morning sunshine Monday outside City Hall where some two dozen people surrounded Chief Piomingo’s statue to mark a new tradition.
Starting this year, the second Monday of October will be known in Tupelo as “Piomingo Day,” according to a proclamation read by Mayor Jack Reed Jr.
Reed was among those present at the brief ceremony. Others included members of the Rotary Club, which in 2005 had commissioned and erected the bronze statue of the 18th century warrior, and a representative of the Chickasaw Nation.
Brad Lieb, cultural resources specialist for the Chickasaw Nation’s Department of Homeland Affairs, said the statue and the annual commemoration will strengthen the bond between the tribe and the people of Tupelo.
The Chickasaw Nation also celebrates Piomingo Day the second Monday of October, which coincides with Columbus Day.
“Columbus Day seems a poignant, pertinent time to read the proclamation and show Tupelo’s love of the ancestral Homeland of the Chickasaw Nation,” Reed said.
 

http://djournal.com/news/piomingo-daytupelo-will-remember-chickasaw-chief-each-year/

More than 300 years ago, the Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto set out from Spanish Florida on an expedition to explore North America. Archaeologists have long debated the exact path he took and what occurred during his journey along the ‘De Soto Trail,’ but at least one point is undisputed: de Soto encountered Chickasaw Indians in the Mississippi village of Chicaza.

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