Our Oklahoma Smokeshow
<p>I didn’t know my family pilgrimage would take us to Margaritaville. I wanted to know more about being a citizen of the Muscogee Creek Nation and I wanted my kids to know their ancestors, our family history, and what it means to be a Native person. And so I set out, with two of my kids, to find the answers in Okmulgee, Oklahoma.</p>
<p>We had been planning the trip for months. We intended to go last summer during the “Muscogee Festival,” part county fair, part pow-wow, part basketball tournament, and what I thought would be the perfect occasion to learn the real Muscogee culture. That trip got canceled because a freak windstorm passed through days before, knocking out power to our hotel, and setting my cousin on a determined mission to repair downed trees and damaged roofs.</p>
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