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The OK Choctaw Tribal Alliance,
Inc, a Section 501 (c) (3) non-profit corporation, is located in Oklahoma City, OK. We were
founded by members of what is now the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, but we
welcome persons
of
all tribes and nationalities to our membership and to our
functions.
We meet monthly to socialize at a
pot luck dinner and to afterwards conduct business. We usually
have a speaker or some form of entertainment at the meeting. You
do not have to be a member to attend the dinner and meeting, so
feel free to visit us. If you decide to join, the membership
dues are only $5.00 per year, which you can pay to our
Treasurer, Pearl Lewis, at the meeting. You must be a paid up
member by December 31st in order to vote or to run for office in
the next annual election.
Among our
typical events are a bus trip to Tvshkahomma for the
Choctaw Nation Veteran's Day ceremonies, our Christmas party, entering a
float in the Oklahoma City St. Patrick's Day Parade, and the
upcoming bus trip to the Wheelock Academy for the annual Trail of Tears
Walk ceremonies. Last year we held a Fall
Festival in lieu of our usual summer
picnic. It was so successful that we agreed to make the Fall
Festival an annual event. We entered a float in the 2007 Edmond
4th of July parade. To the best of our knowledge, we and the OKC
Metro Chickasaw Council were the only Native American entries in
the parade.
We offer free Choctaw language
classes, which are described on our Language Classes page. We
also hold cultural classes such as our recent classes in basket
weaving and moccasin making.
Our fund raising events are the
monthly Indian taco sales, an annual wild onion dinner, and a
breakfast. Our major fund raising event is taking the Indian
taco trailer to Tvshkahomma to sell Indian tacos at the Choctaw Nation's
Annual Labor Day Festival.
Some years ago the Alliance
adopted the following statement of its purposes:
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The Mission
Statement of the OK Choctaw Tribal Alliance, Inc. is to
promote the maintenance of the Choctaw culture and
heritage and the same for other American Indian people
in the Oklahoma City Area. We wish to create and enhance
awareness among the membership of the advantages and
importance of education, vocational training,
maintenance of family health, fiscal responsibility, and
other concerns associated with the quality of life for
Choctaws and others and to aid disadvantaged Choctaws
and others to the extent our resources will permit. |
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