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LEFT Victoria Tiger, taken in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
The council oak tree in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where
the ancestral fires from the Muscogee (Creek)
homelands are buried.
RIGHT Diana Davenport, taken in Macon, Georgia.
The shellshaker at the Ocmulgee Indigenous
Celebration is wearing milk can shakers. As culture
evolves, women have adapted and some dancers will
wear a lighter shaker and some continue to wear the
traditional turtle shell shakers.
