Site Restoration

The Cultural Center is being built on an industrial location which housed over fifty producing oil and gas wells. 

The Native American Cultural & Educational Authority (NACEA) and its consultants, Centennial Builders and Cardinal Engineering, have partnered with OERB and the Oklahoma Corporation Commission to o repair environmental damage to the site.   Seven oil and gas wells have been successfully plugged, approximately 7,000 discarded tires have been removed from the site as well as the removal of petroleum and salt residues. .  Landscape restoration and erosion control is being executed by  Hargreaves Associates.

As the site is healed...

Three ecologies – woods, plains and rivers, representing the original homelands of the American Indian community, will renew and flourish.  Cultural ecology tours and educational activities focusing on natural democracy and sustainability will enhance the visitor experience and provide another layer of understanding regarding cultural and ecological history.