Celebrating The Chickasaw Culture

The Guns of Sipokni saddled up and rode into Tishomingo, the historic capital of the Chickasaw Nation, on October 4th to celebrate the great heritage and culture of the Chickasaw Nation. During the week of the Annual Chickasaw Festival an estimated 50,000 people take part in all of the cultural festivities.

The Guns were hosted by the Johnston County Historical Society and these folks do a wonderful job displaying and creating exhibits of past history in the Chickasaw Bank Musuem and the Historical Society building. Personally it was a great week for this gunslinger getting to see some faces I've been missing such as Vickie Luster, Letha Clark, and Mary Jane.

And, of course our lady gunslingers are always looking out for us and they packed the picnic baskets to serve us a most welcomed lunch. Gunslinging does tend to make one hungry.

The Guns performed Raw Deal first and this reenactment is quickly becoming a favorite for the crowd. One gentleman missed the performance and then said, "Shucks, that was the only reason I came down here." Then the Guns performed Toughest Man In Town and just like Raw Deal, Toughest Man is a crowd pleaser for sure.

Then the Guns heard of a disturbance in Pennington Park so they went there to get things under control. It seems the Backwood Gang was coming to town to sell some moonshine and rob the bank. It just happened the Ladies Temperance League was on another crusade to control the vile drink that turn the town men into mush.

The Guns had a wonderful time performing for the crowd and as always our lady gunslingers shined like a diamond in a plowed black dirt field. Their costumes bring so much color, flavor, and diversity to our reenactments it's no wonder many say the Guns of Sipokni are indeed the best performing gunsling troupe they've seen.