The Chickasaw Press will conduct a Christmas Book Sale from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 14 at the Chickasaw Nation Medical Town Center, located at 1921 Stonecipher Blvd., Ada, Okla.
Individuals will be able to enjoy refreshments and music as well as a 15 percent discount on the entire Chickasaw Press catalog.
The Chickasaw Press, a department of the Chickasaw Nation Division of History and Culture, publishes non-fiction books on Chickasaw history, traditions and culture.
Three new Chickasaw Press publications were released this year.
"Chickasaw Lives, Volume Four: Tribal Mosaic" by Richard Green is the culmination of Green's project to research and write the stories of Chickasaw history and the tribe's people. Green presents 26 essays in six categories and a wide range of topics from eighteenth and nineteenth century sketches to book and treasures to cultural revivals.
"Chikasha Stories, Volume Two: Shared Voices" by Glenda Galvan and illustrated by Jeannie Barbour is the companion to the award-winning volume, Shared Spirits, Chickasaw storyteller, Glenda Galvan shares five more stories with the original, tradition-inspired illustrations by Chickasaw artist, Jeannie Barbour. These beautiful stories are told in Chickasaw and English.
"Anompilbashsha' Asilhha' Holisso: Chickasaw Prayer Book" by the Chickasaw Language Committee. Edited by Joshua Hinson, John Dyson and Pamela Munro, this ground-breaking project by the Chickasaw Press combines topics prayers, readings, and selected passages from the Holy Bible (King James Version) and presents them in a Chickasaw-English format. This volume marks the first time multiple selections from the Bible have been translated in Chickasaw and made available to the tribe's community, general readers, and students and scholars of Native languages.
For more information, please visit www.chickasawpress.com or call (580) 622-7130.
