Tulsa Wellness Center Bridges Gap For Tribal Communities In Green Country

A local organization is working to bridge the gap between tribal communities in Green Country.

It’s been a little over a month since Burning Cedar Sovereign Wellness opened its first facility in Tulsa. It's designed to help Indigenous people of all backgrounds.

Burning Cedar Sovereign Wellness started last year and serves as a intertribal wellness center for Tulsa’s native community.

The site offers different activities to reconnect the native community with traditional indigenous food and healing practices at no cost.

The goal is to help them heal from generational trauma they may have experienced.

Founder Nico Albert Williams said many tribal headquarters are in rural communities, so this new facility is welcome to many.

"For the Osage, a lot of that is in their tribal towns. And every other tribe that’s even farther away. If you’re Choctaw living in Tulsa, you got to go to Durant for a lot of these events happening through the tribe. That is a barrier for a lot of people. This is a space for the urban native people who may not have the time or the resources," Williams said.

Starting this fall and winter, people will be able to participate in cooking workshops and native storytelling.