“Beyond All Age”: Indigenous Water Rights in Linda Hogan's Fiction

From the Mississippi Flood of 1927 to the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita of 2005 to the bp oil spill of 2010, from the Flint, Michigan, water crisis of 2016 to drought conditions that have persisted for the past several years, environmental events have revealed water to be both a threatening curse and a threatened commodity. Adjacent to this recreational area, the Chickasaw Cultural Museum opened in 2010, which, along with tribal archives, includes a re-created village and council house, traditional foodways café, and state-of-the-art exhibit space and incorporates a water pavilion, plants, and trees that are native to Oklahoma and to Chickasaw homelands in the Southeast ("The Campus").