Meet us on the Guthrie Green lawn to experience the Wah.Zha.Zhe Puppet Theatre adaptation of the Osage people’s creation story “Sky E.ko and Her Ni.ka.she (Sky Grandma and Her People)” and "Way Back" installation by Anita Fields (Osage/Muscogee) and Nokosee Fields  (Cherokee / Muscogee / Osage). The performance will start at 10 am on Saturday, October 7!  

The Wah.Zha.Zhe Puppet Theatre is the creation of artist, curator, and writer Welana Fields, in collaboration with stage director Russell Tallchief, playwright Candice Byrd-Boney, puppet designer Christopher Lutter-Gardella of Big Animal Productions, sound designer Nokosee Fields, and the Osage community members who helped make the puppets and perform in the play. 

The WayBack platforms have traveled back to Tulsa from the Counterpublic triennial in St. Louis, where they were installed at the sacred site Sugarloaf Mound. They will be distributed to Osage community members, completing the link between the current home of the Osage Nation and its ancestral homelands. 

Wah.Zha.Zhe Puppet Theatre adaptation of the Osage people’s creation story and Way Back installation by Anita and Nokosee Fields (Osage Nation) at Guthrie.