:: Oklahoma Native American Basketweavers

MISSION STATEMENT

The mission and purpose of the Oklahoma Native American Basketweavers Association is to preserve, promote and perpetuate traditional basketry and culture of Native American tribes through educational programs in Oklahoma.

GOALS

To teach members basketry techniques and tribal culture thereby creating and maintaining a functioning network of basketweavers who support one another in their basket weaving activities.

ONABA members preserve, promote and perpetuate traditional basketry and culture

of Native tribes through education and networking.

Peggy Sanders Brennan started meeting with a small group of basket weavers in 2001 to discuss forming an organization of basketweavers to promote basketry of the Oklahoma tribes. John Elder, director, of Red Earth Inc. and curator, Tammy Liegerot, hosted a meeting at Red Earth to elect the first officers. Subsequently, Peggy filed a Not For Profit Certificate of Incorporation with the Oklahoma Secretary of State, November 2002. The certificate reads “Whereas, the Certificate of Incorporation of Oklahoma Native American Basketweavers Association has been filed in the office of the Secretary of State as provided by the laws of the State of Oklahoma.”