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Article: Gallery Catalyst for Colony's Renaissance
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- THE JOURNAL RECORD
- Article date:
- November 19, 1994
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COLONY _ You have to drive to Colony in western Oklahoma on
purpose to get there. You will find it at the end of State Hwy.
54B, a spur off State Hwy. 54 south of Weatherford.
It's sort of an oasis nestled amid the rolling short grass
prairie of Washita County. With numerous trees in the valley of
Cobb Creek, the town stands out from surrounding barren hills. A
few hundred people live peacefully where John Seger started a
colony with 25 Arapaho Native Americans in 1886.
In this unlikely place, Yvonne Kauger, now an Oklahoma Supreme
Court justice, started the Gallery of the Plains Indians during
1981 to display the art of Oklahoma Indians. That small gallery
in her home town was the ...