This story was excerpted from an interview conducted in Bennettsville in October 2026

Karen: regalia. Our regalia is so precious, precious to us, and it’s like don’t touch because it’s not like you can go to the store and buy one. I mean, there are native women that have started stores, so and which I would have to buy from a native store because I’m not really crafty with sewing. But now beadwork and leather. I mean the brown hide in there that dress in there. I made. 

Savannah Turgal: Oh wow! 

Karen: Yeah, my mother made the rest of them, and I made all the chokers. 

Savannah Turgal: That’s it was really beautiful. 

Karen :Thank you, thank you, and and I have my loom to do bead work. I just don’t want to do it. 

Savannah Turgal: It’s a lot of work.