By Jazz M. Wolfe | Gaylord News May 10, 2021 1 of 2
Oklahomaâs first Native American-owned brewing company, inspired by the recipes of the ownerâs father, will open an independent location this summer.
SkyDance Brewing Co., owned and operated by Jacob Keyes, opened in 2018 when Keyes, a member of the Iowa Nation, started the business in honor of his father. The company has been operating out of a co-op â a single location where multiple brewing companies use the same equipment â in Oklahoma City, but will move to an independent location.
Keyes and his father had always wanted to open their own brewery. One day, Keyes found a beer recipe of his dadâs and made it. His friends insisted he enter it into a competition, which he won. The evening Keyes won the competition, his brother called him to say their father had died.
May 10, 2021
Jacob Keyes, a member of the Iowa Nation, owns and operates SkyDance Brewing Co. in Oklahoma City. It’s a dream Keyes and his late father shared. (Photo courtesy of Jacob Keyes)
Oklahoma’s first Native American-owned brewing company, inspired by the recipes of the owner’s father, will open an independent location this summer.
Jacob Keyes, a member of the Iowa Nation, opened SkyDance Brewing Co. in 2018 in honor of his father. Since then, the brewery has been operating out of a co-op – a single location where multiple companies use the same equipment – in Oklahoma City. The new taproom and brewery are under construction in the historic Automobile Alley north of downtown.
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For Tribal citizens like Tanya Henry, a Muscogee (Creek) citizen and emergency room nurse for the tribe, there is much anticipation and anxiety.
Henry, who s been working for the Nation for 11 years, was inspired to become a nurse by her mother. So, I actually remember going with her to class and sitting outside of class and quizzing her on the road from where we lived to Connors (State College), where her college was, remembered Henry.
She eventually went to nursing school and worked at what was then known as Okmulgee Memorial Hospital after graduating.
When the first few cases of coronavirus were diagnosed in Oklahoma, she was scared. That s because Native Americans and Alaska Natives are being hit particularly hard by the virus. The CDC reports that the COVID-19 hospitalization rate for Native and Alaska Native people has now grown to 521 per 100,000 people.
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