When Ruth Hooker built Hooker’s Grill in the Fort Worth Stockyards in 2017, she pressed her family’s handprints into a corner of the foundation before the concrete set. She placed scripture in the walls. On the outside, in large letters visible from the sidewalk, she had the words Chi Pisa La Chi Ke engraved in stone. It’s Choctaw. It means until we meet again. There is no word for goodbye in the Choctaw language, and Ruth doesn’t say it to her customers. “I’ll see you later. I’ll see you next time. I’ll see you down the road.”
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