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Able, Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome,

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WelCom. INT's time now for our
community connection right here on K one.

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Camp Funeral Home on the telephone with us

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that we have a newly re elected
principal Chief of the cherry Key Nation truck

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Landslide Hoskin Junior. Congratulations of the
victory. Good to be with you,

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sir ah Hey busy, busy busy
Supreme Court ruling Wendy and the favor of

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all Native Americans here recently. Can
you tell us about that it did?

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It was a very significant victory that
you know, it really had consequences beyond

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the law that was an issue.
The law that was an issue of the

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Indian Child Welfare Act. This is
a law from nineteen seventy eight that gives

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additional considerations to children in any kind
of a placement proceedings safes and adoption temporary

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foster situation. That's that's sort of
a case special considerations given that they are

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citizens of Indian nations, and of
course a citizen of an Indian nation is

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a particular status. It's a political
status, just like you and I are

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citizens of the state of Oklahoma,
citizens in the United States. In this

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country, some of us are citizens
of Indian nations, and so that consideration

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was part of that law. It
gave an opportunity for tribes to place children

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with tribal lands within extended tribal families
or other members of the child's tribe.

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It was an additional requirement imposed by
federal laws since nineteen seventy eight. It

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was challenged on a number of bases. One of the bases was the equal

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protection clause, the opponents claiming this
was a racial preference. There were some

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other attacks on the law as well, but the Supreme Court upheld equal the

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NHL Welfare Act by a vote of
seventy two, which was surprising to me

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in terms of the margin. I
thought it would be a very close vote.

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And that's important because that law tom
really has worked. The century before

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that law, we know that Native
children were adopted away from tribal lands,

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Tribal customs were ignored, tribal governments
were ignored. In the status of these

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little ones were as tribal citizens were
ignored, and so that laws worked.

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We're glad it's still in the books. Had that law been struck down,

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though, Tom, it would have
had repercussions for a lot of other laws

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that are unique to Indian country,
and that worried me. But my worries

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are are are put aside for the
time being. We know there'll be another

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challenge around the corner. But that
was a great victory for Indian country.

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Indeed, I think I remember a
year or two ago you went down to

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h I think New Orleans when this
is a federal court, and you what

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you observed the proceedings there too,
Yeah, And I really have just been

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there the cheerleader along the way.
We had this mad talented legal team of

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the Cherokee lawyers and lawyers from other
tribes. But I went down to the

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Fifth Circuit in New Orleans a couple
of years ago. That was that was

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in the pre COVID days. Tim
that and then as COVID was receding last

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year, I went to Supreme ordens
set in on those are oral arguments.

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And coming out of that experience,
I was a bit worried, guarded and

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guardedly optimistic, I would say.
And so now we have a great victory,

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and we'll we'll move on to the
next challenge. Now you have a

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legal degree. Does does a legal
degree have a pretty weckward? Is it

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of worry and concern? It does? I think bil DNA, So that's

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right, of course. Unfortunately they
were much more talented lawyers doing the actual

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argument. I'm just sitting back there
with my fingers crossed and saying a prayer

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to well, it's always good to
know that you're thinking of anything and everything

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when things are going through there.
I meant that as a compliment, though

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I don't know if it was taking
that way. That's right, but I

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understand the Cherokee Nation has purchased the
Will Rogers birthplace and tell us a little

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bit about that. Yeah, this
is exciting and this is something that's a

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long time in coming. So the
Will Roger's birthplace is near Ulagab. This

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is the birthplace. It's the great
Will Rogers who of course it's known around

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the world, and I'm always amazed
on that he's still known around the world.

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He has such staying parent in terms
of what he meant for the popular

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culture for political discourse in this country. In the early part of the twentieth

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century, very important figure in history, but the Cherokee, and of course

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his birthplace ranch was pre statehood and
his family, of course was among the

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Cherokees who came to this part of
the world as a result of our being

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displaced during the nineteenth century. And
so that birthplace ranch is a beautiful property

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owned by the state of Oklahoma through
the Historical Society. We worked a few

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years ago on acquiring that property.
There's been been some delays, mostly surrounding

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just the legalities of transferring something of
that nature from the state to the tribe.

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But we finalized it, you know, a couple of weeks ago,

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beautiful ceremony on a beautiful day in
Ooligah, and the properties now ours.

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But this is a great partnership because
the money that we're spending on this property,

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which is around a million dollars,
actually we'll all go back into a

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local Will Rogers museum, and so
we feel good about that investment. We're

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going to upgrade this property and make
it a real showcase, and I think

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it's something everybody will enjoy to get
to understand more about Will Rogers, understand

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more about what was going on in
this part of the world when he was

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born and at the story of Cherokees
trying to make a living off the land

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and during the time in which there
was no state of Oklahoma, but the

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state of Oklahoma was on the horizon. So it's a really interesting way to

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really talk about that part of history. We are talking with the principal chief

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of Cherokee Nation, Chuck Hoskin Junior, and the chief. One of the

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cool things I just crossed our news
desk a couple of days ago as a

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story that we've had on the air
and on our website was that the Cherokee

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Nation federal contractors are in a pretty
nice little group according to the Bloomberg Financial

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folks top two hundred something like that. Yeah. Yeah, this is a

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great story because part of what we've
tried to do with Cherocon Nation is diversis

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fire business is what many people naturally
think about when they think about the business

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side of Cheroken Nation is our casinos
and of course the Hard Rocks our flagship

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and contusive. We have a number
of casinos around the region and gaming is

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good good to us in terms of
revenue and jobs. But really one of

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the best kept secrets is that we
have this robust federal contracting arm called Cherokee

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Federal, which is in all fifty
states, about a dozen or more countries

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around the world, but not just
the geographic presence of Cherokey Nation businesses.

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We're doing well in federal contract and
we have a capacity that's growing to take

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on any number of challenges that the
governing the United States might need us to

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meet. And that creates jobs,
It creates opportunities, and it also again

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you know you don't want to call
your ex in one baskets, will create

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some diversity in our economic portfolio.
That's good and to be recognized as really

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a strong contractor, I think is
something we're proud of. You guys are

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into technology big time, and of
course a big emphasis has been put on

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restoring and can immersing people, more
so in Cherokee Nation with the Cherokee language.

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And you're going with a thing called
an app for that, and they've

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got apps for everything. Now we
have an app for learning Cherokee language.

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That's right, and that's the way
we're going to say the language is to

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make sure it's accessible to people.
Of Course, these days people are accessing

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technology and information via their phones an
app and so We have an app that

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will allow people in this case to
access Cherokee hymns and the New Testament that

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we partnered with a company called Memorize, and we've got twenty Cherokee language lessons

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on Memorize. So we just want
to try, basically in all of the

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above strategy. So we have opportunity
for little kids to be in an immersion

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school. We've got an opportunity for
adults to learn how to speak Cherokee and

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go on to become teachers. But
we want to make sure that the great

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number of people across the country and
around the world I want to access Cherokee

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language can do that whether you're in
Talent Law of Bartlesville or anywhere around the

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world. And so these apps are
a way to do that. And so

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I think the future of language preservation
is certainly tied to technology. We're just

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trying to make sure we keep our
foothold in it. And I think these

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apps, which people can find more
out more about on our website Cherokey dot

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org. I think he's absolutely good. Well, we have a Cherokey worship

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service here on ky one on Sunday, so I Sunday morning audience might want

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to pop that on your phone and
you can follow what's going on just a

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little bit better. But but you
know, it's really pretty good and the

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host does explain a lot of things. But anyway, that's really kind of

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cool getting into the technology aspect of
it all. Going into your second term

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here, Um, what do you
what do you? What are you looking

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for moving forward? Here? Are
you going to build on what you've already

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started or do you have maybe a
new vision? Well, we've got some

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projects, major projects that we need
to see through the Deputy Chief and I

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ground Warner, and the biggest ones
are hospital and Talentquall. We need to

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make sure that that is done and
serves its purpose. And its purpose is

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going to be I think transformational for
healthcare for the chair people because it's going

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to double the size of our hospital
capacity, ad services and really helped round

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out what is an amazing medical campus
in Talentquall that includes a state of the

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art in patient or outpatient facility,
a medical school at Oklahoma State University.

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The other aspect of healthcare though,
that we've got to work on that.

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We have a plan for a five
year plan for is behavioral health focused on

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drug addiction, and so we've got
to build the drug treatment centers that we

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have locked down about one hundred billion
dollars to do, and we can do

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that over the next few years.
So those are some areas we've got to

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work on. We've got to continue
on language preservation and some of the things

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that you and I talk about month
in and month out, including housing and

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taking care of elders. But there
is there are some initiatives that we want

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to start in the second term.
One of them focuses on some grassroots efforts

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for Cherokees to solve their own problems. And I think increasingly people don't want

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to necessarily look to the government,
no matter what the government is, to

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solve their problems. They want the
tools to solve their own problems and their

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own communities. And I think in
the coming year you'll hear tom more from

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or more from us about how local
Cherokees can be empowered to take on their

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own local challenges. And so that's
something to afford. Very good. Chief

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Oskin Junior is Chuck, where can
folks get ahold of your Where can they

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find out everything that's happening in Cherokee
Nation? You have a couple of really

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good websites there where folks can really
tap in and keep up to date.

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So we do that. The hub
of it is our main website, Cherokee

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dot org. Cherokee dot org a
website I like to plug because it's great

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for people that want to experience Cherokee
cultures. Visit Cherokee Nation dot com.

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Whether you want to find out more
about our new art gallery in Zanita,

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or our museum and talent car or
what's going on with Cherokee Holiday. Visit

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Cheroke Nation dot com is a great
site. People can keep up with me

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on social medium at Principal Chief Chuck
Hoskins Junior is me on Facebook, I'm

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on Twitter. You know these days
you got to be everywhere, tom So,

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I try to be everywhere. Yes
you do. And don't forget the

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big Indian Cherokee Nation celebration. The
big anniversary is coming up on Labor Day

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weekend, right, that's right,
Cherokee Holiday, Labor Day weekend. It's

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the biggest event of the year for
us and it keeps getting bigger and bigger.

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So folks can go check that out. If they can do it in

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person, great, If not,
We'll still have some virtual content. And

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I've got it on good authority that
it might be warm that day, I

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think, so drift, you know, drift this lightly, and make sure

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that you consume plenty of nice beverage, because we'll have plenty for sale there.

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Why for everything, And by godding, you might just get hungry,

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so you might want to hit a
food vendor or sit. You won't go

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away hungry, but bring a few
dollars. And yeah, bring a few

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dollars. Walk around and you'll be
burnard off, so it'll be calorie neutral.

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Chief Chuck Hoskin Junior, thank you
very much for being with us today.

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All right, thank you my friends. All right,