Good money, Good morning, good morning, welcome, welcome up, and
it's time now for Cherokee Chat right here on K one, the one you
tries John Weston, how you doing You bring friends all the time. We're
doing great, Tom, How are you doing great? Hey? Maria?
Here you going to I'm good to see you. Great to be seen.
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couple of our at large communities. We went to why I say we the
folks at NAFFI, Chris Crane, Bill Davis, and Charlie Crane. We
all went up to the Kansas City Cherokee community they have up there. It
was a great event. The Chief Deputy Chief, several dignitaries and elected officials
were there. We had a lot of Cherokee Nation services, if one understanding,
over nine hundred people in attendance. Nine hundred. That's a good start.
That's great, isn't it. Yeah, And for those who don't know,
outside the Cherokee Reservation, we have Cherokees all across the country. In
fact, our largest collection of Cherokees we have are in California, twenty two
thousand. We have over sixteen thousand in Kansas, eighteen thousand in Texas.
We even have them in New Hampshire, New York State, Vermont, Rhode
Island, I mean everywhere. In fact, when I worked for the campaign,
I was surprised when I actually got a call from somebody living in Greece
because they were requesting an absentee ballot so they could vote in our Cherokee Nation
elections. Yeah. I like that. Yeah, it's kind of interesting.
International, that's right, that's right, that's just in a nice wing too,
a Cherokee International tell chief. Yeah exactly. So here, ay,
I have someone who's almost as well known as a Cherokee nation and a great
ambassador for Bartsville. She's the executive director of Visit Bartsville. She never fails
to support our Native communities. Maria Gus, How are you? I'm good.
How are you? John? It's so good to see you. I'm
so happy to be on Cherokee Chat. That's very exciting. So episode three,
all right, So did you get a chance to watch the oscars?
I did. I watched the entire thing, as I'm sure anyone who watched
it, the seeing the Osage singers and drummers perform, it was just it
was amazing, incredible to see that. Yeah, I have chills just talking
about it. So it was wonderful to see all that Indigenous representation on the
stage. And I was so proud of this group of people that came here
to tell this story in our neck of the woods. Absolutely, and I
just went of course, we were all rooting for Killers of Flower Moon,
and to our Osage friends out there, we say hallway or hawavey, which
means helloing on whom you're addressing anyway. I just thought that was important to
shout out to them. Absolutely, just a quick question, what sort of
impact did that movie have specifically on Bartsville, both economically and culturally. So
of course it was our privilege to be able to support our o Sage neighbors.
The bulk of filming all took place in the Oceage Nation. There was
just as small little bit that took place in Bartlesville in the Cherokee Nation,
so that was great, but we were able to serve as the production office
was here. They had converted one of the airport hangars into a sound stage,
and of course many people stayed here, went out to eat, spent
those per diems going to restaurants. But the economic impact for f y twenty
one was a little over thirty million dollars, and the fiscal impact, which
is what I like to talk about because that's sales tax and lodging tax that's
measurable, was around six hundred and forty nine thousand dollars. That's tax dollars
that came back into our compute community from the cast and crew that we're living
and staying here. You know, they were here for almost eight months,
so some people were here longer. They literally became part of our community yes
time. And so to see that kind of economic impact, which is that
you know large uh, you know, dropping the bucket that spreads wide was
great. But to also recognize that there was a huge fiscal impact, especially
coming off of COVID and being able to have that sort of injection into our
economy. And I want to make sure people know too, it's it's not
gone. Last year we had about six productions that were here either for part
or in their entirety, and a big part of that was because of the
Cherokee Nation Film rebate. The state has an incentive of course that is substantial,
but the chair Nation has one as well, and so it's been a
thrill to work with the Cherokee Nation Film Office. Tavestrowsky is the director and
of course Jennifer Lauren is the overseeing the whole program, and so they've just
been wonderful partners to a lot of folks. May know Jennifer from OCO TV.
Correct. I know that they have a great presence at it WASO just
recently completed a sound stage there. They broke ground last year. I don't
know if it's quite done yet, but it's going to be fantastic, and
they want to produce Cherokee and Indigenous stories there and help train Indigenous and Cherokee
people to work in that industry. It's really going to be a fantastic thing
for all of Northeast. I have a friend and she often says, if
we don't tell our story, who will? And I think it's a very
I think it's a very wonderful statement to make, because we are the authors
of our own stories, and if we don't perpetuate our history and educate people
about our history but also know that we're here, that I think that we
run the risk of forgetting those absolutely most important to our culture. And they're
doing such a great job. Absolutely. So you mentioned that there was there
was actually another filming film crew that was here for a movie called It was
a Cotton cotton Mouth so Rebellion Studios, which is located in Tulsa. They
came here last year and they made several films, but cotton Mouth was one
that not only took advantage of the Cherokee Nation film rebate, but also had
several Indigenous people in the cast and they filmed entirely almost entirely at Prairie Song
and Dewey, but cotton Mouth. You know, they spent they had an
estimated spend of around two hundred and forty three thousand dollars, and their fiscal
impact was, you know, a little smaller. It wasn't Killers of the
Flower Moon, but thirteen thousand dollars is a chump change. And their economic
impact, that sort of ripple effect was around, was over half a million
dollars. And they actually just came back last weekend to do a little bit
more shooting some b roll. But they've been fantastic partners Rebellion, and so
we're really lucky to be able to work with Randy Wayne and Talia Bella.
They've just been so good to bring people here to Oklahoma. And we've had
other scouts for different projects and I can't talk about all of them, but
I'm excited. Ye, we're becoming the Hollywood of Oklahoma. Really well,
we're doing all right. Yeah, We're getting a lot of attention, and
it's because we have such a welcoming community and we have the corporate presence here
that allows a business, which is what a film is, to sort of
eat seamlessly maneuver through what they need and get access to the support that they
need. And I had one producer say, you know, I can get
anywhere in like ten minutes in town and it's amazing. There's no you know,
traffic is exactly loud airplane noises overhead. So we are a really great
location to film. And we don't have people who act like creepy fans when
they're shooting, right. I mean they've been there occasionally, but it's not
anything like playing. You might get one or two people that are curious onlookers,
but the rest they realize they're working, they are and they and I've
I've tried to really make sure people know, you know, just to be
cool so that we'll continue to get more of that kind of business here.
Absolutely. Yeah, well, we certainly thank you for appearing on Cherokee Chack.
I'm so happy. Yeah, I want to go ahead and make a
few announcements, but also I wanted to mention this will be the last broadcast
of this month, and we've had a prize contest going this month. In
fact, Tommy Wildcat our Cherokee National Treasure. He has a handmade flute that
he's had the autographed and that's going to be the price for this month for
our giveaway. We're going to actually announce that on our Facebook page on Easter
Sunday, which is the last day of the month. What you do.
You go to comments section when I post this broadcast and the prize word of
the day for this day is journeys. The previous private previous prize word was
frybread. This word is journeys. This sort of a nod to our sister
radio station up in at KGGF, the mighty six ninety with Friybred Journeys.
The show they have up there was sort of an inspiration for this show.
And speaking of that, I'll be hanging out up there with Chris Crane and
Amy Dollar Hyde KGGF on March twenty fifth. But I think we go on
air at nine to nine, little after nine o'clock, so that should be
fun. It promises to be a fun show. We never run out of
things to talk about, and so we also have we need to break okay
well, also have a few announcements. The Cherokee Cultural Community and do It's
seven hundred East Durham. We'll be having their potluck meeting at March for March
this Thursday at six pm, Sage Ellison of Sagebrush Beads. She'll be talking
about some of the beating classes she'll be having there. In fact, I
think they're having a beating class there in April sixth from ten am to noon,
and you can sign up at the meeting March twenty third. You had
mentioned this earlier, so what do you know about that March twenty third spring
gathering. The Delaware Tribe is having a wonderful spring gathering. You can get
more information at visit Bartlesville dot com and also at the Delaware Tribe's website.
But they're going to have frybread, they're going to have stomp dancing, they're
going to have cultural demonstrations, they're gonna have an Easter egg hunt, they're
going to have cornhole competition. They're going to have a bouncy house for the
kids, and of course all these things happened throughout the course of the day.
I think it starts at eight am they start serving breakfast, and then
yeah, it kind of goes from there, and I think the stomp dance
begins at seven pm. And then we also know it's more than me I
mean, I just know it's on the calendar and I'm going to go out
there. You're gonna be there, show up. Now. We also had
mentioned something about the Versull India Women's Club is going to have a style show
twenty six What's really important to me at Visit Bartlesville is that our tourism partners
understand that we do have so many important cultural aspects to our tourism product.
And so we're doing a demonstration, a showcase with the Bartlesville Indian Women's Club.
We're inviting our tourism partners on Tuesday, March twenty sixth at the Community
Center and they're going to just show how they do that Native American style show.
If you've never seen it, it's so much fun. They talk about
various tribes and the regalia, and then sometimes Carmen Ketcher and Liz Nelson telephon
jokes. I was going to say they are now they're not necessarily good jokes,
but but but they're they're jokes. They're they're joke. Laugh. I
guarant yourself repeating. I mean, even if you've grown the list. So
if I hear this, I'm going to be in for it. The next
time I see them for some for making that comment, good buddy. But
also at the Washington County Cherokee Association where I'm secretary, on March twenty six,
at six pm, we're going to have a flint napping class. This
has been an ongoing traditional skills class that's been taught by our president, Steve
Brewer. That's near Oceleda, right next door to the Kouby Skue Health Clinic.
In fact, I brought an eight point today to sort of show you
while we've been working looking on This is called a pre form. Basically,
we do a couple of different techniques to make that. The first is called
percussion flaking, which you actually use something called a bopper, which is just
sort of a blunt instrument to sort of shape the pre form of the point.
And then we use a pressure flaking, which you usually do that with
something it's a little more concentrated, like a piece of antler or bone.
We even have something called an ishy stick, which is something that gives you
a little more leverage if you have a hard time creating that amount of pressure
to put on the point. So anyway, that's going to be a six
pm that evening also they're going to be having the pot luck which I mentioned
that the Cherokee Culture community in Dewey. Just want to remind everyone you can
follow all these communities on your Facebook pages and get information about the upcoming events
they're having. Well, this is absolutely great. Let's salute our sponsor one
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Maria, but thank you both for being here today. Learned a lot as
we always do, and keep up the good work both of you. Thanks
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