Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.
It's time now for Charon key Chat is the name of our program here
today, and we have with this Misty Wishall and John Weston and welcome back
to the scene of the crime. We were just here by a week ago,
weren't we. That's right, it's Stajavoo all over again. Tom,
But tell us a little bit about something. We're going to be doing this
on Monday's alternating Mondays here for yes, we are for for a good long
while here. So tell the folks what we're all about and what's going to
happen. Well, I was approached when we had the meeting here with Lieutenant
Governor Padel and the Chief Chief Hoskin by Lyle Martin. He's the president of
the Coffee ill Cooperative Credit Union. And there's a show that they have up
in KGGF one of your stations up there, six ninety, that's right,
and it's called fry Red Journeys, and it covers a lot of the issues,
you know, concerning a lot of the communities we have, education,
a lot of the issues affecting the tribe. And so we thought, hey,
hey, why don't We have a program down here like this that covers
the communities that we have here in District twelve, which is basically a no
Wada and well parts of no Wada in Washington County, a little bit of
Rogers and and just you know, just let everyone know what's going on the
communities, but also let maybe people know what's going on with Cherokee Nation,
you know, just kind of bring awareness to some of these things. And
what we feel is we want to be a show that's not limited in scope
because we feel that all cultures have something to contribute, they all have value.
So you know, we have the Lenape, the Delaware tribe of Indians
here in Barnasville. They're headquartered here in Barnsville. We have the oce Age
over in Osage County, of course, and you know, we have the
Shawnee, who are kind of in our area and they're adopted Yes you're Shawnee.
Yeah, and they were adopted Cherokee. I got to talk to you
about that, Yeah, yeah, absolutely, and uh. And so you
know, we we want to cover kind of all of our bases with it,
but also things that are important for the community. And you know,
we have a concept in Cherokee Nation and something that we're kind of ingrained with,
and it's it's a concept that a lot of people, especially in Cherokee
Nation. It's called kadugie and that just means community. And basically, in
the early days of the tribe, if people were in need, you had
a group of people they would go around and they would do different things for
those people and if it was baking bread or say chopping wood or whatever they
needed to help them out. And I think that, I really think that
as a people, we have carried that with us, those traditions with us
on through the years. And I think really if you think about it,
for example, we went you know through the trail teers. We've had a
lot of adversity in our tribe. And I really believe that the only thing
you really learned from that, the most valuable lesson you learned from that is
the only thing you can really depend on is one another. And I think
the goodoogie, in the spirit of goodogi, I think that's what we do
is as a community between CCC and w c c A and NAFIE and you
know, we the communities, you know, we've all learned to work together
we always try to help each other out. And I think that that's it's
just part of being a Cherokee community. But the cool thing about that is,
and how I see it benefiting our community here in Bartsville, is that
we carry that over in the communities that we live in too. You know,
we try to serve our communities. In fact, we have somebody with
us here today that's no strength. I was gonna say, by God,
that's where you got that? You yes, exactly right. It's it's her
Cherokee. It's her Cherokee heritage showing through. And you know, but but
I'm really happy to have her with us here today as a guest. She's
a terrific person. She has such a heart for this community and she's the
current director of the Mary Martha Outreach here in Barnsville. And it's good to
have you with us today. And mister, you have a big event coming
we do. Yes. This Saturday, March ninth, we have our annual
five K fundraiser Shamrock Theville, and it's our only fundraiser for Catholic charities Mary
Martha Outreach and most people are familiar with that, but it's food pantry and
crisis help here in Bartlesville, and we're taking sign ups until noon on Wednesday,
and it's our fifteenth year, so we're really hoping to make it our
biggest yet. So so, how have you seen it grow over the years,
Well, just the word of mouth and just helping. I think Facebook
has helped a lot. As of this morning, we have six hundred and
twenty one runners, so we're really breathing down our goal or our record's next,
so we're really hopeful us do it. How many did you start out
with, like in your first few years, Well, that was prior to
my time, but I mean since I've been there, we've had between five
and six seven hundred so and this will be my six to one so but
yeah, I mean it's just grown every year. So and so the proceeds
go to benefit Mary Martha Allensolu. It is do you guys provide any other
services? We do, so we have a clothing room and we also have
furniture and crisis help and for we help with burnout and domestic violence victims.
We work closely with the Delaware Tribe and Ray of Hope and any other community
agency that may need us. So we're we're being a community collaborator. Collaborator
is one of our top priorities. So you have a you have a website
for Shamrock We do. It's shamrock theeviille dot com. Yeah, it's pretty
us. Yes, we're still looking for volunteers because we put them on each
street corner. But you can still pre register for twenty five dollars until the
day of it's thirty five. So and the T shirts are super cool.
So if anything, sign up to get a T shirt. I sign absolutely.
I'm not a runner neither. You don't have to, that's right.
You can walk and you can just come cheer. Yeah, exactly right.
You can be a couch runner. That's a lazy boy caest pilot. Yes
you can. We actually have a cheering from the couch, right, And
so you're going to be giving out, you're gonna be having contests at Shamrockville.
Well, we used to have cow traces, but those got they could
be dangerous. But actually, now that it's chipped in timed, people don't
have to wait to get the final numbers in for their time and the results.
So people kind of got a little bored. They wanted to find out
you know right then, so we're able to find out the runners the winners.
So we don't do that anymore. But we just have fun, you
know. We have a photo booth and we just there's a lot of a
sea of green. We just it's just a great community event. So where
are you located? So Catholic Charity's is located right behind United Supermarket on eighteen
forty five West Fourth and we're open Monday through Thursday for our food pantry Monday
through Wednesday nine to eleven, Thursdays twelve to two. And the race will
be downtown at the Tower Center Unity Square. Yes, we started that back
the first year was open. As a matter of fact, were under instruction
still when we started the first race down there. So we're excited. It's
a great spot and a great place for our community as well. Great and
so Shamrock the Ville is happening March ninth. Proceeds go to benefit Mary Martha
Outreach. What a great service you provide. Registration goes from seven forty five
to eight forty five. Does for people that haven't already pre registered to packet
pick up on Thursday Thursday for those that have pre registered, and then they
can still register the day of and so the five k begins at nine and
the nine shot yeah about nine oh five, and that's a one mile fun
run walk me too, me too. It's just a great time, really
is. And you can download a form to enter at shamrock Theviille dot com.
You can or do it electronically as well, or even if you want
to volunteer, absolutely still looking for a few volunteers. You will get a
pre t shirt if you volunteer. Okay, John, these are collectors items,
are I know? Yeah, but I'm also wearing a collector's item.
This is my my cherokey. Yeah, I'm wearing it because tomorrow, if
if you remember, is the is the primary for presidential primary SIS and and
so you go vote at your local precinct or polling location and the polls open
at seven and they close at seven. So it's very important. I think
voting is right. We definitely need the exercise so we don't lose it.
Absolutely, And if you don't vote, I don't feel you have a right
to complain. No, definitely use a little bit more colorful, yeah exactly,
yeah, not for the radio. So, by the way, Misty,
we're able to get up to CCC for the Taco Indian Talk. I
didn't get to make it to the tacos, but I was there last week
for the big announcement for the Cherokee services that's going to be implemented. It's
it's going to be fantastic with the Chief has just really brought a lot to
the community. When and Dora Pitskowski and we just tribal counselor yes, yes,
so we have you know the Oceleda area now CCC and Dewey so people
proceeds for last weekend went for Operation EAG people they're going to have a spring
pow wow usually at the Washington kind of fair grounds and so but those ladies
they make some great tacos. I'd love to see how that turned out.
Absolutely. I know I was working the elections downtown or I would have gone,
uh, And I was like, I was hoping somebody would take mercy
on me and bring me an Indian taco. But that never man. Yeah,
we have stripped out in our house over the weekend. Yeah. So
so every month on Cherokee Talk, we're going to have a giveaway for an
awesome prize for the listeners. Uh to enter. You have to follow us
on Facebook. That's great. Yeah, and we we're gonna we have a
prize post that we're going to do. Uh. And if you responded that
in post in the post and the comments section, that enters you for a
chance to win. Now, I have a prize word if you listen to
this broadcast that you have to enter in the comments. And the prize word
for this month is going to be fry bread. That's a little lot to
our friends up at AGGF to do fried bread journeys, Chris Crane and Amy
Dollar Hyde. So anyway, and this month's prize is a autographed handmade flute
by Cherokee National Trade through Tommy Wildcat. He's very well known. Yes,
fact, he's been a featured on National Geographic Discovery Channel. Uh. He
was in a American Express commercial when they had a Charge the Hunger campaign that
played during a Beatles anthology. I mean, he is, he is well
known, just a multitude of awards, and he's an all around humble,
great guy. He is, you know, and he's a big guy with
a big heart. You know, he really is, and you know,
and he wants to take the time to talk with you about Cherokee culture language.
I mean, I learned so much from him just just traveling around the
same circles, you know. But yeah, hold up, yeah, let's
hold this up. This is the autograph flute. Yeah there you go,
right there. Yeah, and the autography is right there. That is Tommy
Wildcat's signature. Yeah. Absolutely. And he makes he handmakes these. He
goes and gathers the river cane. Uh. He he sort of sendes the
edges and I know he drills them out and drills the holes. And I've
watched him. He's done videos and how he does the process, and it's
pretty amazing how he just goes out and collects him and builds a flute.
You know. Top of that, he plays like nobody's business. Oh absolutely,
Yeah. Well, I'm also want to do a few announcements about our
communities that we have here. She mentioned CCC, which is the Cherokee Culture
Community. It's located at seven hundred East Durham and Dewey. You turn east
right before you get to the Dollar General on the southern edge of town.
During this time of year, the community meetings are typically on Saturdays at noon,
and that's for daylight savings time because We realize that a lot of attendees
have a difficulty driving at night, so as a courtesy to those folks,
they try to have Saturday meetings so that more people can have an opportunity to
do attend But I think that this month we're going back to third Thursday.
This month, they're going back to their third Thursday and those meetings are usually
at six six pm. And hey, here's the thing too. They usually
post post about their meetings on their Facebook page and keep you up current on
events, so be sure to follow the Cherokee Cultural Community Facebook page in Dewey.
And the other exciting thing which Misdy alluded to is the establishment of two
Cherokee Nation offices to help our tribal citizens. One is the Cherokee Nation Career
Services and the other human resources offices that we have. Career Services is open
from eight to five Monday through Friday. Feel free to drop in the human
resources office now it's not quite open yet, yeah, but it's going to
be open soon, very soon. So that's going to be another way we
can provide services for Cherokees in this area. Now at the Washington County Cherokee
Association in Oceanida, that's next door the Kuyskui Health Clinic, where I'm secretary
of the board. We'll be hosting a Cherokee National Treasurer, Danny McCarter,
who specializes in traditional Cherokee weaponry to includes the boat, making, blow dart
guns and blow darts. He's very knowledgeable about Cherokee history and culture. In
fact, we're going to have a live demonstration right there in our building of
him using a blow dart gun making blow darts. I hope my fingers are
crossed that all is going to go well. Remember Xhale don't in here.
Yeah, yeah, And we're going to probably distribute the safety I word everyone,
just to be on the safe side. Anyway. That's Thursday evening,
March seventh, and six pm. All right, I want to thank you.
I think this went very very well Cherokee Chatter first episode with thanks John
Weston and Misty Wishall. Thank you very much for being here with us.
Oh, absolutely, Tomas. Looking forward to hearing about another week and a
half, two weeks something like that. All right, stay tuned, We've
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