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Good morning, good morning, good
morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.

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It is time now for our community
connection and we are joined here today

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with Amanda Scott, the director of
the Lenape Reserve with the Delaware Tribe of

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Indians. And you brought visual aids. I did ah tell us what's going

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on at the shop. So we
have completely went in and I've redone the

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store. Our hours have changed a
little bit, but we are running a

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big cell this week. We've got
twenty percent off store wide. All right,

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yeah, that sounds great. Now
we're located here. Tell everybody where

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we are because some folks they've heard
the name, but they're not so short

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where you're located. We are at
one six six Barber Street in Bartlesville,

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all right. We are located out
there with the Tribe, and that's right

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off Taxedo. It is, and
the nice campus there just you'll find it.

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It's beautiful. I'm working on some
signage right now. Some people have

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a little trouble finding us, but
we're there and we are willing to to

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have everybody come in and see us. And we've got a lot of nice

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stuff in the store. Show us
a little bit of what you got,

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So we have a lot of hand
beaded items like these were handmade by a

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beautiful lady. It's kind of hard
to see there, but we've got things

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like hand beaded. Okay, I'm
gonna do this real quick. Here,

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I'm going to try to zoom in
on you. Here. Here you go,

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beautiful there. I mean, this
is just a very very small selection

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of the items that we carry.
We love hand crafted items. We also

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carry a lot of like patches and
stickers. We've got one here that says

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fry bred spray. We've got some
rock em sock them Battle of the Big

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Little Big Horn stickers. This is
a very very small selection, but we

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also carry a lot of craft supplies. We've got beads, We've got needles,

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we have a lot of Native American
traditional items for people to come in

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for their regalia. They can make
the ribbon skirts. We have ribbon.

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We've got fabric, we've got broadcloth. We also have a lot of Delaware

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Tribe seal items. Titon. We
bought Titon out a couple of years ago,

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you day, Delaware Tribe did so
now that's Delaware owned and yeah,

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we just we just want to get
people in there and which got in the

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box. Here. This is a
Pendleton coffee mug. Okay that up there

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real quick. That's big, that'll
hold anything you need. This is a

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very nice, nice gift item.
And we do have a lot of gift

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items for anybody that wants to come
in and see us and you just can't

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find the right thing. We also
have layaway. We've got shoes. Titon

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has a line of shoes and there's
probably about seven or eight different styles.

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Those are nice. These are very
nice. You're wearing some right now,

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I do, and I would like
you to fill inside that and feel how

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comfy these really truly are shoes with
so I just brought one style, but

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we have several to accommodate anybody's taste. There you go. Oh my goodness,

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sakes, Now, this is a
wonderful addition to already a kind of

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a cool uh selection that we have
throughout our community with retail. But this

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this also kind of takes care of
home too, doesn't it. Well,

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yeah it doesn't. It is for
anybody. But like I said, we've

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we've got cultural gifts. We do
have a lot of cultural gift items handmade.

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Like I said, the bead of
these here these little rattles. Kids

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love these, they do. And
these are all handmade. Wow, you

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can tell, you can you can
really tell. This is a serape,

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this is a this is one of
many. Okay, wow, look at

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that beautiful, absolutely beautiful. I
couldn't bring the whole store. I wanted

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to. I know your enthusiasm talking
about jumping up and down out there on

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the side of the street going shop
here, shop here, but you'd wear

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yourself out. It's a beautiful store, it really is. And I encourage

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everybody, even if you don't need
a gift, just come see me.

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Come see what we got and see
what what we offer for everybody. How

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long you been in business over there? Two years? Two years? And

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this has really been really been something. I know people who have gone in

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and shop, they just say,
wow, it's best kept secret in town.

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Yeah. Absolutely, But we're getting
ready to put it on blasts.

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I've got lots of flags coming,
I've got signage coming around town. We're

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getting out there now. That's called
the Le Nafi Reservants right there at the

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campus of the of the Delaware Tribe. Here you go. That's how you

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spelled it there, folks. You
can get that put that on your old

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vehicle there. Do a little advertising
too that wouldn't hurt wouldn't wouldn't hurt you?

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And look at that. Wow,
that is really nice. It's a

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very very nice place, indeed,
and you must have must be like a

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like a you know, a thing
of passion for you, because you seem

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to be so really your heart's in
this. Yeah, I do enjoy the

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people. The people that you meet, and the people that I get to

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work with on a daily We're all
a bunch of characters to begin with,

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but everybody down there is very nice, very nice, and we do a

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lot for the community. We try. I've been doing this type of customer

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service base for a few years now, so my heart is in it and

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I do enjoy it. I really
really do. It's a labor of love.

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Yeah, absolutely indeed. And you
know, like you say, you've

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got different things, you've got you
can do some lightweight type. Yeah,

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we offer layaway. Wow that when
you start getting into this regalia, whenever

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you start buying things to make their
ribbon skirts and their ribbon shirts, I

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mean it does get a little pricy. It does get a little pricy.

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Yeah, worth it though. It
is a beautiful. It is beautiful.

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The building that my store is located
in, there is also a museum,

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so you could come in and you
could see a lot of We have tons

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and tons of pictures. We also
have a library in there. The lady

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that runs that department, she is
out this week though, so don't anticipate

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coming in and talking to her this
way, okay, but she will be

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back next week. But the museum
is open. There's a lot of people

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there that have a lot of knowledge. I'm still learning myself, but like

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I said, there's a lot of
really good people. See whenever we converse

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with our friends from the Delaware tribe, they're all really young like you,

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and they say the same thing.
I thought I knew a lot, but

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every day I learned a whole lot
more. Yeah, and it's kind of

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like this knowledge quest. It's beautiful. And you know some of the stories

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that go back in time. I
remember one of the gentlemen was actually talking

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about back when you know, the
tribe was still back out east. There's

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a story of when the squirrels ate
us, and science has backed that up

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because there was a bear about ten
thousand years ago that looked a little bit

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like a squirrel and it was basically
a carnivore. And it's amazing how the

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story just was right up there with
the science and everything else like that.

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It's a beautiful but that but that
bear is extinct. I don't know if

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the tribe had anything to do with
keeping that away, but anyway, it

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is one of those one of those
stories that you say, oh, wow,

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that's just a cute little story and
then you find out, well,

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it's based in science because it did
actually happen. Yeah, there is there

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is some science and some history back
behind that. One thing. One thing

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I'm learning is I get to know
more about our various tribes here in our

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area, and especially the Delaware with
the language. The jokes are funnier because

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the language is a little bit more
colorful. It is. It is,

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It's beautiful. It's I mean,
even if you don't have Native American background,

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it is still a very beautiful subject
to indulge in. It's our human

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history, is it is? It
absolutely understand is this area has a lot

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of cultural history. It does,
and a lot of people just don't think

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about that on a daily no.
I mean some of that history kind of

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merged with everything in a whirlwind at
the time when you know removal took place.

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Yeah, and that history is everybody's
history. But boy, I want

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to tell you those who are Native
American it's very unique to them. Absolutely,

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absolutely, Once again, the story
is out there at one sixty six

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Barbarant Street. And if you don't
know where Barber Street is, look for

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the big campus there for the Delaware
Tribe of Indians out there on Tuxedo right

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out there by Sooner Park by the
fire Kitty Court from the fire to park

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right over. It's just before the
golf course there, just before the golf

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course. But I'm like I said, we're getting some signs out. People

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are going to know where we are
eventually. But if you do come down

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there, everybody's real helpful. They'll
point you in the right direction. You

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bet. It's beautiful friends and neighbors. That is all it is. Yeah.

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Now, do you have a Facebook
page or a website where folks can

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maybe see what's going on, like
you got events? Yeah, you can

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go on the Delaware Tribe on Facebook
and then Lenape Reserve has their own face.

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Yeah. Okay, wow, Yeah, so you are rooting, tooting

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and getting it out there. I'm
getting in there. Yeah, she's fired

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up, folks. You better watch
it. She might just give you a

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sale price and you won't even know
it. I'll give you. I'll give

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you a sell price you cannot resist. Well, thanks for bringing in half

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the store. Yeah, that way
people got a little bit of a chance

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to see what's going on and everything
from large to small toy in between a

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few things of course, had to
remain at the store. Folks. Come

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on, I mean, it is
a business and she's only one woman.

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Okay, but I'm doing it.
But she's doing it. Thank you for

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coming in. This is great.
Don't be a stranger. Of course,

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we like to have the We visit
with the Delaware tribe probably about once or

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twice a month here on commun connection, and we'd like to have you back

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again sometime soon, maybe the next
time you got a big sale going on.

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Right, that sounds good to me, all right, Amanda Scott. Thanks