Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.
It is time now for our community connection and we are joined here today
with Amanda Scott, the director of the Lenape Reserve with the Delaware Tribe of
Indians. And you brought visual aids. I did ah tell us what's going
on at the shop. So we have completely went in and I've redone the
store. Our hours have changed a little bit, but we are running a
big cell this week. We've got twenty percent off store wide. All right,
yeah, that sounds great. Now we're located here. Tell everybody where
we are because some folks they've heard the name, but they're not so short
where you're located. We are at one six six Barber Street in Bartlesville,
all right. We are located out there with the Tribe, and that's right
off Taxedo. It is, and the nice campus there just you'll find it.
It's beautiful. I'm working on some signage right now. Some people have
a little trouble finding us, but we're there and we are willing to to
have everybody come in and see us. And we've got a lot of nice
stuff in the store. Show us a little bit of what you got,
So we have a lot of hand beaded items like these were handmade by a
beautiful lady. It's kind of hard to see there, but we've got things
like hand beaded. Okay, I'm gonna do this real quick. Here,
I'm going to try to zoom in on you. Here. Here you go,
beautiful there. I mean, this is just a very very small selection
of the items that we carry. We love hand crafted items. We also
carry a lot of like patches and stickers. We've got one here that says
fry bred spray. We've got some rock em sock them Battle of the Big
Little Big Horn stickers. This is a very very small selection, but we
also carry a lot of craft supplies. We've got beads, We've got needles,
we have a lot of Native American traditional items for people to come in
for their regalia. They can make the ribbon skirts. We have ribbon.
We've got fabric, we've got broadcloth. We also have a lot of Delaware
Tribe seal items. Titon. We bought Titon out a couple of years ago,
you day, Delaware Tribe did so now that's Delaware owned and yeah,
we just we just want to get people in there and which got in the
box. Here. This is a Pendleton coffee mug. Okay that up there
real quick. That's big, that'll hold anything you need. This is a
very nice, nice gift item. And we do have a lot of gift
items for anybody that wants to come in and see us and you just can't
find the right thing. We also have layaway. We've got shoes. Titon
has a line of shoes and there's probably about seven or eight different styles.
Those are nice. These are very nice. You're wearing some right now,
I do, and I would like you to fill inside that and feel how
comfy these really truly are shoes with so I just brought one style, but
we have several to accommodate anybody's taste. There you go. Oh my goodness,
sakes, Now, this is a wonderful addition to already a kind of
a cool uh selection that we have throughout our community with retail. But this
this also kind of takes care of home too, doesn't it. Well,
yeah it doesn't. It is for anybody. But like I said, we've
we've got cultural gifts. We do have a lot of cultural gift items handmade.
Like I said, the bead of these here these little rattles. Kids
love these, they do. And these are all handmade. Wow, you
can tell, you can you can really tell. This is a serape,
this is a this is one of many. Okay, wow, look at
that beautiful, absolutely beautiful. I couldn't bring the whole store. I wanted
to. I know your enthusiasm talking about jumping up and down out there on
the side of the street going shop here, shop here, but you'd wear
yourself out. It's a beautiful store, it really is. And I encourage
everybody, even if you don't need a gift, just come see me.
Come see what we got and see what what we offer for everybody. How
long you been in business over there? Two years? Two years? And
this has really been really been something. I know people who have gone in
and shop, they just say, wow, it's best kept secret in town.
Yeah. Absolutely, But we're getting ready to put it on blasts.
I've got lots of flags coming, I've got signage coming around town. We're
getting out there now. That's called the Le Nafi Reservants right there at the
campus of the of the Delaware Tribe. Here you go. That's how you
spelled it there, folks. You can get that put that on your old
vehicle there. Do a little advertising too that wouldn't hurt wouldn't wouldn't hurt you?
And look at that. Wow, that is really nice. It's a
very very nice place, indeed, and you must have must be like a
like a you know, a thing of passion for you, because you seem
to be so really your heart's in this. Yeah, I do enjoy the
people. The people that you meet, and the people that I get to
work with on a daily We're all a bunch of characters to begin with,
but everybody down there is very nice, very nice, and we do a
lot for the community. We try. I've been doing this type of customer
service base for a few years now, so my heart is in it and
I do enjoy it. I really really do. It's a labor of love.
Yeah, absolutely indeed. And you know, like you say, you've
got different things, you've got you can do some lightweight type. Yeah,
we offer layaway. Wow that when you start getting into this regalia, whenever
you start buying things to make their ribbon skirts and their ribbon shirts, I
mean it does get a little pricy. It does get a little pricy.
Yeah, worth it though. It is a beautiful. It is beautiful.
The building that my store is located in, there is also a museum,
so you could come in and you could see a lot of We have tons
and tons of pictures. We also have a library in there. The lady
that runs that department, she is out this week though, so don't anticipate
coming in and talking to her this way, okay, but she will be
back next week. But the museum is open. There's a lot of people
there that have a lot of knowledge. I'm still learning myself, but like
I said, there's a lot of really good people. See whenever we converse
with our friends from the Delaware tribe, they're all really young like you,
and they say the same thing. I thought I knew a lot, but
every day I learned a whole lot more. Yeah, and it's kind of
like this knowledge quest. It's beautiful. And you know some of the stories
that go back in time. I remember one of the gentlemen was actually talking
about back when you know, the tribe was still back out east. There's
a story of when the squirrels ate us, and science has backed that up
because there was a bear about ten thousand years ago that looked a little bit
like a squirrel and it was basically a carnivore. And it's amazing how the
story just was right up there with the science and everything else like that.
It's a beautiful but that but that bear is extinct. I don't know if
the tribe had anything to do with keeping that away, but anyway, it
is one of those one of those stories that you say, oh, wow,
that's just a cute little story and then you find out, well,
it's based in science because it did actually happen. Yeah, there is there
is some science and some history back behind that. One thing. One thing
I'm learning is I get to know more about our various tribes here in our
area, and especially the Delaware with the language. The jokes are funnier because
the language is a little bit more colorful. It is. It is,
It's beautiful. It's I mean, even if you don't have Native American background,
it is still a very beautiful subject to indulge in. It's our human
history, is it is? It absolutely understand is this area has a lot
of cultural history. It does, and a lot of people just don't think
about that on a daily no. I mean some of that history kind of
merged with everything in a whirlwind at the time when you know removal took place.
Yeah, and that history is everybody's history. But boy, I want
to tell you those who are Native American it's very unique to them. Absolutely,
absolutely, Once again, the story is out there at one sixty six
Barbarant Street. And if you don't know where Barber Street is, look for
the big campus there for the Delaware Tribe of Indians out there on Tuxedo right
out there by Sooner Park by the fire Kitty Court from the fire to park
right over. It's just before the golf course there, just before the golf
course. But I'm like I said, we're getting some signs out. People
are going to know where we are eventually. But if you do come down
there, everybody's real helpful. They'll point you in the right direction. You
bet. It's beautiful friends and neighbors. That is all it is. Yeah.
Now, do you have a Facebook page or a website where folks can
maybe see what's going on, like you got events? Yeah, you can
go on the Delaware Tribe on Facebook and then Lenape Reserve has their own face.
Yeah. Okay, wow, Yeah, so you are rooting, tooting
and getting it out there. I'm getting in there. Yeah, she's fired
up, folks. You better watch it. She might just give you a
sale price and you won't even know it. I'll give you. I'll give
you a sell price you cannot resist. Well, thanks for bringing in half
the store. Yeah, that way people got a little bit of a chance
to see what's going on and everything from large to small toy in between a
few things of course, had to remain at the store. Folks. Come
on, I mean, it is a business and she's only one woman.
Okay, but I'm doing it. But she's doing it. Thank you for
coming in. This is great. Don't be a stranger. Of course,
we like to have the We visit with the Delaware tribe probably about once or
twice a month here on commun connection, and we'd like to have you back
again sometime soon, maybe the next time you got a big sale going on.
Right, that sounds good to me, all right, Amanda Scott. Thanks