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Good money, good money. Good
morning, Welcome, welcome, welcome this

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time now for Cherokee Chat, and
we have John Weston in with this here

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today. How you doing, John, I am doing great. Tom.

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I want to say o ceo nagata
ostasana lei, which means hello everyone,

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Good morning, Welcome to another edition
of Cherokee Chat. How are you Tom?

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As you survive the weekend? I
did. We had a great weekend,

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and I hope, well you look
great. You know, I know

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you've been moving. You took a
little time off yesterday just to celebrate exactly.

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Yeah. Yeah, it's it's been
a chore of for sure the last

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week or so. Like I was
telling you earlier. You know, it's

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amazing after twenty years of marriage,
you know, nearly twenty years of marriage.

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It's how much you accumulate, how
much stuff you actually have, and

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then you start to question, why
do I have all this stuff? Oh?

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You know, so it's uh,
yeah, it's definitely a learning experience.

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I want to give a shout out
to our sister station up in Cofferville,

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the mighty sixth ninety KGTF. I
was up there last Monday for fry

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Bread Journeys with Chris Crane and Amy
Dollar. We had a great time up

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there. It was great to see
the KGGF studio. You know, you

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hear about it all the time.
It's great to actually be there. Wow

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it is. You know, it's
right off the main drag about a block

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or two and it left to the
left and you can't miss it. Exactly.

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Good fun and as always, would
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So a couple of weekends ago, I

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went out to the Delaware Tribe of
Indians. They had their spring gathering.

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They had fun and they had fun. Yeah, I love them going out

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there. They had the course of
the visit from the Easter Buddy. They

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had face panting for the kids,
a cornhole tournament, had a great Native

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art market, and as usual,
I brought a lot of stuff home that

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I want to have to find places
for now now that you're moving. Yes,

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that's exactly right. Yeah, yeah, I'd never leave with an armload

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of stuff from one of those native
art markets, no kidding. Yeah.

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But anyway, just a few events
that we have coming up. On April

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fourth, the Washington County Cherokee Association
will be having our April Community Meeting.

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Our guests will be Brad Wagnan.
He's the Community Preparedness Coordinator with Cherokee Nation

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Emergency Management. He'll be discussing emergency
preparedness, especially within the context of the

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potential for storms that might be coming
up. So we're getting into that season

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kids, the season exactly yeah,
kinds of hail, kind of Miss Saint

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Travs Wicked Weather Show. I used
to come through remember those, Yeah,

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they were great. But the medium
begins at six pm with our pot like

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at six point thirty, followed by
our presenter. And if you don't know

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where the WCCA is located, we're
right next to the Kuyskui Health Clinton near

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Oschleda. You can follow us on
Facebook. And the other cool thing that

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we're having coming up which is something
I really love. On April eighth,

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we're going to have our first tomahawk
practice of spring. And this is something

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that was started a couple of years
ago between some of the area community Cherokee

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Communities in AFI and South Cokinville CCC, the Cherokee Cultural Community in Dewey in

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Washington County, Cherokee Association, the
Bocahontas Women's Club from Claremore, the Kansas

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City Cherokee Community even comes down.
That's assist organization to the inn AFI community

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up there, and it's something that's
a rivalry we have started. It's really

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fun. We gave each other a
lot of grief on our pages, and

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the great thing is it's really building
community. And anytime you can get together

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and have fun and do something cultural, I think it's a great way.

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It goes a long way to building
community. So anyway, April eighth,

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six point thirty in our community building
near Oschleda, you can look for an

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announcement on our Facebook page and we
encourage everyone to come out, whether you

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have never thrown or whether you're a
throwing ace, and we encourage you to

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bring a launch here in your refreshment. So whatever you want to drink is

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bringing on out there. And also
that day, don't forget the eclipse.

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We have an eclipse coming up and
the totality will be hitting the southeast corner

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of Oklahoma around one forty five.
I have a friend who lives in Broken

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Bow and she was telling me that
they are preparing the emergency. Emergency management

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down in that area is preparing.
It's a town of about four thousand people.

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It's preparing for an influx of one
hundred and twenty five thousand people.

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That's what's estimated to be. Well. I don't doubt that at all.

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H Yeah, it's all up and
down that route. It's crazy because they

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want to see that totality. They
do. And the crazy thing is,

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she said, they're closing down school
the schools. They are encouraging people to

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stock up on groceries, stuck up
on gasoline, and to stay home.

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They said, if you don't have
to travel, don't do it because the

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streets are going to be congested for
a town of four thousand people. And

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they so they're actually calling out the
National Guard to help manage some of the

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logistics of everything that's going on because
they're afraid that the local law enforcement emergency

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services are going to be for four
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half minutes of darkness exactly exactly.
Now, I know it's going to mess

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up the animals. And yeah,
now I went through that when I was

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in college in the late seventies.
I do believe in all places Terahote,

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you don't know if it's light or
dark in there anyway, because it's the

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pollution Indiana. And I just remember
that that was that was a pretty cool

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two or three minutes. Yeah,
and you know, but I've not been.

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I don't think we were in the
totality. We were pretty close.

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But I but for the folks who
are going to witness this, it's going

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to be a lot of fun.
It is. Yeah. Well, like

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I remember as a kid going out
and the coolest thing that I can remember

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about the it was a partial eclipse
and you would see the light filter through

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the leaves on our elm tree in
our front yard. Nice you saw little

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crescent shapes on the ground because it's
kind of actually like a pinhole box that

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you use for you know, you
can do that'azing. Yeah. Yeah,

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So you know, the Cherokee we
believed in an eclipse was a giant frog

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or what we call it what losi
and was eating the sun or the moon,

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depending on whether it was a solar
lunar eclipse. And so we'd go

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outside and scream and make a bunch
of noise to scare the frog so it

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would release the sun of the moon
and bring it back and fun game for

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the kids. Yeah, exactly right. And they said that as time went

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on and we got access to guns
and firecrackers and things like that, they

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go off and set out these noise
makers to bring the sun back. Every

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native culture has a little different spin
on what they eclipses. Yeah. Yeah,

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so that's interesting. So on April
nineteenth, the WCCA, we're holding

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a voter registration drive at our community
building. It's going to be from ten

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am to five pm. Our next
election for Cherokee Nation will be June fifteenth,

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and the registration for that election I
actually closed on March twenty eighth.

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You can request a voter registration form
from the Election Commission. If you're not

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registered to vote, you do have
to register to vote in Cherokee Nation elections.

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It's not something automatic when you have
a tribal card. So anyway,

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you can download that form. You
can fill it out and mail it back

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to the Election at Election Hyphencommission at
Cherokee dot org. It's doubtful it'll reach

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them in time if you send it
by snail mail, so I would recommend

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taking a clear picture of the filled
out form with your camera and emailing it

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back to the EC. That's probably
gonna be the quickest way you're going to

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be able to do that. And
if you have questions for him, for

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example, if you don't know if
you're registered, because some people it may

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have been a long time since they've
actually voted. Their number is nine one

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eight four five eight five eight ninety
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same for absentee ballot request forms.
If you're not going to be around on

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the election day, you can check
with the Election Commission and website at Cherokee

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dot org and they have a downloadable
absentee ballot request form and you can basically

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do the same. If you're registering
to vote, you fill out the forum,

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send it back, email it to
the Election Commission. The deadline for

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that is going to be April fifth, So if you're interested in voting,

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you should do that and they'll be
sending out the absentee ballots around the April

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twenty second, twenty third, and
then we will have the election on June

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fifteenth. And what this election for
is every twenty years or so, Cherokee

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Nation will vote on whether or not
to have a constitutional convention. And it's

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just a way, and it's just
it's kind of interesting because, you know,

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Thomas Jefferson, he had actually recommended
to the US Constitution be examined every

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said every nineteen years, and so
I think the Cherokee Nation is kind of

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wise at adopting that because it's a
way basically, a group of people will

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be impaneled to go around to the
various districts and actually listen to the people

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them, that's it, and find
out, you know, find out if

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Cherokee Nation is being responsive to their
needs. And we think they We think

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the Cherokee Nation has done a great
job, you know, but I think

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it's also important listen to your people
and find out if there are issues that

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are concerning them as well. I
think the Chief has stated that several times

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he doesn't want our government to become
so big that we don't listen to the

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people living here. That's very important
can send the government. So anyway,

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April twenty seventh, we're going to
be having our Cultural Data WCCA now for

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Cherokee Cultural Community up and doing.
On April sixth, Sage Jellison a Sagebrush

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Beads will be instructing a beating class. They had a sign up with their

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last general meeting. If you're still
interested in attending that particular beating class,

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I would call actually I would check
on the CCC Facebook page. Go ahead

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and message them and see if they
have any space left. We basically limit

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the class size to ten participants,
and the reason for that is it's a

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lot easier to oversee ten people working
on different you know, beating beating project

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projects exactly than having to say fifteen
twenty people that are all coming at you

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and asking questions and so it's just
it's just a lot. Yeah, it's

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kind of hectic for her. So
it's just a lot easier to manage.

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And the other thing is we've had
a few people came in and they just

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wanted to observe, which is perfectly
fine. But we we actually have this

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set up for ten participants, you
know, because we want we want people

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to have specialized attention if they're having
difficulty with the project. So and it's

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great. This is actually a project
that's been funded by the Cherokenation Artists Recovery

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Act. We passed had the Chief
had basically we passed it had about three

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million dollars allocated to our artists different
in different ways. Because it was in

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the advent to COVID, they weren't
able to get out and sell their creations.

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And one of the one of the
programs under that Artist Recovery Act are

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these cultural classes. And these classify
as cultural classes the beating classes, and

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so they actually pay for the instructor
to go in, pay for the materials,

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so it's free to the attendees,
you know, and it's something it's

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something really great. I believe that
we've move undertaken. For those who may

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not be aware, there is now
a Cherokenation office at the Community Building in

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Dewey. That building can be found
at seven hundred East Orham. The office

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there now is Career Services. It's
open from eight to five pm Monday through

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Friday. Human Services will be there
soon opening an office from what I understand,

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and we also wanted to announce the
winner of last month's contest that we

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had, we were giving away a
handcrafted, wonderful flute from Cherokee National Treasure

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Tommy Wildcat. The winner of that
is Kinie Carmen, and the congratulations to

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her. Go ahead and reach out
to us on our Cherokee Chat Facebook page.

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You can message us or message me
at Cherokee Chat radio dot com or

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actually dot com at gmail dot com
so that we can set up a time

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to exchange that one letter have that
prize. This is a beautiful handmade flute,

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It sounds great and the one and
only Tommy Wildcat creation. That's exactly

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right. Tommy is. He's an
amazing artist. I love listening to his

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music. He's put out several He's
well known around the country. Like I've

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said before, he's been featured on
Discovery Channel, National Geographic. They were

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doing a Beatles anthology and he was
in an American Express commercial actually playing his

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flute, which I thought was just
really incredible. It kind of blows your

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mind to see that sort of notoriety
for him. But anyway, this month

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our prize giveaway is a children's book
about the First Fire, which is the

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story about how we first obtained fire
and it's actually signed by Deputy Chief Brian

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Warner. Coincidentally, Brad Wagman our
speaker at WCCA Thursday evening. He is

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the author of that book and he
adopted this story as a children's book because

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we're very interested in always passing along
stories from the tribe. He's a very

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interesting person. I always look forward
to speaking with him. We share a

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couple of things in common. We
both enjoy tending to our Bonzi trees and

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throwing tomahawks. And he's really a
pretty decent tomahawk tomahawk thrower. It's better

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than being a tomahawk catcher. That's
exactly right. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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that's rough. And we have another
community meeting for the Norweida folks.

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They're located at ten twenty six Lenape
Drive. They check out their Facebook page.

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They usually have their meeting announcements there. Something they we recently. We

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went over a couple of weeks ago. They had a reauthorization of the I

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think it's a oh for the head
Start program. They had them there and

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the chiefs has gone around throughout the
reservation and committed forty five million dollars to

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support our head Start programs. So
it was really a great event. They're

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going to be extended. They have
a nutrition center over there, are going

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to be expanding that to feed more
people. So always as always, Yeah,

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great things happening in cherokeynation. My
gosh, yes, that is absolutely

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astounding. Tell folks they can get
a hold of you here. They have

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questions on Cherokee Chat. You've got
your own Facebook page. I do have

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my own Facebook page exactly. Say
go ahead and follow this on Cherokee Chat.

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You can message me on there,
or like I said, you can

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actually send an email to me at
cherokeechat radio at gmail dot com. Very

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good, John Weston, thank you
for being with us here today. It's

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always Tom and for all the listeners
out there at do to de goha e.

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So until we meet again,