WEBVTT 1 00:00:04.360 --> 00:00:06.440 Good money, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome 2 00:00:06.480 --> 00:00:09.039 in. It's time now for our community connection right here on gay one, 3 00:00:09.119 --> 00:00:12.720 the one you trust to and do. We have members of Cherokee Nation and 4 00:00:12.759 --> 00:00:16.199 friends of mine in here today. We have Misty and we have mister Weston 5 00:00:16.280 --> 00:00:18.800 in here. How are we doing, guys, gal doing great time. 6 00:00:19.039 --> 00:00:23.879 We've got a kind of a big deal coming up tomorrow, don't we? 7 00:00:23.879 --> 00:00:28.600 We do? We do Wednesday at noon at the Tri County Technology Events Center 8 00:00:28.640 --> 00:00:31.879 where Kawanas Club of Barsville, which I happen to be president elect of, 9 00:00:32.679 --> 00:00:39.079 is going to be hosting an event about maintaining the challenges of tribal sovereignty and 10 00:00:39.159 --> 00:00:42.880 attendance. Actually as their keynote speaker, we're going to have Chief Chuck Costkin 11 00:00:42.920 --> 00:00:46.079 a Cherokee Nation, and we're going to have a guest speaker, Lieutenant Governor 12 00:00:46.079 --> 00:00:50.359 Matt Panel And also in attendance, we're going to have Chief Standing Bear of 13 00:00:50.399 --> 00:00:54.560 the os Age Nation. We're going to have a Chief Brad Kills Crow of 14 00:00:54.640 --> 00:00:58.799 the Delaware Tribe of Indians, and we're going to have Cherokee Nation Counselors dwar 15 00:00:58.920 --> 00:01:03.039 p Atskowski and Cherokee Nation Counselor Joe Deer with us, Well, it sounds 16 00:01:03.079 --> 00:01:06.239 like we're going to have a packed house. We are, and the public's 17 00:01:06.280 --> 00:01:10.000 welcome. Absolutely, it's a free event. We encourage everyone to come out 18 00:01:10.480 --> 00:01:14.280 and and just listen to what the speakers have to say. And and you 19 00:01:14.280 --> 00:01:17.760 know, really, tribal sovereignty is one of those things that's near and dear 20 00:01:17.840 --> 00:01:19.719 to a lot of us here. I know about the third people of Barsow 21 00:01:19.879 --> 00:01:25.680 live here are Cherokee Nation citizens, and it's just it's one of those things 22 00:01:25.680 --> 00:01:30.120 that since the advent of McGirt, there's been a lot of passionate debate about. 23 00:01:30.719 --> 00:01:34.680 And I think the whole purpose of this event, it really isn't to 24 00:01:34.879 --> 00:01:38.359 talk at each other, is to talk with one another. And I think 25 00:01:38.400 --> 00:01:42.480 we just really need to get past some of the animosity that we've seen in 26 00:01:42.519 --> 00:01:46.680 the past few years and realize that, you know, the tribal nations and 27 00:01:46.719 --> 00:01:49.040 our state government could be great partners and do a lot of great things for 28 00:01:49.519 --> 00:01:53.599 the people who live here. So well, once again, Misty, this 29 00:01:53.640 --> 00:01:59.000 is one of these things where we're not here to have a debate, We're 30 00:01:59.040 --> 00:02:01.760 here to have a discussion exactly right. Yeah, I think John said it 31 00:02:01.799 --> 00:02:05.959 well to talk with each other. Yeah, And this is going to be 32 00:02:05.959 --> 00:02:08.719 good because I think a lot of people are going to understand a few things 33 00:02:08.719 --> 00:02:14.840 and probably get through some misunderstandings. If this goes is I think it probably 34 00:02:14.879 --> 00:02:19.599 will exactly right. This is really going to be outstanding once again. This 35 00:02:19.680 --> 00:02:23.479 takes place at noon to try Dune, Yeah Dune tomorrow the try Khigh Technology 36 00:02:23.479 --> 00:02:29.039 Events Center, free and open to the public. And we're really looking forward 37 00:02:29.039 --> 00:02:31.719 to it, you know, because, like I said, we've had a 38 00:02:31.719 --> 00:02:38.000 lot of issues with I would say, playing politics with tribal sovereignty, you 39 00:02:38.039 --> 00:02:43.479 know, And I think if we can just get past that and embrace the 40 00:02:43.520 --> 00:02:47.879 spirit of reconciliation and friendliness and understand that where you know, Like I told 41 00:02:47.879 --> 00:02:51.639 my wife one night, I said, you know, I said, some 42 00:02:51.680 --> 00:02:55.039 people even try to claim that the tribal citizens are more loyal to their tribe 43 00:02:55.080 --> 00:02:58.240 than they are to the state. And it's like, I don't really see 44 00:02:58.240 --> 00:03:00.560 it that way. What I see is it's like having children. I said, 45 00:03:00.560 --> 00:03:04.199 if you have more than one child, do you love one any less 46 00:03:04.240 --> 00:03:06.960 than the other? No, you don't. You know, we both we 47 00:03:07.039 --> 00:03:09.240 all root for the Sooners, or we all root for those dreaded O Su 48 00:03:09.360 --> 00:03:14.879 cowboys, you know. And it's like, we live here, we pay 49 00:03:14.919 --> 00:03:17.000 taxes here, we send our kids to school here, you know, and 50 00:03:17.039 --> 00:03:22.039 we run businesses here, we serve in the state legislature. Our governor himself 51 00:03:22.080 --> 00:03:24.560 claims to be a Cherokee citizen, you know. So it's yeah, it's 52 00:03:24.599 --> 00:03:30.000 just one of those things that if we can just speak with one another and 53 00:03:30.719 --> 00:03:34.719 really just take on the issue and understand that we are partners in the state 54 00:03:34.759 --> 00:03:38.439 that we live in, but we also have to respect the fact that we're 55 00:03:38.520 --> 00:03:42.840 tribal We are a sovereign tribal nations. Okay, I've been living here for 56 00:03:42.879 --> 00:03:46.879 about five years, and I have family members in Indiana and you know, 57 00:03:47.199 --> 00:03:51.400 in that area. And they said, well, you know, Oklahoma's got 58 00:03:51.400 --> 00:03:53.120 all these tribal lands. Every time we were down there, it says you're 59 00:03:53.520 --> 00:03:58.080 now in Cherokee Nation, you're now in O Sage Nation, You're now in 60 00:03:59.439 --> 00:04:03.560 a different names. Yeah, there's a lot there's a lot of nation going 61 00:04:03.599 --> 00:04:08.919 on here. And they said, well, how does that affect this that 62 00:04:09.080 --> 00:04:11.759 or the other. I said, the thing is, you have to remember 63 00:04:11.800 --> 00:04:15.360 it's a universal set. Yeah, you live in Indiana, but you also 64 00:04:15.439 --> 00:04:19.120 live in the United States. That's correct. So I said, Okay, 65 00:04:19.439 --> 00:04:24.879 you have Oklahoma, Okay, you have uh, the United States, you 66 00:04:24.959 --> 00:04:28.759 have Washington County, Okay, you have you have Cherokee Nation, you have 67 00:04:29.279 --> 00:04:31.399 Nation, have all these other different nations. The thing is, well, 68 00:04:31.439 --> 00:04:36.199 you all just we all just got to get along to it. I said 69 00:04:36.199 --> 00:04:41.240 that, you know, the thing is that that we tried to have everybody 70 00:04:41.279 --> 00:04:46.600 on the same page, follow the same laws as we can and do the 71 00:04:46.639 --> 00:04:50.519 best we can with the hand that's ben deltas by the courts and by the 72 00:04:50.639 --> 00:04:54.800 art history exactly. And you brought up history, you know, and you 73 00:04:54.839 --> 00:04:58.439 really can't dismiss the context of history. I mean, when the McGirt decision 74 00:04:58.480 --> 00:05:01.959 came down, Neil, We're said, who is a Trump appointee? He 75 00:05:02.000 --> 00:05:06.120 wrote the majority opinion for that decision, and he pointed out that there's been 76 00:05:06.160 --> 00:05:10.680 a long history of the federal government not living up to its promises to tribal 77 00:05:10.759 --> 00:05:15.279 nations, you know, And so you really can't without an understanding of that, 78 00:05:15.639 --> 00:05:19.399 you really can't move forward on this issue. You have to understand that 79 00:05:19.439 --> 00:05:24.600 we have an obligations as citizens of both the United States and Oklahoma to our 80 00:05:24.639 --> 00:05:29.399 tribal nations, and that is to observe our tribal sovereignty and to respect the 81 00:05:29.839 --> 00:05:33.399 agreements that we've made with our tribal nations. Now I understand we have some 82 00:05:33.439 --> 00:05:39.040 cultural things that are coming up here in the next few days or weeks. 83 00:05:39.079 --> 00:05:42.519 Am I correct? I do so. Within the last couple of years there 84 00:05:42.560 --> 00:05:48.079 was a new Cherokee Cultural Committee developed in dewey On. I was there for 85 00:05:48.120 --> 00:05:50.959 the you were well, that's right, I think I saw you there. 86 00:05:53.279 --> 00:05:58.759 So it's just a great community and a way to get all of the citizens 87 00:05:58.759 --> 00:06:03.600 together and to preserve our tribe and all the education that there is behind us. 88 00:06:04.040 --> 00:06:09.279 And so it's open to the public. We have meetings the third Thursday 89 00:06:09.279 --> 00:06:12.959 of every month. We're starting those this spring at six o'clock and then coming 90 00:06:13.040 --> 00:06:18.519 up on March first, Operation Eagle is doing a Fried Indian Taco fundraiser. 91 00:06:18.720 --> 00:06:25.600 So I think that person a lot of years up right, everybody exactly a 92 00:06:25.600 --> 00:06:30.199 long line for Ada there will be so the details on that. It's March 93 00:06:30.279 --> 00:06:32.600 first, from ten thirty to two, and then March second, from eleven 94 00:06:32.600 --> 00:06:35.839 to six. The proceeds are going to go to their spring pow wow, 95 00:06:36.199 --> 00:06:40.759 and it's ten dollars and it includes a drink and dessert and they'll do delivery, 96 00:06:40.800 --> 00:06:43.560 pickup or dine in. So I think everyone needs to mark their calendars 97 00:06:43.560 --> 00:06:46.680 for that. Yeah, Yeah, and we welcome you know, we're really 98 00:06:46.680 --> 00:06:50.399 trying to grow that committee and it's open to the general public. You can 99 00:06:50.399 --> 00:06:55.639 be a member for for there's no membership fee. So but we would definitely 100 00:06:55.639 --> 00:07:01.120 want to grow that. Just go to a Cherokee Cultural Committee on community sorry 101 00:07:01.759 --> 00:07:06.560 on Facebook and I like that page and followed on there yet Misty and I 102 00:07:06.600 --> 00:07:12.519 were there last Saturday. We welcome Sean Crittendon. The Chief is tasked Sean 103 00:07:12.680 --> 00:07:15.839 with heading up a task force, uh for for a new program the Cherokee 104 00:07:15.959 --> 00:07:23.759 Nation is unrolling called the Good Dougie, the Good Corps and Gogie and Cherokee 105 00:07:23.800 --> 00:07:28.759 just means working together and basically it's, uh, it's going to be a 106 00:07:28.839 --> 00:07:32.560 volunteer organization. We're going to really get our youth involved and kind of and 107 00:07:32.639 --> 00:07:35.000 just as Sean said at the meeting, kind of help fill in some of 108 00:07:35.040 --> 00:07:40.120 the gaps that we see sometimes when the tribe is trying to offer services of 109 00:07:40.240 --> 00:07:45.120 help to our citizens. It just is gonna kind of further our ability to 110 00:07:45.160 --> 00:07:48.519 help our citizens and be a more responsive government to those those people that need 111 00:07:48.560 --> 00:07:51.839 our help. And also the volunteers that you be involved with that too, 112 00:07:51.879 --> 00:07:58.480 are going to feel search of ownership and really gonna uh get a good feel 113 00:07:58.560 --> 00:08:01.959 what it means to belong exactly. And we're looking at mentoring programs that you 114 00:08:03.000 --> 00:08:07.439 know, uh bolstering our emergency services. We have a disaster that might you 115 00:08:07.480 --> 00:08:11.839 know, occur in one of our districts that's a little farther away from Tahlequaan 116 00:08:11.839 --> 00:08:15.519 in those areas, and you know, I just I think it's it's it's 117 00:08:15.680 --> 00:08:18.519 very encouraging. I think it's going to be a wonderful program and and I 118 00:08:18.720 --> 00:08:22.279 can't wait to see get off the ground and start serving with these of our 119 00:08:22.360 --> 00:08:24.639 hurt in a moment too soon, because in Oklahoma, you're you're never a 120 00:08:24.639 --> 00:08:30.639 good day away from a tornado or a coin exactly. Exactly. Yeah, 121 00:08:30.920 --> 00:08:33.639 it's a lot of big things on the horizon, for sure. That is. 122 00:08:33.720 --> 00:08:37.759 I remember when I had a cheap Hoskin on the UH with me about 123 00:08:37.799 --> 00:08:41.600 a month and a half ago, and he was talking about that. He 124 00:08:41.639 --> 00:08:46.320 was very amp very excited about it. So obviously you should think think AmeriCorps, 125 00:08:46.320 --> 00:08:50.679 I think a few of the these other things where young people will open 126 00:08:50.759 --> 00:08:56.840 to anybody really can just volunteer and do something positive. Yeah, he said, 127 00:08:56.000 --> 00:09:00.240 that's it's just that simple. He has a vision for it, and 128 00:09:00.279 --> 00:09:01.879 I think it's really up to us to all chip in and make sure that 129 00:09:01.960 --> 00:09:05.799 vision becomes a reality. Where did you get his energy? I'd like to 130 00:09:05.840 --> 00:09:13.080 know. I'd like to tap into it. You could bottle it his. 131 00:09:15.000 --> 00:09:18.799 But the big deal tomorrow is going to be at noon, and it is 132 00:09:18.840 --> 00:09:22.960 open to the public, and it will be with Chief Chuck Hoskin Junior, 133 00:09:24.519 --> 00:09:28.759 the Principal Chief Cherokee Nation, and Lieutenant Governor Matt Pannell. Be kind of 134 00:09:28.759 --> 00:09:35.639 difficult to tell them apart because they love wearing the same blue blade. Never 135 00:09:35.759 --> 00:09:39.480 mind me, we were a little inside joke. But anyway, it's going 136 00:09:39.559 --> 00:09:46.360 to be a good time and a very very uh you're gonna you're gonna get 137 00:09:46.360 --> 00:09:50.720 your eyes open to a few things, and you might be challenging yourself on 138 00:09:50.759 --> 00:09:56.600 a few things as well, So be prepared to listen with both ears, 139 00:09:56.759 --> 00:09:58.360 speak with one and if we if we have time time, I've got a 140 00:09:58.399 --> 00:10:01.879 couple of other things I like to mess and go about our Cherokee communities, 141 00:10:03.840 --> 00:10:07.200 our Noida Cherokee Community Foundation, and we have three communities here in District twelve, 142 00:10:07.200 --> 00:10:11.879 which is store of Patskowski's district. Uh. And in these communities, 143 00:10:11.879 --> 00:10:13.919 of course, are the Cherokee Cultural Community in Dewey, which is a seven 144 00:10:13.960 --> 00:10:24.840 hundred east term very nice building. It really is very very available wedding anniversar 145 00:10:24.840 --> 00:10:28.519 and full full kitchen service. Yeah, it's a huge kitchen. Yeah, 146 00:10:28.559 --> 00:10:35.360 absolutely, Well, the NODA Cherokee Community Foundation, they have their meetings typically 147 00:10:35.399 --> 00:10:39.399 the second Tuesday of each month. Now sometimes that's that's is subject to change. 148 00:10:39.480 --> 00:10:43.120 They really should follow them on their Facebook page just to know exactly what 149 00:10:43.279 --> 00:10:48.080 they will be meeting exactly a lot of exciting things happening over there. We're 150 00:10:48.279 --> 00:10:52.600 building a Cherokee Nation is building a huge head start center just to the north 151 00:10:52.639 --> 00:10:58.000 of that building. We've got a food distribution center over there for for to 152 00:10:58.080 --> 00:11:01.240 make sure a lot of our tribal citizens aren't food insecure. We're actually feeding 153 00:11:01.279 --> 00:11:05.039 elders over there now. And you know, you can follow those those programs 154 00:11:05.039 --> 00:11:09.159 on our Cherokee Nation website and also you can go to the the WA to 155 00:11:09.240 --> 00:11:15.120 Cherokee Community Foundation Facebook page and follow those folks. And we have another Cherokee 156 00:11:15.120 --> 00:11:18.399 community down in the southern part of the county near Ocean Leda. I'm the 157 00:11:18.399 --> 00:11:22.720 secretary there at the Washington County Cherokee Association. We typically have our meetings the 158 00:11:24.039 --> 00:11:28.720 first Thursday of each month, and on April twenty seventh, we're going to 159 00:11:28.759 --> 00:11:31.159 have a cultural Day. We didn't really have two cultural days a year, 160 00:11:31.240 --> 00:11:33.639 and this cultural Day is going to be a little different from the one that 161 00:11:33.679 --> 00:11:37.000 we had in the fall because it's going to be more hands on cultural day. 162 00:11:37.039 --> 00:11:41.720 Oh cool. So we're going to do things like feather painting and copper 163 00:11:41.799 --> 00:11:45.720 impressions and different things that are just really going to be a fun, hands 164 00:11:45.720 --> 00:11:48.559 on activity and just fun for the whole family. That's good. Remember last 165 00:11:48.559 --> 00:11:52.360 followed there was a lot of a performance art that would be exactly exactly and 166 00:11:52.440 --> 00:11:56.120 April twenty seventh, that event will run from eleven to three pm and we 167 00:11:56.159 --> 00:12:00.399 hope to see you know, a lot of people there. It's always it's 168 00:12:00.440 --> 00:12:03.320 always great we can get together and not only with other Cherokees, but with 169 00:12:03.360 --> 00:12:07.720 the community as a whole and just share our culture. That is wonderful. 170 00:12:07.120 --> 00:12:09.840 You know, the little ones get such a big kick out of it. 171 00:12:11.039 --> 00:12:13.279 And once we start doing things with their hands, they start doing That's exactly 172 00:12:13.360 --> 00:12:16.840 right. That's right. Where the hands go, the mind will follow. 173 00:12:18.440 --> 00:12:22.960 And it's really a nice situation that you have out there in Oceania too. 174 00:12:24.279 --> 00:12:26.799 You know that community area, and of course the medical facility out there, 175 00:12:26.840 --> 00:12:31.960 the Ko Health Center, is located right directly. You said that because I 176 00:12:33.039 --> 00:12:35.639 knew I was going to mispronounce it. Yeah. I recently made a sign 177 00:12:35.720 --> 00:12:39.399 for our friends up to the Dative American Fellowship in South Cokerville. We have 178 00:12:39.480 --> 00:12:45.320 this kind of running joke where we're into tomahawk throwing and they've established the Kui 179 00:12:45.360 --> 00:12:50.360 Scuy Tomahawk Commission, which is not officially sanctioned by Cherokee Nation, but it's 180 00:12:50.399 --> 00:12:54.519 something we just kind of joke around about. And uh, so I made 181 00:12:54.559 --> 00:12:56.879 him a sign. I three D printed elements of this sign, and one 182 00:12:56.919 --> 00:13:01.080 of the things I had to do is three D print the word kooey scooey, 183 00:13:01.600 --> 00:13:03.679 And let me tell you, that is not an easy word to get 184 00:13:05.440 --> 00:13:11.320 on. Yeah, and uh and so it took me a little time just 185 00:13:11.360 --> 00:13:13.399 on that word alone to put the sign together. But but it was a 186 00:13:13.399 --> 00:13:16.799 lot of fun. And I we really do all these communities. We love 187 00:13:16.879 --> 00:13:20.720 working with each other. We just were friends and you know, it's you 188 00:13:20.840 --> 00:13:24.919 really and I'm glad that we we talk about go doogie quite a bit because 189 00:13:26.039 --> 00:13:28.080 they're working together. We don't even have a word in Cherokee for community. 190 00:13:28.279 --> 00:13:33.320 It is googie, you know, and we live and breathe that in these 191 00:13:33.360 --> 00:13:35.440 communities all year long, and I think it's just a wonderful thing that we 192 00:13:35.480 --> 00:13:39.679 all share. Well, this is great. Once Cain wins the Indian Taco 193 00:13:39.879 --> 00:13:43.799 March first in March, second March first two big days, because you know 194 00:13:43.840 --> 00:13:48.799 you want to come back for second Star, that's right, Yeah, yeah, 195 00:13:50.039 --> 00:13:54.000 Friday night if if you're interested. The Key Club and Dewey, which 196 00:13:54.039 --> 00:13:58.720 is affiliated with our Kuanas Club here in Bardosville, they're going to be having 197 00:13:58.759 --> 00:14:01.799 a bingo fundraiser and it's going to be at the Dewey High School Student Union. 198 00:14:03.159 --> 00:14:05.120 Starts at five point thirty. If you want to pre order tickets, 199 00:14:05.159 --> 00:14:09.039 you can do that online. They're ten dollars online, but if you want 200 00:14:09.080 --> 00:14:11.000 to pay at the door, it's fifteen all right, Very good, very 201 00:14:11.000 --> 00:14:15.480 good. I want to thank you for both coming in here today, Missy 202 00:14:16.240 --> 00:14:20.360 and missed. We very nice to have you both in here, and tomorrow 203 00:14:20.440 --> 00:14:22.960 is going to be a big day. And make sure you say how do 204 00:14:22.960 --> 00:14:26.440 eat everybody, because everybody's going to say how do do you. We're looking 205 00:14:26.440 --> 00:14:26.080 forward to it.