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And good morning, good morning,
good morning, and welcome, welcome,

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welcome. It is time now for
our community connection right here on K one,

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the one you trust, and we
are live in the studio here with

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the Delaware Tribe of Indians. You
have Assistant Chief Tanya Anna here, also

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Shannon Robidou and Dna Morrel. So, ladies, why goodness six we have

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a full house. Yes we do. Thank you for having us, and

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we got a lot going on.
First of all, because it's it's hot

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outside. Everybody knows that. I
want to kind of point out the obvious

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here first, thank you for providing
a cooling center for people who just cannot

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find any other way to beat the
heat. Absolutely, we have a lot

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of members in the community as well
as our own membership. And it's open

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from one to five. That's Monday
through Friday, and that's after our elders

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lunch, So you feel free to
come from one to five. And it's

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right there on Tuxedo at the mean, it's right on Tuxedo. We're located

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at the corner of Tuxedo and Madison
and it's forsythe halls dining hall. All

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right, great, well, there's
a lot of growth going on. I

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can tell because we used to just
have one person coming here from the Delaware

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Tribe. Now we got three.
We got a lot going on here.

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Ladies sent us straight here. What's
happening? Yeah, so i'd like to

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reduce. This is Shannarouba Doo.
She is our new executive director of Tribal

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Operations. Hi. Welcome, by
the way, Thank you, thank you.

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It's great to be here. And
we have Dana Merle. She is

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our executive Assistant to the Chief and
Tribal Council. Sweet nice, good morning,

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Happy to be here. We've got
three probably of the four busiest people

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in the hole. There's some others
that are busy as well. Yeah,

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but I understand. We have a
new veterans memorial, Yes we do.

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It's located as soon as you pull
into the campus off a tuxedo. You're

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on Barber Street and the memorial is
located to the left and you can see

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it's right behind the pond. The
dedication was back in May, right before

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the Powell May twenty fifth. It
was the Delaware War Mothers and the Veterans

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Committee did the dedication, and so
that's new to our campus. You know,

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uh, we we did some stories
about the pow wow, and word

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was everybody had just a lot of
fun. It was. It was really

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a good time for everybody. A
lot of families. Oh yeah, that's

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a big family reunion for a lot
of the locals. Now, tell us

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about this football game. It's not
like any other football game. It's brutal

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rights. It's a man against the
women. Ohky, so it's it's not

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your typical football. Oh. They
use a ball that's made out of deer

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hide that's filled with hair and so
it's real soft. It's not like a

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football that people think. And there's
really no rules to it. You have

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you have, Um, the goals
are at each end like a football field,

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but the polls are three to part
and so you have to get the

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ball in between those poles. But
really the only rules to the game is

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really there's no rules for the women. The men they do have to kick

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it from wherever they are, so
if they catch it, they have to

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drop it to the ground, pick
it up, kick it, or they

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can kick it from the ground.
Um, they're not allowed to run with

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it. But like I said,
the women can do whatever they and it's

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right. It's brutal. My It
just sounds like it's kind of fun to

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watch, but as absolutely nothing exactly
how it is. Oh my god,

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I understand we have plans for a
new gym coming up. Go ahead and

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elaborate. Oh great, Yes,
we do have plans for a new gym,

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and we are currently waiting on some
approvals through the city because we have

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to do some work to Madison and
Ohio Street. And once we get that

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approval and a couple of other approvals
with our funding agency, then we will

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be able to start start the building
process of the roads and then the building

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of the gym. But the gym
is a huge endeavor that we are excited

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about because it's going to enable us
to expand our services for our wellness center.

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It's going to provide an indoor walking
trail around the top of the gym.

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It'll enable us to have some indoor
activities when such as how we'll get

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togethers inside and things like that,
as well as play basketball tournaments and other

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events. So we're really excited about
this. Just can get a lot of

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use ya. Wow, you know, if you're going to do it and

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do it right and make sure it
gets you used. Oh goodness sakes,

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now, I'm not good with this. One word here is it Lenapi yep,

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one in a row. I got
it right. I understand we're expanding

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the Lenape Early Learning Center with this
gym. Two. Yes, we um

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the gym and the early Learning Learning
Center expansion are going to take place at

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the same time. Okay. So
we're going to add some additional rooms classrooms

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to our early Learning Center and be
able to increase the number of children that

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we can take into our l ELC. And we're also going to have a

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half gym that is contained within the
early Learning Center so that our little guys

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are able to participate in those same
type of activities that the older children will

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participate in the full gym. Well, that's a good idea. Run off

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some energy. Oh boy, that's
a real good idea. Now I understand.

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You have the new food pantry up
and going. How's that we're gonna

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Yes, we have the new food
pantry, and we have Councilman Rusty Brown.

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It was his idea. He was
looking for a food closet. Um

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he was just one in a small
space, but he got whole pantry and

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now he's looking at bringing to us
an orchard gardens. Possible greenhouse. So

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we have a food sovereignty program for
our own people. You know what this

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tells me next time Rusty has an
idea, let him go for it.

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There you go, Yes, man, that clot fire didn't. Yes,

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he's been a big asset to the
council. It goes a little bit about

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the wellness center. That's that's going
on. Anna, Do you want to

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talk about the wellness center? Sure? Yeah. Our wellness center is located

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on Barbara Street. When you pull
in, UM, it's just kind of

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down down the hill from the main
campus. M The hours are eight to

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five and Cody Bichman as the director
and she's got a wealth of knowledge on

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exercising for what age group that you
are. There's there's UM your regulars that

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come in you know in the mornings, and there are people that you know

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come in and it's a really sweet
little wellness center. UM. If you

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go in there and exercise, and
if you're in there at the right time,

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you've got the place to yourself and
that's really cozy and it's nice because

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some of the some of the some
of the equipment that we have, UM,

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the treadmills are really keen. UM
I really like the stairstepping. We've

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got a stairstepping machine there and the
quality of them are nice. And there's

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also a place for showers and you
can wash up before you leave and stuff

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like that. So it's really keen. It's well, you describe that,

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I just lost five pounds thinking no
small feet for me. Wade Cody is

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a prime example. She's lost a
significant amount. I can't think of how

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many pounds she lost, but she
just wow, that's great. She's created

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some really neat wellness activities for the
employees to some challenges and some prizes and

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stuff for us. All so well, she's keeping the whole campus in shape

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well good. In fact, she's
in the process of um putting together a

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med run, and that advertised before
too long, but she's wanting to put

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together a med run for this fall. So you know, it's fun to

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watch, but if you're participating in
it, you might as well just run

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a marathon and just save yourself.
But you do have the coolness of the

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mud. In case you know you're
starting to feel it, you can just

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go down to see I'm good.
Oh you guys, think of everything we

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try. Now I want to talk
to you a little bit about the tribal

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archives. This had to be kind
of interesting because you know, the Delaware

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tribe, I understand, came from
all the way from New York. Yes

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here and during Yes, our archive
is Anita Mathis. She's there Monday through

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Friday. I believe her hours are
nine to five. Um. Delaware members

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have taken old pictures artifacts down to
her to be archive great. So we

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do have a research center that's located
in her area, which is in the

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Cultural Center, and you can go
in, you can research family, look

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up history on the Delaware. So
she's full of information. She has a

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small library that's located in her facility
as well. Wow, this is neat.

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You know, you can learn the
history if you're not familiar with it.

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I know, you know, because
my family, we have a lot

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of crible membrans have married in and
what have you. And going back and

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doing the research was never an easy
thing back in the sixties, in the

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seventies, got a little easier in
the eighties and nineties. But now,

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wow, yes, yeah, it's
full of information. And we've had several

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members take old pictures down of their
own family. Oh wow, that's neat.

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Now I understand if you're a senior, you might get a little bit

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of help with the nutrition program Title
six. That's our elder nutrition program.

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They meet as long as the center's
open Monday through Friday. They start serving

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at noon. I believe. The
cost for meals for anyone under fifty five

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is six dollars. They request a
donation of two dollars, I believe,

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and they do serve from noon to
one. They have a daily menu.

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It's on our website at Delaware Tribe
dot org, so they can locate the

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menu under the Elder Services. They
also have bingo on Thursdays. Yeah,

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and then they have chair exercises on
Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Go work

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off that stuff. Oh yes,
and they're right yeah, right now they're

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doing basket weaving, so they had
a lady come in to teach some of

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our elders how to do that.
You know, for the cost you just

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gave out there, you can't go
to a fast food restaurant and get even

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a cheat meal for that. And
with this, you're getting something that's nutritionally

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laid out for you. It's going
to do you a benefit. Beside,

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it's just going down the ill gullet
as they say, they do have a

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good menu. Tree Kirby is the
director of that program and she has she

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has done so much fundraising. Is
brought in an ice cream machine, a

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slushy machine, and I can't even
think of what a popcorn machine. So

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she's she's really vamping that program.
So them elders really like it. And

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they've got a really great salad bar. Yeah, I've been told is the

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best one in town. There.
You get go green Man, you gotta

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go green to the Veggie's there.
What is lenape Connect, well, Nay

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Connect. That's the tribal app that
they have that the council approved and it's

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a way that people can put um
it's like a just an app like Facebook

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without the public hi looking in.
It's specific to the tribal members and so

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they can put it on their device
and just at the touch of a button,

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scroll just like you can and see
what other people have posted about,

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what other topics that they choose to
add to their categories. So whether it's

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cultural events, um, something specific
to the pow wow, maybe some pow

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wow pictures, maybe reunion pictures.
Something just to connect other Delaware with other

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Delaware that may not have known that
they were on there without the out So

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it's just a connection, very convenient
connection to connection to all. You can

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keep the circle circle exactly exactly.
I don't know if that made a sense

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to anybody else, but it made
sense to me. Now we have the

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Delaware Indian News. It's published Airvoy
Quarter, and I understand that is that

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is that online or is that a
paperwork? It is it is housed online

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on our website. You can see
an online version that's up there um all

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the time. It's um in the
all the campus locations. You can pick

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up a coffee. There's a house
coffee. You can subscribe if you're non

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Delaware. You can subscribe for twenty
dollars a year. And it's just chalk

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full of all the activities that are
happening on campus off campus. They try

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to interview a youth or an elder, and we're reaching out across the nation

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and trying to get an insight of
others and trying to tie everybody together and

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that have that connectivity in that paper. So it's really fun. And this

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month we had a twenty four page
paper. We're working on trying to get

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lots of new pictures and lots of
new activity and if anybody is interested,

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then we're happy to even provide ads. So definitely reach out. You can

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reach out at den at Delaware Tribe
dot org and we can ask any questions.

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This is really cool. Now.
One thing that stood out when I

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first moved to town, this is
the first thing I heard about the Delaware

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Tribe is you have this service.
It's vital and it is for families and

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Children's services. And I came to
town four years ago. This is one

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of the first five or six things
I heard about, and it was it

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was the tribe doing this. Tell
us about it. Yes, the must

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Violence program is with our Family and
Children's Services and it's not just only for

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our members, but it is for
the community, for anyone in Bartlesville.

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Shanna, do you want to give
an update on our FCS. We currently

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have a new director in FCS and
her name is Pamela Wiggins and she is

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in the process of gaining her footing, but she has an amazing staff that

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is absolutely helping her with that.
We have a domestic violence program that assists

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individuals. I'm not going to say
women, because it could be men,

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it could be anybody. But they
assist individuals who are in a potentially dangerous

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situation. They assist them with the
ability to file a po they assist them

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with the ability to obtain housing.
They assystem with building resumes, doing what

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they need to do to get established
and get on their feet. And there

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are they have many different resources at
their fingertips and in order to do that,

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and if anyone is in need of
that service, I would absolutely encourage

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them to call the twenty four hour
hotline at nine one eight three three one

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seven three four nine and they will
absolutely get on board and take care of

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you. We have someone covering that
hotline twenty four hours a day every day,

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so in that hotlines more like a
lifeline. Do absolutely it can and

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will in many occasions it has,
yes, got people out of situations they

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didn't ask to be in correct.
Oh man, this is great. Folks

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want to learn more about the Udelaware
Tribe of Indians. How do we find

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out? You can go to Delaware
Tribe dot org, which is our website.

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We have a Facebook page. You
can stop by our center at fifty

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one hundred Tuxedo Boulevard. Again that's
at the corner of Tuxedo and Madison.

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Ladies, I want to thank you
for just a point. That's a lot

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of information in fifteen minutes, but
thanks for giving us the update. Well,

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thank you for the opportunity and we
are happy to be here all right,

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anytime you want doors open, Ladies, thank you very much, thank

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you very much, and you