And good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome,
welcome. It is time now for our community connection right here on K one,
the one you trust, and we are live in the studio here with
the Delaware Tribe of Indians. You have Assistant Chief Tanya Anna here, also
Shannon Robidou and Dna Morrel. So, ladies, why goodness six we have
a full house. Yes we do. Thank you for having us, and
we got a lot going on. First of all, because it's it's hot
outside. Everybody knows that. I want to kind of point out the obvious
here first, thank you for providing a cooling center for people who just cannot
find any other way to beat the heat. Absolutely, we have a lot
of members in the community as well as our own membership. And it's open
from one to five. That's Monday through Friday, and that's after our elders
lunch, So you feel free to come from one to five. And it's
right there on Tuxedo at the mean, it's right on Tuxedo. We're located
at the corner of Tuxedo and Madison and it's forsythe halls dining hall. All
right, great, well, there's a lot of growth going on. I
can tell because we used to just have one person coming here from the Delaware
Tribe. Now we got three. We got a lot going on here.
Ladies sent us straight here. What's happening? Yeah, so i'd like to
reduce. This is Shannarouba Doo. She is our new executive director of Tribal
Operations. Hi. Welcome, by the way, Thank you, thank you.
It's great to be here. And we have Dana Merle. She is
our executive Assistant to the Chief and Tribal Council. Sweet nice, good morning,
Happy to be here. We've got three probably of the four busiest people
in the hole. There's some others that are busy as well. Yeah,
but I understand. We have a new veterans memorial, Yes we do.
It's located as soon as you pull into the campus off a tuxedo. You're
on Barber Street and the memorial is located to the left and you can see
it's right behind the pond. The dedication was back in May, right before
the Powell May twenty fifth. It was the Delaware War Mothers and the Veterans
Committee did the dedication, and so that's new to our campus. You know,
uh, we we did some stories about the pow wow, and word
was everybody had just a lot of fun. It was. It was really
a good time for everybody. A lot of families. Oh yeah, that's
a big family reunion for a lot of the locals. Now, tell us
about this football game. It's not like any other football game. It's brutal
rights. It's a man against the women. Ohky, so it's it's not
your typical football. Oh. They use a ball that's made out of deer
hide that's filled with hair and so it's real soft. It's not like a
football that people think. And there's really no rules to it. You have
you have, Um, the goals are at each end like a football field,
but the polls are three to part and so you have to get the
ball in between those poles. But really the only rules to the game is
really there's no rules for the women. The men they do have to kick
it from wherever they are, so if they catch it, they have to
drop it to the ground, pick it up, kick it, or they
can kick it from the ground. Um, they're not allowed to run with
it. But like I said, the women can do whatever they and it's
right. It's brutal. My It just sounds like it's kind of fun to
watch, but as absolutely nothing exactly how it is. Oh my god,
I understand we have plans for a new gym coming up. Go ahead and
elaborate. Oh great, Yes, we do have plans for a new gym,
and we are currently waiting on some approvals through the city because we have
to do some work to Madison and Ohio Street. And once we get that
approval and a couple of other approvals with our funding agency, then we will
be able to start start the building process of the roads and then the building
of the gym. But the gym is a huge endeavor that we are excited
about because it's going to enable us to expand our services for our wellness center.
It's going to provide an indoor walking trail around the top of the gym.
It'll enable us to have some indoor activities when such as how we'll get
togethers inside and things like that, as well as play basketball tournaments and other
events. So we're really excited about this. Just can get a lot of
use ya. Wow, you know, if you're going to do it and
do it right and make sure it gets you used. Oh goodness sakes,
now, I'm not good with this. One word here is it Lenapi yep,
one in a row. I got it right. I understand we're expanding
the Lenape Early Learning Center with this gym. Two. Yes, we um
the gym and the early Learning Learning Center expansion are going to take place at
the same time. Okay. So we're going to add some additional rooms classrooms
to our early Learning Center and be able to increase the number of children that
we can take into our l ELC. And we're also going to have a
half gym that is contained within the early Learning Center so that our little guys
are able to participate in those same type of activities that the older children will
participate in the full gym. Well, that's a good idea. Run off
some energy. Oh boy, that's a real good idea. Now I understand.
You have the new food pantry up and going. How's that we're gonna
Yes, we have the new food pantry, and we have Councilman Rusty Brown.
It was his idea. He was looking for a food closet. Um
he was just one in a small space, but he got whole pantry and
now he's looking at bringing to us an orchard gardens. Possible greenhouse. So
we have a food sovereignty program for our own people. You know what this
tells me next time Rusty has an idea, let him go for it.
There you go, Yes, man, that clot fire didn't. Yes,
he's been a big asset to the council. It goes a little bit about
the wellness center. That's that's going on. Anna, Do you want to
talk about the wellness center? Sure? Yeah. Our wellness center is located
on Barbara Street. When you pull in, UM, it's just kind of
down down the hill from the main campus. M The hours are eight to
five and Cody Bichman as the director and she's got a wealth of knowledge on
exercising for what age group that you are. There's there's UM your regulars that
come in you know in the mornings, and there are people that you know
come in and it's a really sweet little wellness center. UM. If you
go in there and exercise, and if you're in there at the right time,
you've got the place to yourself and that's really cozy and it's nice because
some of the some of the some of the equipment that we have, UM,
the treadmills are really keen. UM I really like the stairstepping. We've
got a stairstepping machine there and the quality of them are nice. And there's
also a place for showers and you can wash up before you leave and stuff
like that. So it's really keen. It's well, you describe that,
I just lost five pounds thinking no small feet for me. Wade Cody is
a prime example. She's lost a significant amount. I can't think of how
many pounds she lost, but she just wow, that's great. She's created
some really neat wellness activities for the employees to some challenges and some prizes and
stuff for us. All so well, she's keeping the whole campus in shape
well good. In fact, she's in the process of um putting together a
med run, and that advertised before too long, but she's wanting to put
together a med run for this fall. So you know, it's fun to
watch, but if you're participating in it, you might as well just run
a marathon and just save yourself. But you do have the coolness of the
mud. In case you know you're starting to feel it, you can just
go down to see I'm good. Oh you guys, think of everything we
try. Now I want to talk to you a little bit about the tribal
archives. This had to be kind of interesting because you know, the Delaware
tribe, I understand, came from all the way from New York. Yes
here and during Yes, our archive is Anita Mathis. She's there Monday through
Friday. I believe her hours are nine to five. Um. Delaware members
have taken old pictures artifacts down to her to be archive great. So we
do have a research center that's located in her area, which is in the
Cultural Center, and you can go in, you can research family, look
up history on the Delaware. So she's full of information. She has a
small library that's located in her facility as well. Wow, this is neat.
You know, you can learn the history if you're not familiar with it.
I know, you know, because my family, we have a lot
of crible membrans have married in and what have you. And going back and
doing the research was never an easy thing back in the sixties, in the
seventies, got a little easier in the eighties and nineties. But now,
wow, yes, yeah, it's full of information. And we've had several
members take old pictures down of their own family. Oh wow, that's neat.
Now I understand if you're a senior, you might get a little bit
of help with the nutrition program Title six. That's our elder nutrition program.
They meet as long as the center's open Monday through Friday. They start serving
at noon. I believe. The cost for meals for anyone under fifty five
is six dollars. They request a donation of two dollars, I believe,
and they do serve from noon to one. They have a daily menu.
It's on our website at Delaware Tribe dot org, so they can locate the
menu under the Elder Services. They also have bingo on Thursdays. Yeah,
and then they have chair exercises on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Go work
off that stuff. Oh yes, and they're right yeah, right now they're
doing basket weaving, so they had a lady come in to teach some of
our elders how to do that. You know, for the cost you just
gave out there, you can't go to a fast food restaurant and get even
a cheat meal for that. And with this, you're getting something that's nutritionally
laid out for you. It's going to do you a benefit. Beside,
it's just going down the ill gullet as they say, they do have a
good menu. Tree Kirby is the director of that program and she has she
has done so much fundraising. Is brought in an ice cream machine, a
slushy machine, and I can't even think of what a popcorn machine. So
she's she's really vamping that program. So them elders really like it. And
they've got a really great salad bar. Yeah, I've been told is the
best one in town. There. You get go green Man, you gotta
go green to the Veggie's there. What is lenape Connect, well, Nay
Connect. That's the tribal app that they have that the council approved and it's
a way that people can put um it's like a just an app like Facebook
without the public hi looking in. It's specific to the tribal members and so
they can put it on their device and just at the touch of a button,
scroll just like you can and see what other people have posted about,
what other topics that they choose to add to their categories. So whether it's
cultural events, um, something specific to the pow wow, maybe some pow
wow pictures, maybe reunion pictures. Something just to connect other Delaware with other
Delaware that may not have known that they were on there without the out So
it's just a connection, very convenient connection to connection to all. You can
keep the circle circle exactly exactly. I don't know if that made a sense
to anybody else, but it made sense to me. Now we have the
Delaware Indian News. It's published Airvoy Quarter, and I understand that is that
is that online or is that a paperwork? It is it is housed online
on our website. You can see an online version that's up there um all
the time. It's um in the all the campus locations. You can pick
up a coffee. There's a house coffee. You can subscribe if you're non
Delaware. You can subscribe for twenty dollars a year. And it's just chalk
full of all the activities that are happening on campus off campus. They try
to interview a youth or an elder, and we're reaching out across the nation
and trying to get an insight of others and trying to tie everybody together and
that have that connectivity in that paper. So it's really fun. And this
month we had a twenty four page paper. We're working on trying to get
lots of new pictures and lots of new activity and if anybody is interested,
then we're happy to even provide ads. So definitely reach out. You can
reach out at den at Delaware Tribe dot org and we can ask any questions.
This is really cool. Now. One thing that stood out when I
first moved to town, this is the first thing I heard about the Delaware
Tribe is you have this service. It's vital and it is for families and
Children's services. And I came to town four years ago. This is one
of the first five or six things I heard about, and it was it
was the tribe doing this. Tell us about it. Yes, the must
Violence program is with our Family and Children's Services and it's not just only for
our members, but it is for the community, for anyone in Bartlesville.
Shanna, do you want to give an update on our FCS. We currently
have a new director in FCS and her name is Pamela Wiggins and she is
in the process of gaining her footing, but she has an amazing staff that
is absolutely helping her with that. We have a domestic violence program that assists
individuals. I'm not going to say women, because it could be men,
it could be anybody. But they assist individuals who are in a potentially dangerous
situation. They assist them with the ability to file a po they assist them
with the ability to obtain housing. They assystem with building resumes, doing what
they need to do to get established and get on their feet. And there
are they have many different resources at their fingertips and in order to do that,
and if anyone is in need of that service, I would absolutely encourage
them to call the twenty four hour hotline at nine one eight three three one
seven three four nine and they will absolutely get on board and take care of
you. We have someone covering that hotline twenty four hours a day every day,
so in that hotlines more like a lifeline. Do absolutely it can and
will in many occasions it has, yes, got people out of situations they
didn't ask to be in correct. Oh man, this is great. Folks
want to learn more about the Udelaware Tribe of Indians. How do we find
out? You can go to Delaware Tribe dot org, which is our website.
We have a Facebook page. You can stop by our center at fifty
one hundred Tuxedo Boulevard. Again that's at the corner of Tuxedo and Madison.
Ladies, I want to thank you for just a point. That's a lot
of information in fifteen minutes, but thanks for giving us the update. Well,
thank you for the opportunity and we are happy to be here all right,
anytime you want doors open, Ladies, thank you very much, thank
you very much, and you