Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.
It's time now for our community connection right here on K one, the
one you trust. Oh goodness sakes, folks, it is great to be
back. It's great to be anywhere, to be quite honest with you,
but when you're with good friends, it's always even better. John, how
are you doing, brother? I am doing great, Tom. Just the
church traditional Cherokee a greeting to o ceo which means hello, and osta son
alee, which means good morning, oh thank you. John Weston is with
us here and he is with the Washington County Cherokee Association, among other things.
You represent as far as the Cherokee Nation. Now we've got a cultural
celebration coming out, I understand, and it's going to be big. It's
going to be packed, Tom. It's going to be next Saturday, October
the twenty first, from ten to three pm. And that's the Washington County
Cherokee Association Community Building, which if you I don't know, that's located near
Oshleda. We're located one and a half miles west of Highway seventy five on
County Road twenty nine hundred. And that's right This is directly east of the
Kuyskui Health Clinic. That day we're going to It's like I said, it's
going to be packed. We're going to have Cherokee speakers, artists, authors,
crafts people. Some of the people that are having at our event are
Abraham Bearpah. He's a motivational speaker and cultural activist. He happens to be
the nephew of former Chief Woman Mankiller. He wrote a book called Walking in
Balance, which is a great guide to providing and maintaining a mental well being,
especially you know, and today we have a fast paced and very complex
world, and he kind of teaches that balance between life and work, and
also he touches on topics such as addiction, which I know is a very
important topic for a lot of people, especially in the Native community. We're
going to have Lauren Field, she is the former Miss Cheroke twenty two twenty
three. She's going to be another cultural presenter. We're going to have author
John Ketcher Junior. He's written several books, including Journey of the Four Baskets,
Stories from Last Wednesday, and a couple of books on the paranorma,
which is kind of cool. You don't really see that among Native authors,
but it's weird stuff and more weird stuff. Vivian Kottrell, she's a Cherokee
National Treasurer. She's also a basket maker. She's been weaving baskets now for
fifty years. And for those of those of you who don't know, the
title of Cherokee National treasure is given to those members of our tribe who have
made significant contributions to our arts, our language, our culture, and generally,
you know, it's a lifetime commitment that they've done for the tribe,
usually around twenty years or so, will recognize them that they have been significant
contributors to promoting our culture. And we're gonna have Debbie Dennis, she'll also
be with us. She specializes in basketry and corn hostalls. Jules Thornton of
Water Spider Creation. She's a former Miss Cherokee. Your talents are tear dresses,
scarves and bunker Tomaccasin's, Pam Kerrico who's a fabric artist, and Gina
Thompson who's an other basket artists. Joe Don Brave, he's a well known
Cherokee painter. He'll be joining us. I was just admiring some of his
incredible work at the eighteenth Annual Cherokee Art Market and he was at the Hard
Rock Casino. Yes amos Anatoulsa. That's right. His work is also being
featured at the JSB Holiday Market, which is john Stone Sarah Building Holiday Market.
They're going to be having here actually next Saturday. Patrick Lowry will be
with us. He specializes in making medicine bags and painting. And here's the
other thing. We're gonna have plenty of hands on activities for the kids and
the adults. For example, we're going to be doing pottery making which is
taught by Crystal Hannah, basket making, toad by Alice Wilder, feather painting
which is going to be done by Bartiswell educator. And one of people may
recognize this name, Bobby Sexton. She was the former Oak Park Elementary School
principal. She's going to be helping us with that. She loves to do
hands on activities with the kids. We're going to be making blow darts and
teaching people how to make blow darts, which traditional Cherokee tool. We'll be
doing some demonstrations demonstrations of traditional games such as tomahawk throwing. In fact,
this year was the second annual Kooy Skooy District Tomahawk Competition. Now, let
go, Oh you know what went really really really well. You know the
first year there were only two teams competing with the Cherokee Cultural Community from Dewey
and NAFI, which is a North American fellowship based in South Cofferville. This
year we had five teams, and if you think about it, you have
seven members to a team, six members, one alternate, so you really
had thirty five participants. This year we were very close to wedding. And
the funny thing is I only learned to throw at tomawk about two months ago.
Well there you go, and the people hosting the event actually taught me
how to throw the tomahawk properly. But in the end, in exactly in
the end, we had a hail Mary pass by a person up there we
call Smiling Charge Earley Crane. He clinched the trophy, snatched it right out
of our hands. And so now a beautiful trophy which consists of a tomahawk,
and we actually our targets are the playing cards that we place on the
throwing hords. Oh, so basically, you have a tomahawk, you have
the cut card that was the winning card, and then you have a picture
of the winning team. It's all on a shadow box. And for one
year it was at the Cherokee Cultural Center in Dewey Well. Now for the
next year and with all the accompanying bragging rights, it's gonna be at the
NAFEW building of South Coffeeville. But I have a failing. The next year
it's gonna be nicely positioned at a place of prominence of the Washington County Cherokee
Association building in OCEANLANDA. Oh, there you go. It's a traveling trophy
exactly, the traveling trophy. And our team is the the Turkey Warriors or
the Fighting Turkeys. And a word for Turkey and Cherokee is Ghanah, and
that, if you don't know, is the traditional war bird of the Cherokee
people. So that a lot of the reasons that we chose that name.
Anyway, for the event on Saturday, we'll also be demonstrating and having spectators
participate in the sport of chunky. And if you don't know, chunky is
a game that has gone back about fourteen hundred years. It's not just a
Cherokee tradition. It applies to it's ubiquitous throughout Native culture, but it actually
is a little different in the Cherokee Nation, and that traditionally in the Cherokee
Nation. I'm not sure if it's done modern in the modern times, but
the chunky stick would actually have markings and if those markings aligned with some of
the markings on the chunky stone, then you would receive different numbers of points
for those got and he used to be a very serious game. In fact,
people would bet their entire possessions, all the possessions on a single game
or you know, and if you lost that game, you were ruined.
But we don't. We don't have the high stakes sort of game that we're
going to have down Saturday. It's going to be it's going to be light,
it's gonna be fun, and it's just going to be a way to
learn something about our culture. Oh good, and you know, really is
interesting. We have a word. It's coming to mind because the NODA Cherokee
Community Foundation. I need to give a shout out to them. They provided
us with a chunky stone and the chunky spears we needed for our game.
And there's a word that we use in Cherokee Nation. And I think it's
applicable here is goodoogie and that just means working together. We have three communities
in District twelve. We have the Cherokee Cultural Community up in Dewey, which
is seven hundred East Durham. We have the Washington County Cherokee Association, which
is like I described, just off Highway seventy five there in eroscial Lata.
And then we have the Noda Cherokee Community Foundation, which is a community building
we have just across the street from the Will Rogers Health Center there in Nowata.
And this is one of the things we've been really working toward, is
to get all of our communities together, working together, supporting each other and
sharing our culture. And the thing is we want everyone to come out of
these events. In fact, just last week we had the Noada the Nouda
Craft Fair at Third Community over there, and now on this Saturday, we're
going to be having our event in neiroschuleda. Later this week Thursday, we're
going to have Will Chavez, the assist Senator of the Cherokee Phoenix, at
our community meeting for the Cherokee Cultural Center or Community in Dewey, and that's
going to be at six pm. All of our meetings start at six pm.
We have six pm to six thirty as a visitation, six thirty to
seven is a potluck. Seven o'clock is our actual meeting or presentation, and
the meeting times for those. For example, the first Thursday of the month
is when the Washington County Cherokee Association meets in Ocelida, The third Thursday is
when the Cherokee Cultural Community meets in Dewey, and the third Tuesday is when
the Noda Cherokee Community Foundation meets in Noada. So we try to separate these
days out so that we can all circulate and just share a culture with one
another, have a good time, and just celebrate being Cherokee. Hey,
John, we're going to take a little quick break when we come back with
I want to talk about some of the musical guests you're going to have at
the big celebration coming up next week. Okay, sure, all right,
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We will walk through this together. And welcome back to our community connection right
here on Gay one, the one you drust. John Weston is here with
us. He's with the Cherokee Nation and the Washington County Cherokee Association. Big
event that is coming up. It's next Saturday from ten am to three pm
at the Washington County and Cherokee Association about a mile and a half west of
Highway seventy five on County Road to twenty nine hundred, right next door to
the Cooley's Cooey Health Clinic. Now, you told us about a lot of
these folks who are going to be speaking, a lot of the artisans that
are going to be there. We have live music and it's outstanding live music,
absolutely right, Tom. This is the first time in the history of
our cultural celebrations that we're going to have live music. One of the performers,
we're really excited about that. As a local person here is a Scott
Taylor knows Scott Scott. Yeah, he's well known a venues like the Gray
Dog Listening Room, which is a great place for live music. If you
ever get a chance to go out there. I've never had a bad show
there. He's going to take the stage at ten am and he's playing from
twelve and he's going to be playing from ten to about eleven thirty. And
then we're going to have Agalisiga Hugh J. Mackie, who is going to
be playing from twelve to We're really excited. He's kind of our headliner.
He's fluent in Cherokee. He's been featured events like the opening of the Bob
Dylan Center in Tulsa. That's no small feet, that's true, that's true.
And at the he was part of the dollar plus of concert they had
last year at the Cherokee national holiday over Labor Day weekend. He on a
personal note, I met Chuge about a year ago. I had no idea
who his father was, who was related to It was just somebody that I
met circulating around Cherokee Nation. And it turns out I had known his father
for about forty years since you guys were in grade school. We grew up.
We grew up in the in the community of Copan, Oklahoma, and
now they lived down around Kinwood and Tahlequah in that area. And I was
just amazed because you had met this just impressive young man, and I thought,
Wow, this guy is really great. And you know, the great
thing about Chow is he takes he takes the modern country and blues songs and
other songs, and he adopts them to the Cherokee language. And if I
was telling you earlier that you know, back in nineteen seventy five we had
about twenty thousand Cherokee speakers. Well now we have less than two thousand Cherokee
speakers. So the Cherokee is really making investments, you know, with the
establishment of the Durban Feeling School and other things to promote our language because you
know, once you lose your language, you could lose customs, you can
lose traditions and other things, and you really cease. Really, in our
opinion, you might lose your tribe. So we're trying to keep the language
alive, trying to keep the culture alive, trying to keep arts alive,
you know, and just promoting everything we can to do with the Cherokee tribe.
Now, this the thing about the language. I've been hearing this from
Cherokee citizens. Yeah, the jokes are funny. You're in Cherokee. Yeah,
they're just a little bit more descriptive and you get it a lot.
And the trash talk it's funnier in Cherokee too. I wasn't going to go
there, but yeah, I heard that too. You they do have a
book Funny, they do have a book was published several years ago No called
trash Talking in Cherokee. And it's nothing that I would really promote or recommend.
If you want to learn the Cherokee language, you know, maybe later
on, if you've mastered it, it might make a little more sense to
you. It might be a little funnier. But it's interesting because Juje's father,
like I said, Ryan mackew I've known him for about forty years.
He's also going to be one of our speakers. He speaks fluid Cherokee.
In fact, he was the manager of the Master Apprentice language program for Cherokee
Nation. And he's a ceremonial chief at several of the ceremonial grounds down around
Telequah, and he is passing on the legacy of traditional Cherokee ceremonies, prayers,
and customs that otherwise might be lost, you know, as with each
of our elders who pass, that's just another piece of our history that's passing
too, So we're trying to preserve that and also let everyone know we're holding
a raffle for the event. You can either message us on our Facebook page
you watch Anton Kind of Cherokee Association, or send an email to the WCCA
Secretary twenty twenty three at gmail dot com. The Raffle prizes are a grand
prize of one night's stay at the Hard Rock Casino with food voucher. First
prize is a silver and turquoise necklace, second prize a tailgate grilling package from
eighteen thirty nine Cherokee Meat Company, and third prize is a WCCA customs a
little bit holder display. You don't need to be present to win, and
we'll be selling these tickets throughout the day of the event and the winners will
be announced at three pm that day. Clause you get in is absolutely free,
but anything like tickets and other things that you might want to purchase,
bring bring some dollar bills will be okay, exactly, and we'll have food
vendors there. Food vendors will be the Chatterbox, Simp and Sweet, and
we're going to have an interesting dessert truck. Basically it's called Frios and they
specializing formet popsicles. Okay, John, you had me at gourmet, but
now you said popsicles. I'm definitely exactly for that man. And you know
October twenty first, that's the perfect time of year for a popsicle right round
here? It is? It is? Yeah, won't melon you exactly?
John? I want to thank you very much. If folks want to find
out more you you mentioned the facebook page test again, Yes, you can
follow us on our Facebook page at Washington Kuint of Cherokee Association. Also,
the Cherokee Cultural Community in Dewey has a Facebook page, so feel free to
follow either one of the all of them. And also while I'm still here,
yeah, I wear another hat. I'm the president collect of our President
elect of the Kuanas Club of Barnesville. Yes you are. And Wednesday,
November fifteenth, at eleven thirty, we will be having or'll be hosting Chief
Hoskin. He's going to be coming here to speak on the topic of tribal
sovereignty and that's going to be at the Tri County Technology Events Center. We'd
love to see everyone there. Everyone is invited. It's going to be at
eleven thirty. Okay, all right, We're encouraging everyone to attend because I
think it's going to be a very interesting presentation for everyone. All right,
she can swing by before he pops over there. Yeah, absolutely, yeah.
Yeah. We don't seem enough around here. We name on telephone.
It's like, come well, sit to cherch. I honestly, guy is
so busy he does. I don't think he does. Yeah, I don't
think he does either. Yeah. All right, hey John, thank you
once again. We'll see everybody Saturday. All right, you've been listening to
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