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Good morning, good morning, good
morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.

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It's time now for our community connection
right here on K one, the

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one you trust. Oh goodness sakes, folks, it is great to be

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back. It's great to be anywhere, to be quite honest with you,

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but when you're with good friends,
it's always even better. John, how

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are you doing, brother? I
am doing great, Tom. Just the

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church traditional Cherokee a greeting to o
ceo which means hello, and osta son

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alee, which means good morning,
oh thank you. John Weston is with

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us here and he is with the
Washington County Cherokee Association, among other things.

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You represent as far as the Cherokee
Nation. Now we've got a cultural

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celebration coming out, I understand,
and it's going to be big. It's

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going to be packed, Tom.
It's going to be next Saturday, October

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the twenty first, from ten to
three pm. And that's the Washington County

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Cherokee Association Community Building, which if
you I don't know, that's located near

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Oshleda. We're located one and a
half miles west of Highway seventy five on

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County Road twenty nine hundred. And
that's right This is directly east of the

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Kuyskui Health Clinic. That day we're
going to It's like I said, it's

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going to be packed. We're going
to have Cherokee speakers, artists, authors,

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crafts people. Some of the people
that are having at our event are

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Abraham Bearpah. He's a motivational speaker
and cultural activist. He happens to be

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the nephew of former Chief Woman Mankiller. He wrote a book called Walking in

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Balance, which is a great guide
to providing and maintaining a mental well being,

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especially you know, and today we
have a fast paced and very complex

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world, and he kind of teaches
that balance between life and work, and

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also he touches on topics such as
addiction, which I know is a very

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important topic for a lot of people, especially in the Native community. We're

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going to have Lauren Field, she
is the former Miss Cheroke twenty two twenty

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three. She's going to be another
cultural presenter. We're going to have author

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John Ketcher Junior. He's written several
books, including Journey of the Four Baskets,

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Stories from Last Wednesday, and a
couple of books on the paranorma,

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which is kind of cool. You
don't really see that among Native authors,

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but it's weird stuff and more weird
stuff. Vivian Kottrell, she's a Cherokee

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National Treasurer. She's also a basket
maker. She's been weaving baskets now for

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fifty years. And for those of
those of you who don't know, the

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title of Cherokee National treasure is given
to those members of our tribe who have

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made significant contributions to our arts,
our language, our culture, and generally,

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you know, it's a lifetime commitment
that they've done for the tribe,

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usually around twenty years or so,
will recognize them that they have been significant

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contributors to promoting our culture. And
we're gonna have Debbie Dennis, she'll also

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be with us. She specializes in
basketry and corn hostalls. Jules Thornton of

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Water Spider Creation. She's a former
Miss Cherokee. Your talents are tear dresses,

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scarves and bunker Tomaccasin's, Pam Kerrico
who's a fabric artist, and Gina

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Thompson who's an other basket artists.
Joe Don Brave, he's a well known

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Cherokee painter. He'll be joining us. I was just admiring some of his

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incredible work at the eighteenth Annual Cherokee
Art Market and he was at the Hard

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Rock Casino. Yes amos Anatoulsa.
That's right. His work is also being

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featured at the JSB Holiday Market,
which is john Stone Sarah Building Holiday Market.

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They're going to be having here actually
next Saturday. Patrick Lowry will be

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with us. He specializes in making
medicine bags and painting. And here's the

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other thing. We're gonna have plenty
of hands on activities for the kids and

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the adults. For example, we're
going to be doing pottery making which is

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taught by Crystal Hannah, basket making, toad by Alice Wilder, feather painting

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which is going to be done by
Bartiswell educator. And one of people may

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recognize this name, Bobby Sexton.
She was the former Oak Park Elementary School

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principal. She's going to be helping
us with that. She loves to do

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hands on activities with the kids.
We're going to be making blow darts and

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teaching people how to make blow darts, which traditional Cherokee tool. We'll be

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doing some demonstrations demonstrations of traditional games
such as tomahawk throwing. In fact,

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this year was the second annual Kooy
Skooy District Tomahawk Competition. Now, let

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go, Oh you know what went
really really really well. You know the

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first year there were only two teams
competing with the Cherokee Cultural Community from Dewey

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and NAFI, which is a North
American fellowship based in South Cofferville. This

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year we had five teams, and
if you think about it, you have

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seven members to a team, six
members, one alternate, so you really

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had thirty five participants. This year
we were very close to wedding. And

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the funny thing is I only learned
to throw at tomawk about two months ago.

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Well there you go, and the
people hosting the event actually taught me

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how to throw the tomahawk properly.
But in the end, in exactly in

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the end, we had a hail
Mary pass by a person up there we

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call Smiling Charge Earley Crane. He
clinched the trophy, snatched it right out

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of our hands. And so now
a beautiful trophy which consists of a tomahawk,

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and we actually our targets are the
playing cards that we place on the

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throwing hords. Oh, so basically, you have a tomahawk, you have

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the cut card that was the winning
card, and then you have a picture

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of the winning team. It's all
on a shadow box. And for one

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year it was at the Cherokee Cultural
Center in Dewey Well. Now for the

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next year and with all the accompanying
bragging rights, it's gonna be at the

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NAFEW building of South Coffeeville. But
I have a failing. The next year

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it's gonna be nicely positioned at a
place of prominence of the Washington County Cherokee

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Association building in OCEANLANDA. Oh,
there you go. It's a traveling trophy

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exactly, the traveling trophy. And
our team is the the Turkey Warriors or

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the Fighting Turkeys. And a word
for Turkey and Cherokee is Ghanah, and

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that, if you don't know,
is the traditional war bird of the Cherokee

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people. So that a lot of
the reasons that we chose that name.

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Anyway, for the event on Saturday, we'll also be demonstrating and having spectators

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participate in the sport of chunky.
And if you don't know, chunky is

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a game that has gone back about
fourteen hundred years. It's not just a

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Cherokee tradition. It applies to it's
ubiquitous throughout Native culture, but it actually

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is a little different in the Cherokee
Nation, and that traditionally in the Cherokee

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Nation. I'm not sure if it's
done modern in the modern times, but

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the chunky stick would actually have markings
and if those markings aligned with some of

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the markings on the chunky stone,
then you would receive different numbers of points

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for those got and he used to
be a very serious game. In fact,

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people would bet their entire possessions,
all the possessions on a single game

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or you know, and if you
lost that game, you were ruined.

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But we don't. We don't have
the high stakes sort of game that we're

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going to have down Saturday. It's
going to be it's going to be light,

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it's gonna be fun, and it's
just going to be a way to

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learn something about our culture. Oh
good, and you know, really is

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interesting. We have a word.
It's coming to mind because the NODA Cherokee

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Community Foundation. I need to give
a shout out to them. They provided

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us with a chunky stone and the
chunky spears we needed for our game.

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And there's a word that we use
in Cherokee Nation. And I think it's

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applicable here is goodoogie and that just
means working together. We have three communities

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in District twelve. We have the
Cherokee Cultural Community up in Dewey, which

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is seven hundred East Durham. We
have the Washington County Cherokee Association, which

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is like I described, just off
Highway seventy five there in eroscial Lata.

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And then we have the Noda Cherokee
Community Foundation, which is a community building

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we have just across the street from
the Will Rogers Health Center there in Nowata.

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And this is one of the things
we've been really working toward, is

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to get all of our communities together, working together, supporting each other and

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sharing our culture. And the thing
is we want everyone to come out of

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these events. In fact, just
last week we had the Noada the Nouda

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Craft Fair at Third Community over there, and now on this Saturday, we're

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going to be having our event in
neiroschuleda. Later this week Thursday, we're

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going to have Will Chavez, the
assist Senator of the Cherokee Phoenix, at

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our community meeting for the Cherokee Cultural
Center or Community in Dewey, and that's

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going to be at six pm.
All of our meetings start at six pm.

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We have six pm to six thirty
as a visitation, six thirty to

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seven is a potluck. Seven o'clock
is our actual meeting or presentation, and

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the meeting times for those. For
example, the first Thursday of the month

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is when the Washington County Cherokee Association
meets in Ocelida, The third Thursday is

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when the Cherokee Cultural Community meets in
Dewey, and the third Tuesday is when

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the Noda Cherokee Community Foundation meets in
Noada. So we try to separate these

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days out so that we can all
circulate and just share a culture with one

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another, have a good time,
and just celebrate being Cherokee. Hey,

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John, we're going to take a
little quick break when we come back with

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I want to talk about some of
the musical guests you're going to have at

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the big celebration coming up next week. Okay, sure, all right,

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folks, you're listening to our community
connection. We have John listen on here

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with Cherokee Nation. We'll be right
back after these words. Hey everyone,

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this is Pastor Rando and Pastor Shiloh
with Get Real Ministries and this is yours

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get Real minute. Most everyone that's
heard the scripture John three sixteen. For

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God so loved the world that he
gave his only begotten son, whosoever should

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believe in him should not perish,
but have everlasting life. I believe that

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that scripture is really of no avail
if not followed up by the very next

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scripture, John three p. Seventeen. For God did not send his son

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into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might

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be saved. And that is the
foundational scripture by which get Real Ministries was

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founded. Come worship Jesus with us
Sunday's ten thirty am, Wednesday six thirty

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pm, Saturday night six pm,
and Jesus further third Saturday every month Jesus

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Bird As an outreach we do third
Saturday of every month where they receive the

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Word of God, the Love of
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free to go food bags. Come
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Real Ministry Services Sunday at ten thirty
am and Wednesdays at six thirty pm.

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Is it time to start thinking about
a new car, but the thought of

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dealing with the large dealerships is just
too intimidating, too confusing. There is

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an easier way, tall Grass Motors. Tall Grass Motors doesn't play all the

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confusing games a large dealerships play.
Tall Grass Motors has continually been voted Bartlesville's

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best used car dealer year after year. Go by tall Grass Motors today and

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enjoy looking at over sixty used cars, trucks, and SUVs, all priced

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to save you money. Tall Grass
Motors Highway seventy five North in Bartlesville.

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I'll never forget this call. My
freshman roommate. His mother called one day

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and she said Tim, and I
could tell by her voice something wrong,

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And I said what's wrong? She
said, can you get my boy home

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from California? He's passed away out
there. And that crushed me, but

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I said, I sure will,
I'll take care of it. I said,

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I'll figure it out. I will
get your son home. If that's

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what you do, and your loved
one dies, asn't matter if it's three

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in the morning, you call your
funeral director and say, Tim, my

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loved one just died. What do
I do? And I tell you one

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of my greatest stories I could tell. Six o'clock one Christmas morning, a

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lady calls me. She said,
they came over to get my aunt for

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Christmas breakfast and found her dad and
her home. What do we do?

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I said, Let me get dressed. I'll be right there and we'll just

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walk through this together. It's going
to be all right. I'll take good

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care of her. Years later,
she told me that was the single most

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comforting phrase she'd ever heard. It'll
be all right. We'll walk through this

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together. Arnold Moore and me Camp
Funeral Home seven ten Dewey martls Vellee.

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We will walk through this together.
And welcome back to our community connection right

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here on Gay one, the one
you drust. John Weston is here with

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us. He's with the Cherokee Nation
and the Washington County Cherokee Association. Big

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event that is coming up. It's
next Saturday from ten am to three pm

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at the Washington County and Cherokee Association
about a mile and a half west of

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Highway seventy five on County Road to
twenty nine hundred, right next door to

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the Cooley's Cooey Health Clinic. Now, you told us about a lot of

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these folks who are going to be
speaking, a lot of the artisans that

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are going to be there. We
have live music and it's outstanding live music,

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absolutely right, Tom. This is
the first time in the history of

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our cultural celebrations that we're going to
have live music. One of the performers,

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we're really excited about that. As
a local person here is a Scott

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Taylor knows Scott Scott. Yeah,
he's well known a venues like the Gray

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Dog Listening Room, which is a
great place for live music. If you

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ever get a chance to go out
there. I've never had a bad show

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there. He's going to take the
stage at ten am and he's playing from

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twelve and he's going to be playing
from ten to about eleven thirty. And

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then we're going to have Agalisiga Hugh
J. Mackie, who is going to

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be playing from twelve to We're really
excited. He's kind of our headliner.

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He's fluent in Cherokee. He's been
featured events like the opening of the Bob

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Dylan Center in Tulsa. That's no
small feet, that's true, that's true.

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And at the he was part of
the dollar plus of concert they had

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last year at the Cherokee national holiday
over Labor Day weekend. He on a

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personal note, I met Chuge about
a year ago. I had no idea

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who his father was, who was
related to It was just somebody that I

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met circulating around Cherokee Nation. And
it turns out I had known his father

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for about forty years since you guys
were in grade school. We grew up.

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We grew up in the in the
community of Copan, Oklahoma, and

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now they lived down around Kinwood and
Tahlequah in that area. And I was

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just amazed because you had met this
just impressive young man, and I thought,

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Wow, this guy is really great. And you know, the great

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thing about Chow is he takes he
takes the modern country and blues songs and

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other songs, and he adopts them
to the Cherokee language. And if I

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was telling you earlier that you know, back in nineteen seventy five we had

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about twenty thousand Cherokee speakers. Well
now we have less than two thousand Cherokee

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speakers. So the Cherokee is really
making investments, you know, with the

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establishment of the Durban Feeling School and
other things to promote our language because you

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know, once you lose your language, you could lose customs, you can

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lose traditions and other things, and
you really cease. Really, in our

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opinion, you might lose your tribe. So we're trying to keep the language

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alive, trying to keep the culture
alive, trying to keep arts alive,

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you know, and just promoting everything
we can to do with the Cherokee tribe.

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Now, this the thing about the
language. I've been hearing this from

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Cherokee citizens. Yeah, the jokes
are funny. You're in Cherokee. Yeah,

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they're just a little bit more descriptive
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And the trash talk it's funnier in
Cherokee too. I wasn't going to go

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there, but yeah, I heard
that too. You they do have a

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book Funny, they do have a
book was published several years ago No called

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trash Talking in Cherokee. And it's
nothing that I would really promote or recommend.

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If you want to learn the Cherokee
language, you know, maybe later

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on, if you've mastered it,
it might make a little more sense to

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you. It might be a little
funnier. But it's interesting because Juje's father,

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like I said, Ryan mackew I've
known him for about forty years.

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He's also going to be one of
our speakers. He speaks fluid Cherokee.

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In fact, he was the manager
of the Master Apprentice language program for Cherokee

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Nation. And he's a ceremonial chief
at several of the ceremonial grounds down around

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Telequah, and he is passing on
the legacy of traditional Cherokee ceremonies, prayers,

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and customs that otherwise might be lost, you know, as with each

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of our elders who pass, that's
just another piece of our history that's passing

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too, So we're trying to preserve
that and also let everyone know we're holding

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a raffle for the event. You
can either message us on our Facebook page

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you watch Anton Kind of Cherokee Association, or send an email to the WCCA

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Secretary twenty twenty three at gmail dot
com. The Raffle prizes are a grand

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prize of one night's stay at the
Hard Rock Casino with food voucher. First

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prize is a silver and turquoise necklace, second prize a tailgate grilling package from

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eighteen thirty nine Cherokee Meat Company,
and third prize is a WCCA customs a

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little bit holder display. You don't
need to be present to win, and

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we'll be selling these tickets throughout the
day of the event and the winners will

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be announced at three pm that day. Clause you get in is absolutely free,

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but anything like tickets and other things
that you might want to purchase,

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bring bring some dollar bills will be
okay, exactly, and we'll have food

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vendors there. Food vendors will be
the Chatterbox, Simp and Sweet, and

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we're going to have an interesting dessert
truck. Basically it's called Frios and they

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specializing formet popsicles. Okay, John, you had me at gourmet, but

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now you said popsicles. I'm definitely
exactly for that man. And you know

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October twenty first, that's the perfect
time of year for a popsicle right round

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here? It is? It is? Yeah, won't melon you exactly?

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John? I want to thank you
very much. If folks want to find

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out more you you mentioned the facebook
page test again, Yes, you can

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follow us on our Facebook page at
Washington Kuint of Cherokee Association. Also,

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the Cherokee Cultural Community in Dewey has
a Facebook page, so feel free to

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follow either one of the all of
them. And also while I'm still here,

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yeah, I wear another hat.
I'm the president collect of our President

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elect of the Kuanas Club of Barnesville. Yes you are. And Wednesday,

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November fifteenth, at eleven thirty,
we will be having or'll be hosting Chief

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Hoskin. He's going to be coming
here to speak on the topic of tribal

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sovereignty and that's going to be at
the Tri County Technology Events Center. We'd

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love to see everyone there. Everyone
is invited. It's going to be at

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eleven thirty. Okay, all right, We're encouraging everyone to attend because I

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think it's going to be a very
interesting presentation for everyone. All right,

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she can swing by before he pops
over there. Yeah, absolutely, yeah.

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Yeah. We don't seem enough around
here. We name on telephone.

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It's like, come well, sit
to cherch. I honestly, guy is

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so busy he does. I don't
think he does. Yeah, I don't

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think he does either. Yeah.
All right, hey John, thank you

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once again. We'll see everybody Saturday. All right, you've been listening to

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