Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.
Speaker 1: It's time now for one on one with a bro.
Speaker 1: Actually it's two on one, and it's okay.
Speaker 2: It's all right. These folks know a lot of things.
Speaker 2: There are friends here from.
Speaker 1: Bartlesville Health and Rehab. We have a Tammy Founder, director
Speaker 1: of Nursing. Hello, Hello, and also Janet Graham, who is
Speaker 1: here today's she's the director of Rehab.
Speaker 2: How are you doing?
Speaker 3: I'm doing great.
Speaker 1: How are you? I will soon to be wonderful, I guess,
Speaker 1: because we're going to be talking about how we get
Speaker 1: better faster, and that is one of the cool things
Speaker 1: about Bartlesfield Health and Rehab is the rehab.
Speaker 2: First of all, tell us a little bit about yourself.
Speaker 4: I'm an occupational therapy assistant. I've worked at Bartlesville Health
Speaker 4: and Rehab for twenty seven years now. I've also worked
Speaker 4: part time or PRN at other facilities, and Bartlesville Health
Speaker 4: and Rehab has always just been my home.
Speaker 3: It has my heart because I know that they care
Speaker 3: about their residence.
Speaker 1: You know, that's something we run into an awful lot,
Speaker 1: isn't it.
Speaker 2: A lot of long term a lot of long term employees.
Speaker 1: Tell us about Bartschweel Health and Rehab in particular here
Speaker 1: that give us the overarch well.
Speaker 5: It is owned by Alex Siminci Dald of course, and
Speaker 5: they're good friends of both of ours, and of course
Speaker 5: I'm kind of new to the facility, but it's a
Speaker 5: great place. They've you know, they they we have long
Speaker 5: term care, we have skilled uh nursing, we have of
Speaker 5: course the rehab that's happening. We got the new memory
Speaker 5: care that last time I was here we talked about,
Speaker 5: and uh, we've got a lot of good things happening new.
Speaker 5: You know, Cordell Rumsey came back and I've me and
Speaker 5: him kind of came along within the short time period together.
Speaker 5: So I think we're all just excited about the big
Speaker 5: changes and and what we can do to you know, uh,
Speaker 5: keep up with the market and keep up with the needs,
Speaker 5: and and take good care of our residents.
Speaker 2: To get back to the rehab services.
Speaker 1: First of all, for the folks who are there for
Speaker 1: a short time, I understand these little victories each and
Speaker 1: every day you're kind of celebrated, aren't they.
Speaker 3: They are when someone comes to.
Speaker 4: Us after they've had a surgery or a brief illness,
Speaker 4: in the hospital, they get to a level that they
Speaker 4: may not.
Speaker 3: Be able to get home quite safely.
Speaker 4: So they'll come to us as kind of transitional period, right,
Speaker 4: and we get to see them from the start, talk
Speaker 4: to them, talk to their families, find out their goals,
Speaker 4: and we make their goals our goals. We want to
Speaker 4: if they're going to go home, we want them to
Speaker 4: be able to go home. We try to encourage them
Speaker 4: to stick with us for a short period of time
Speaker 4: so that allows us to get them to the highest
Speaker 4: level of independence and safety possible so that their success
Speaker 4: and can make it back.
Speaker 2: To their home. That's great.
Speaker 1: You know it's got to be hard coming off of
Speaker 1: high hospital stay and then you know, you got a
Speaker 1: little bit of hope that you know, I'm gonna get
Speaker 1: back home, but I got to do some work. Does
Speaker 1: it get a little overwhelming the first couple of days
Speaker 1: for the typical typical person coming.
Speaker 3: Into it, it does. And I usually talk to them about.
Speaker 4: You know, just stay with us, well, let's work this
Speaker 4: week and next week. Where you're going to look back
Speaker 4: and see where you were and where you are now.
Speaker 4: And that's how they can.
Speaker 3: See their progress from week to week.
Speaker 4: They a lot of times feel like they're not doing
Speaker 4: well and will point out, hey, last week you couldn't
Speaker 4: walk five feet and today you walk sixty five feet.
Speaker 4: So you know they're they're just because they they're their
Speaker 4: own worst critic. Basically, that's kind of a human thing,
Speaker 4: is So we basically they have to do the work,
Speaker 4: and we were quite clear with them on that.
Speaker 3: We're just kind of the directors.
Speaker 4: We kind of guide them through the process.
Speaker 3: So yes, yes, so we we push a little bit.
Speaker 1: Well that's good because you know, you can get some
Speaker 1: stubborn folks like me in there, you know, and without
Speaker 1: that little push.
Speaker 2: Or maybe a you know, box of dynamite or something
Speaker 2: like that. You know, I'm not going to go too far.
Speaker 2: So I understand.
Speaker 1: You know, everybody is different and you have to work
Speaker 1: with him the best way you can engage and push forward.
Speaker 2: So that that's really great.
Speaker 1: So you got a little bit of psychology and a
Speaker 1: whole lot of a whole lot of different tools at
Speaker 1: your toolbox to help people be the best.
Speaker 2: They can be. Yes, absolutely, my goodness sakes.
Speaker 1: And with the long term care folks, that's it's a
Speaker 1: little different, but we still work with them.
Speaker 4: Yes, it's a little different because the majority of them,
Speaker 4: because they're long term, they're going to be there. Sometimes
Speaker 4: long term care is only a couple of years. Sometimes
Speaker 4: it's for the rest of their lives. Sure, So we
Speaker 4: work on slowing the disease process as they get you know,
Speaker 4: like if they have Parkinson.
Speaker 3: Or COPD or whatever.
Speaker 4: We just work on them being as strong as independent
Speaker 4: as they can be in that facility so that they're
Speaker 4: much happier.
Speaker 1: That you can do for.
Speaker 4: Yourself, the happier you're going to be. You can live
Speaker 4: here and you can make a happy life here. That
Speaker 4: you'll be happiest if you do the majority of you know,
Speaker 4: like taking yourself to the bathroom or dressing yourself or
Speaker 4: just getting out of the room and attending social events.
Speaker 4: Anything you can do to make yourself as independent as
Speaker 4: possible will make you happier there.
Speaker 1: Just being independent enough to be social is probably a
Speaker 1: big thing for everyone.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And if they don't meet the skilled needs anymore,
Speaker 5: where maybe Jana or we have another friend named Gabe
Speaker 5: that helps her out. And we have a restorative program
Speaker 5: also that they can kind of transition over to. Oh
Speaker 5: and that is with one of our restorative aids who's
Speaker 5: more specialty trained to helping, whether.
Speaker 3: It be like a walk to dine.
Speaker 5: Is one of the things that he does just to
Speaker 5: encourage people to still kind of work.
Speaker 3: They may not, you know, qualify.
Speaker 5: To do skilled therapy, but he still works with them
Speaker 5: too kind of keep a maintained baseline of being able
Speaker 5: to move around and.
Speaker 3: Keep their body up to optimum.
Speaker 1: I can almost sense that some of the patients will
Speaker 1: establish like personal challenges for themselves.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm going to do this today. I'm going to
Speaker 2: do this a little bit better tomorrow.
Speaker 1: This is my goal for today, and you know, with
Speaker 1: any luck, I can do a little bit.
Speaker 2: Better to it.
Speaker 1: It's very much a little series of individual challenges, isn't.
Speaker 4: Absolutely Absolutely, we encourage them just to be the best
Speaker 4: version of yourself each day, each day and if you
Speaker 4: have a set back and don't let that determine the rest.
Speaker 3: Of your week or the of your life.
Speaker 4: Okay, there's ways tomorrow, let's try again, and let's get
Speaker 4: better and better.
Speaker 1: And a lot of times that's all it takes is
Speaker 1: just that one more try.
Speaker 2: Now, one more try. That's great.
Speaker 1: And of course with the memory care we talked about
Speaker 1: that the last time you were here. But this is
Speaker 1: a wonderful thing because not that long ago, if your
Speaker 1: memory was kind of on pause or they're not, it
Speaker 1: just felt like people threw up their hands and just said, well,
Speaker 1: we're going to do the best we can.
Speaker 2: But now we've got.
Speaker 1: More tools that are fused to keep people, as she say,
Speaker 1: be the best possible you you can be for the
Speaker 1: longest amount of time.
Speaker 5: And just because their memory care doesn't mean that they
Speaker 5: don't qualify for some skilled service. Jana has several that
Speaker 5: she goes back into the memory care unit and does
Speaker 5: some skilled therapy with them, and.
Speaker 3: Our speech therapist especially.
Speaker 4: She's just phenomenal when it comes to that because she
Speaker 4: can train the staff too on how to approach the
Speaker 4: person that has dementia or whatever, so that so that
Speaker 4: the communication is so much better and more comfortable for
Speaker 4: that resident.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, nobody needs to be startled, nobody needs to
Speaker 1: be confused, exactly. We can avoid that. You guys are special,
Speaker 1: kind of like angels on Earth. You're taking care of
Speaker 1: taking care of folks when they're having difficulty.
Speaker 2: Taking care of themselves.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: It takes a special heart to do that, isn't it.
Speaker 3: I've always known I was going to work in Jerias.
Speaker 4: I just have always felt like that we owe that
Speaker 4: generation everything.
Speaker 1: I had.
Speaker 4: I mean, now I'm part of that Jerry populations. So
Speaker 4: but it's it's funny because I don't feel like I mean,
Speaker 4: I still feel like I'm that younger person talking to
Speaker 4: him that I do. I just feel like we owe
Speaker 4: them the life that we have, the freedoms that we have.
Speaker 3: Everything we owe that generation, you know, so say it
Speaker 3: back to them.
Speaker 1: That is a beautiful story, a full line of thinking too.
Speaker 1: My son, I'm sixty five, I'm not exactly a young
Speaker 1: fun but my son, who's forty five, says, Dad, what's
Speaker 1: it like being old? I looked at any person and
Speaker 1: he said, you look starting when I said that, I said,
Speaker 1: I am. I said, until I catch a glance of
Speaker 1: myself in a reflection in a mirror or a window,
Speaker 1: a little glare or something like that. I'm still thirty
Speaker 1: thirty five years old, and it's not until I see
Speaker 1: a reflected image of myself that it dawns on me
Speaker 1: that I'm not.
Speaker 2: And I get the feeling.
Speaker 1: That many of us, as we age, that's pretty much
Speaker 1: where we are, and sometimes we can't understand why is
Speaker 1: it I can't move like that anymore, and it's very confounding.
Speaker 2: Is that part of the.
Speaker 3: That's part of it, and part of it is that
Speaker 3: saying use it or lose it.
Speaker 4: You know, I really encourage people to exercise and walk
Speaker 4: as much as possible, people out in the community, because
Speaker 4: when you stop, that's when it all especially as you're
Speaker 4: getting older, and if you get ill, it just kind
Speaker 4: of all goes away and then you have to start
Speaker 4: over again.
Speaker 1: With me that that is one of the best things
Speaker 1: you can do without having to see a doctor. Is
Speaker 1: you know, if you can go a mile a day,
Speaker 1: maybe two, and again you're not sprinting, you're just enjoying
Speaker 1: the outdoors. Yeah, just block out some time to do that.
Speaker 1: That pays dividends. Now at the Barnwell Health and Rehab
Speaker 1: it's really easy to find.
Speaker 2: I understand that there's a heck of a landmark just right.
Speaker 3: In front of you, just right behind the hospital, well
Speaker 3: the north of the hospital, I guess in Yardosville.
Speaker 5: North of the hospital thirty four thirty four Kentucky.
Speaker 2: Please can we come and visit and take a little look?
Speaker 5: Absolutely, come come in and anyone at the front who
Speaker 5: greets them, they can ask for a tour.
Speaker 1: And one good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome,
Speaker 1: welcome time now for Native beat right here on K one,
Speaker 1: the one you trust, and we have mister Washtlton here
Speaker 1: with us.
Speaker 2: Hey you doing everybody?
Speaker 6: Oh ceo Tom? How are you this morning?
Speaker 7: As we sound a Cherokee reservation Elsta son a Lee,
Speaker 7: which is good morning.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, we're learning things.
Speaker 6: Did you have a good weekend?
Speaker 2: I sure, I always have a good weekend.
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Speaker 7: it's a great thing that they tune in every week
Speaker 7: to see what we were talking talking about, the events
Speaker 7: that we cover, and the news that we cover. So
Speaker 7: it's an exciting time here in the Cherokee Reservation. One
Speaker 7: of the most significant annual events that we have is
Speaker 7: coming up. It's going to be a Labor Day weekend.
Speaker 7: It's the Cherokee National Holiday. It's going to take place
Speaker 7: in about ten days and some of you make questions, well,
Speaker 7: what is he talking about, Well, the Cherokee National Holiday.
Speaker 7: It's going to be the seventy second annual celebration of
Speaker 7: the signing of the Cherokee Constitution. If you look at
Speaker 7: the Cherokee Seal, in fact, it'll have on the date
Speaker 7: that the Constitution was signed back then it was September sixth,
Speaker 7: eighteen thirty nine. The signing of the Cherokee Constitution is
Speaker 7: one of the most critical events in our history. One
Speaker 7: reason is because the new Constitution was signed less than
Speaker 7: six months after the last contingent of Cherokees were forcibly
Speaker 7: marched over the Trail of Tears of Oklahoma, and so
Speaker 7: once they got here. We actually had a couple of
Speaker 7: factions of Cherokees. We had the old settler Cherokees who
Speaker 7: actually came prior to the removal, and then of course
Speaker 7: we had the Cherokees who were forcibly marked on the
Speaker 7: Trail of Tears. And so there was some disagreement between
Speaker 7: the old settlers, which is what they were called the
Speaker 7: Trail of Tears Cherokees, about you know, how things should
Speaker 7: be run, how they should be governed, and you know,
Speaker 7: the old settlers, I think there were some resentments here
Speaker 7: that while we were here before you guys, and so,
Speaker 7: you know, they felt that they should have says over
Speaker 7: you know, what was going to happen as far as
Speaker 7: the government and things like that. So, sensing the possibility
Speaker 7: of a rift between these different factions the respect to
Speaker 7: the leaders of the old Settlers and the Trail of Tears,
Speaker 7: Cherokees began negotiations to unite just as soon as the
Speaker 7: last Eastern Cherokees arrived. So on July twelfth, eighteen thirty nine,
Speaker 7: a convention was held in the Illinois campground of East
Speaker 7: Italic Law. After a lot of deliberation, a formal active
Speaker 7: union was established and the two groups settled their differences
Speaker 7: and declared themselves to be one body body politic outher
Speaker 7: the title of Cherokee Nation. Chief Ross Going Snake, who
Speaker 7: was the speaker of the Council at the time, signed
Speaker 7: on behalf the Eastern Cherokees of the Ross Party. Principal
Speaker 7: Chief John Looney Sequoya and other old Sailor leaders signed
Speaker 7: for this group. The active union was followed by another
Speaker 7: convension in Tahakua two months later, which led to the
Speaker 7: signing the Constitution of on September sixth, eighteen thirty nine.
Speaker 7: It was essential to survival of Cherokee people the time
Speaker 7: would come together, because if we didn't, it'd be very
Speaker 7: likely that we would have splintered and would have been
Speaker 7: actually spread as a tribe, and we probably would have
Speaker 7: never gained that cohesion that we have now. So that's
Speaker 7: one of the reasons that we celebrated. It formed a
Speaker 7: sustainable form of government. It divided the Cherokee Nation to
Speaker 7: nine districts, which is what we also have well, actually
Speaker 7: about fourteen jurisdictions today, but included the Kui Skoue District,
Speaker 7: which is where we're located. In honor of the Chief
Speaker 7: John Ross kuy Scue was his Cherokee name. I think
Speaker 7: it means little spring bird or something like that. So
Speaker 7: you'll actually see that down in a lot of the buildings.
Speaker 7: In fact, the Cherokee health that are down at Oceleda
Speaker 7: has out on the side of the building. Out of
Speaker 7: this constitution, courts were established, elections were held, and a
Speaker 7: new government began to operate. John Ross consumed to continue
Speaker 7: to serve as the principal chief of the Cherokee Nation.
Speaker 7: Joseph Vann, who was chief of the old Settlers, was
Speaker 7: elected to serve as.
Speaker 6: A deputy chief.
Speaker 7: In eighteen ninety eight, the Curtis Act, instituted by the
Speaker 7: federal government, limited the power of tribal governments Indian territory
Speaker 7: to paved the way for the allotment of tribal lands
Speaker 7: and Oklahoma statehood, which came along in nineteen oh seven.
Speaker 7: I do know that at that time, the Cherokee Nation
Speaker 7: we actually wanted to have our own separate state from Oklahoma.
Speaker 7: It was going to be called the State of Sequoia.
Speaker 7: And Theodore Roosevelt he said, no, we're not going to
Speaker 7: be signing two states into the Union. We're just going
Speaker 7: to focus on one, So that was one of the
Speaker 7: reasons we ended up with the hire State of Oklahoma.
Speaker 7: In October nineteen seventy five, the then Chief Ross Swimmer
Speaker 7: signed a new constitution that superseded the eighteenth thirty nine constitution.
Speaker 7: A constitutional convention was held in Tahlequan February of nineteen
Speaker 7: ninety nine to revise an update the nineteen seventy five constitution.
Speaker 7: The Cherokee Nations operated under the nineteen ninety nine constitutions
Speaker 7: since July of two thousand and six, in fact, it's
Speaker 7: past June.
Speaker 6: We voted on whether we were going to have.
Speaker 7: Another constitutional convention the termin of significant changes need to
Speaker 7: be made to our government. And this was overlywhelmingly rejected
Speaker 7: by the Cherokee people. And the reason is because we
Speaker 7: feel this, as Chief Hosket had said time and time again,
Speaker 7: if it's not broke, don't fix it. You know, everything
Speaker 7: seems to be going pretty well on even keel, and
Speaker 7: so we figured that, well, as we'll keep the government
Speaker 7: we have and keep doing what we're doing. So and
Speaker 7: to celebrate this, like I said, are one of our
Speaker 7: most significant events is the Cherokee National Holiday. It'll be
Speaker 7: taking place August thirtieth, thirty first, and September first, Taalaquaw
Speaker 7: can expect tens of thousands of visitors as we gather
Speaker 7: to celebrate. It reaffirms us Cherokee Nation is a sovereign
Speaker 7: nation and honors the good will of camaraderie and the
Speaker 7: positive relationships we have among the Cherokee people. The theme
Speaker 7: this year of this year's holiday is Weaving Our Future.
Speaker 6: The theme art and.
Speaker 7: Design, the logo We're created by Cherokee National Treasurer and
Speaker 7: renowned artists and Daniel Mink. The themes an important story
Speaker 7: in our culture to the water Spider. The story the
Speaker 7: water Spider has a simple moral. No matter how small,
Speaker 7: every one of the four hundred and fifty thousand members
Speaker 7: of our tribe can have some measurable impact, either on
Speaker 7: the fabric of Cherokee culture or the future generations of
Speaker 7: Cherokees and how they relate to our culture. Even the
Speaker 7: future also refers to the many ways Cherokee cultures interwoven
Speaker 7: into every aspect of our daily lives, whether in big
Speaker 7: or small ways. If you learn the Cherokee language, just
Speaker 7: one way that it's interwoven. If you're taking care of
Speaker 7: an elder, that's another way that it's inner woven. I mean,
Speaker 7: who today doesn't you know, take care of an elder
Speaker 7: at some point. You know, it's just something.
Speaker 2: That we do.
Speaker 7: We step up and you take care of exactly right.
Speaker 7: There are several great events that are going on during
Speaker 7: the holiday, from a parade celebrating the culture to the
Speaker 7: state of the Nation addressed by Chief Hoskin to many
Speaker 7: the artists and vendors, as well as competition as traditional
Speaker 7: games and our inner tribal pow Wow. It's a full
Speaker 7: slate of events that is something for everyone. I encourage
Speaker 7: everyone to make it to tele Quall Labor Day weekend
Speaker 7: and check it out. And that's August thirtieth, thirty first
Speaker 7: and September first. You can find information about the Cherokee
Speaker 7: National Holiday at the Cherokee Holiday dot com website web page.
Speaker 7: From August thirty through September first, this event will have
Speaker 7: community games including a championship, cornstocks, shoot horseshoes, traditional Cherokee marbles.
Speaker 6: Chunky Chunky is.
Speaker 7: An interesting game because you have sort of a stone
Speaker 7: disc and you actually roll along the ground and you
Speaker 7: take a spear and you throw it and whoever lands
Speaker 7: closest to that disc gets a point. And so this
Speaker 7: is actually one of the ways this has been going
Speaker 7: on thousands of years.
Speaker 6: In fact, they've found.
Speaker 7: These oldest scoid little stones from way back and seven
Speaker 7: eight thousand years ago. Soince is a game that's been
Speaker 7: around for quite some time. The only thing is I
Speaker 7: think that back then the stakes were quite a bit
Speaker 7: higher because a lot of times the loser.
Speaker 6: Ended up being put to death.
Speaker 2: So I would wow, we'll talk about competitive spirit.
Speaker 7: That's exactly right. Yeah, that's a little more. That's a
Speaker 7: little too intense for my taste. So blowgun competition that's
Speaker 7: another great one that we have. And hatchet throwing, which
Speaker 7: is huge across our reservation. In fact, we have going
Speaker 7: on rivalries between the Cherokee Cultural Community and Dewey, the
Speaker 7: Washington County Cherokee Association, the Native American Fellowship up in
Speaker 7: South Coalkerville. That's something that we all like to get
Speaker 7: together and do. We give each other a hard time,
Speaker 7: but at the end of the day, it's just something
Speaker 7: fun we like to get together.
Speaker 2: And makes cornhole look kind of chilly.
Speaker 6: It does, doesn't it.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Yeah, And it's interesting to bring that up because
Speaker 7: that's actually another one of the events.
Speaker 6: That we're going to have as a cornhole tournament there.
Speaker 7: Okay, but these particular events will begin on Saturday, August
Speaker 7: twenty fourth, beginning at ten am, and'll we played at
Speaker 7: various venues throughout the day around Tahlequah. And here here's
Speaker 7: the other thing we talked about this earlier. What's a
Speaker 7: holiday without food?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, yeah, So.
Speaker 6: There'll be lots of great food vendors.
Speaker 7: There's also going to be a veterans luncheon on Friday,
Speaker 7: August thirtieth at twelve pm with three admission for info
Speaker 7: on that, you can call it nine one eight seven
Speaker 7: seven to.
Speaker 6: Two four one sixty six. There'll also be a free
Speaker 6: feed to.
Speaker 7: Go on Saturday or on slor on Sunday, September one,
Speaker 7: from twelve to three thirty, as well as food vendors
Speaker 7: at one Firefield the Cultural Grounds where the Inner Tribal
Speaker 7: Powwow takes place, and that begins at seven pm August
Speaker 7: thirtieth and thirty first. There is a thirty five thousand
Speaker 7: dollars prize, actually thirty five thousand dollars in prize money
Speaker 7: that's going to be given out to the Inner tribal Powwow.
Speaker 7: So anyone who's a dancer out there, you want to
Speaker 7: get registered, you want to get signed up for the dance.
Speaker 6: That's a good way to bring home some change in
Speaker 6: your pocket.
Speaker 2: Nice.
Speaker 7: And the other thing that we have is a concert
Speaker 7: series that we have during the holiday every year. And
Speaker 7: I'm always kind of screw up the name, but it's
Speaker 7: a d La La Palooza which will take place the
Speaker 7: evening of August thirtieth and thirty first from six to
Speaker 7: ten pm at one Firefield with musical guests Big Chooje
Speaker 7: Mackie on Friday. In fact, Big Chooge has a local connection.
Speaker 7: His dad, Ryan Mackie, is from Copan and this is
Speaker 7: something I was unaware of until I was talking to
Speaker 7: Big Chewe and I found out his dad was Ryan,
Speaker 7: and I was like, I was floored because I was like,
Speaker 7: I've known Ryan for about forty years.
Speaker 6: I just had never known Big Juje. And he's a.
Speaker 7: Wonderful singer, as sais I told you earlier. You know,
Speaker 7: he's adapted some of the older songs and great covers
Speaker 7: of them. He was there at the opening of the
Speaker 7: Bob Dylan Center, so he's been on NPR. I mean,
Speaker 7: he's really well recognized and respected as an artist and musician.
Speaker 6: So that's going to be a great.
Speaker 7: Concert there, and that's August thirtieth from six to seven pm.
Speaker 7: The Klondike five String Band that night will also appear
Speaker 7: from seven to eight pm, and Sister Soone from eight
Speaker 7: to ten pm Saturday, I'll have Amber Watson and friends
Speaker 7: will be taking the stage from six to seven pm,
Speaker 7: Cody Brewer and last but not least, King Cabbage Brass Band,
Speaker 7: which a lot of people around Tulsa in this area
Speaker 7: know of. They're pretty famous. They're going to be taking
Speaker 7: the stage from eight three to ten pm on Saturday,
Speaker 7: August thirty first. And we can't forget to mention the
Speaker 7: Cherokee Artists in Market, which will be held from August
Speaker 7: thirty first to September first from nine to three pm.
Speaker 7: You can always find great art work there, sculptures, paintings.
Speaker 7: A thing that I like to point out are these
Speaker 7: booger masks. And it sounds kind of a funny, funny
Speaker 7: sounding name of booger masks were actually a masks that
Speaker 7: remain out of gourds and prior to the removal, you
Speaker 7: would have a dance. The night before hunt or the
Speaker 7: night before a warring party went out to another tribe.
Speaker 7: And the cool thing about this is they would wear
Speaker 7: a mask and they would go up and they would
Speaker 7: take certain women from the from the crowd as they
Speaker 7: set around a fire, and they would take them. They
Speaker 7: retreat with them, and it was kind of a warning that,
Speaker 7: you know, you better do well in the battle tomorrow,
Speaker 7: or you better be good at hunting, or you could
Speaker 7: very well lose your wife. You know, she might she
Speaker 7: might move on to greener pastures, or the neighboring tribe
Speaker 7: might adopt her as you know, someone to have to
Speaker 7: have in their tribe.
Speaker 6: So anyway, the that that market is kind of.
Speaker 7: An interesting thing because they will have natives from all
Speaker 7: around the country who like to participate.
Speaker 6: Tribes I have never even heard of, and I know.
Speaker 7: They are about five hundred and thirty eight federally recognized
Speaker 7: tribes in the country. But when we see a plaque
Speaker 7: above there, you're like, where is this tribe from? But
Speaker 7: you know, this is one of those interesting things. There'll
Speaker 7: be softball tournaments, there are three on three basketball tournaments,
Speaker 7: golf tournaments, there's gonna be a double cornament they don't
Speaker 7: call it cornhole, they call it cornament.
Speaker 6: I'd like that too a little bit. Yeah, I heard
Speaker 6: that today.
Speaker 7: And they have a Veterans five k and a fun run,
Speaker 7: and a bass tournament and stickball tournament. There's literally something
Speaker 7: for the entire family. So whatever your interest is, it's
Speaker 7: good to go out there. And we cannot forget to
Speaker 7: mention Chief Hoskin. He'll be presenting the State of the
Speaker 7: Nation address on August thirtieth at eleven am. It's the
Speaker 7: Cherokee National Peace Pavilion. I went to that last year.
Speaker 7: It was well received, and you know, he talks about
Speaker 7: the accomplishments the Cherokee Nation has done in the past
Speaker 7: few years, in the past year or so, but also
Speaker 7: about it, you know, his plans for the future.
Speaker 6: And I think it's always worth a listen. You can
Speaker 6: actually to watch this.
Speaker 7: Address on the Cherokee Nation YouTube channel if you're not
Speaker 7: able to attend.
Speaker 6: But anyway, the like I said, this event.
Speaker 7: Goes on August thirtieth, thirtieth and September first, and before
Speaker 7: we go today have a few announcements. We don't want
Speaker 7: to forget to check out our Cherokee Facebook pages for
Speaker 7: the latest events, news and meetings Cherokee, Washington County Cherokee
Speaker 7: are I'm sorry, the Washington County Cherokee Association, the Cherokee
Speaker 7: Cultural Community in Dewey know we the Cherokee Community Foundation,
Speaker 7: and the Native American Fellowship in South Coffeeville. I encourage everyone,
Speaker 7: whether you're Cherokee or not, to find a community and
Speaker 7: get involved. As with many of these organizations, what we're
Speaker 7: seeing is the membership is aging out and we really
Speaker 7: need younger people to set up up and take over.
Speaker 7: And you know, we want to be able to preserve
Speaker 7: our culture, our language, our history, and that's one of
Speaker 7: the best ways to do it. Also, we want to
Speaker 7: make sure that you know of the Cherokee Nation Career
Speaker 7: Services Office. It's located seven hundred East Durham, which is
Speaker 7: at the Cherokee Cultural Community Building. It's actually had been
Speaker 7: closed for a while, but it's open to run again.
Speaker 7: The Cherokee County Cherokee Association will be connecting a traditional
Speaker 7: skills flint napping class on the evening of August twenty
Speaker 7: seven at six pm.
Speaker 6: We'd love to see you there.
Speaker 7: We're at one of our regular monthly meetings the first
Speaker 7: Thursday of each month at six pm. Our next potlock
Speaker 7: will be having Cherokee National Treasure and Traditional Weapons expert
Speaker 7: Danny McCarter, who specializes in conventional blowguns of blowgun darts
Speaker 7: relocated just east of the Kuiskui Health Center and once
Speaker 7: again in that meeting will be September fifth at six pm. Also,
Speaker 7: be sure to catch our friends Chris Crane and Amy
Speaker 7: Dollar and their first show, Frybred Journeys on the mighty
Speaker 7: six to ninety KGGF. Check out their Facebook page, and
Speaker 7: be sure to check out our show Native Beat, either
Speaker 7: live on KWN, the Barswell Radio Facebook page, or the
Speaker 7: demand on demand to the Barswell Radio app on the
Speaker 7: Apple Store. A big wadoe, as we say in Cherokee,
Speaker 7: one ah is the Delaware would say, WONSI is the
Speaker 7: stage would say. But for all, for now, what I'm
Speaker 7: going to say to you is Doda de goha E
Speaker 7: until we meet again.
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