Speaker 1: The chief has talked about the housing crisis that we
Speaker 1: have in the Cherokee Reservation. They said, you know, we're
Speaker 1: not waiting around for the federal government to come and
Speaker 1: rescue us. Where Cherokees we out front and center. You
Speaker 1: do the hard work, and we are building communities and
Speaker 1: homes for people so I'll have a place to live.
Speaker 1: And I think that's you know, that's what And I
Speaker 1: know that he's was the Sustainable Housing Act that I
Speaker 1: think he's dedicated forty million dollars every three years to
Speaker 1: the effort of building more homes for Cherokee citizens. Well.
Speaker 2: As a realtor, for many, many years, I've been involved
Speaker 2: in housing and selling housing and trying to find people housing.
Speaker 2: And last few years I've been involved in building houses
Speaker 2: down in Katusa, which is Cherokee Nation, right where the
Speaker 2: hard rock is, and at one point there were a
Speaker 2: thousand people down there homeless. I'm drive by every day
Speaker 2: and it was just heartbreaking. I show property all over
Speaker 2: the Tulsa metro area in northeast Oklahoma, and it is everywhere.
Speaker 2: It is a crisis. It's been on the surface for
Speaker 2: quite a long time. I'm saying, we've just got to
Speaker 2: go out there and embrace every entity that we can
Speaker 2: get working together to keep people off the street. We
Speaker 2: cannot have our Cherokee families out on the street not
Speaker 2: able to take care of their We don't want.
Speaker 1: To see any families out on the street.
Speaker 2: Have to make sure they have a place to live,
Speaker 2: they have food, they have a job. We've all got
Speaker 2: to step up and work together, and we need to
Speaker 2: step up now and do it. We can't wait.
Speaker 1: Well, Betsy, I want to thank you for appearing on
Speaker 1: Native Bat. That's been wonderful to have you. What do
Speaker 1: you see on the horizon now for the any Women's Club.
Speaker 2: Well, our club is getting recognition all over. I see
Speaker 2: them being lead in our community, but also internationally. We'll
Speaker 2: be getting recognition March the eighth, which is international Weomenn'sday.
Speaker 2: So I think they are continuing to grow and they'll
Speaker 2: survive and be leaders forever.
Speaker 1: Exactly. Yeah. Well, before we go and make a couple
Speaker 1: of announcements, the Washington kint of Cherokee Association will have
Speaker 1: its November meeting. Let's see this November is going to
Speaker 1: be a November seventh. It's going to be a six pm.
Speaker 1: We're located just to the east of the Kuskube Health Clinic.
Speaker 1: We're going to have Daniel Harris of sud Navi and
Speaker 1: Research Center there to talk about the all Egle revitalization efforts.
Speaker 1: We're also offering free Cherokee language courses there every Saturday
Speaker 1: from ten to noon. November fourteenth, at six pm, the
Speaker 1: Naffi Native American Fellowship Community in South Konghoo will having
Speaker 1: a combination District eleven and twelve community meeting that's going
Speaker 1: to be at six pm once again at their location.
Speaker 1: The Cherokee Cultural Community in Dewey at seven hundre at
Speaker 1: East Durham Road. We'll be having its monthly potluck meeting
Speaker 1: on November twenty first at six pm with a presentation
Speaker 1: by the Operation Eagle Dancers. We would also make sure
Speaker 1: that you catch our friend Chris Crane our Fribrid journeys
Speaker 1: in the mighty six ninety KGGF. Be sure to check
Speaker 1: out our Facebook page and tune in to catch the
Speaker 1: next edition of Native Beat. November eighteenth and nine forty
Speaker 1: five in the morning. You can catch Native Beat on
Speaker 1: the Barzil Radio Facebook page. You're on demand to the
Speaker 1: barzel Radio app, available on the Apple Store the Big Wado,
Speaker 1: as we say in Cherokee, Wado. To you, Betsy Swimmer,
Speaker 1: Wanishi is the Delaware, would say, Wanzi is the Osage
Speaker 1: would say, And to all of you listening, do to
Speaker 1: do goganha e, until we meet again.