WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.440 --> 00:00:02.799 Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome me. 2 00:00:02.799 --> 00:00:05.480 It is time now for Native Beach right here on 3 00:00:05.599 --> 00:00:08.119 K one, the one you trust, nine forty five on 4 00:00:08.199 --> 00:00:08.560 the dot. 5 00:00:08.640 --> 00:00:10.199 Hey, how's it going, John Weston? 6 00:00:10.640 --> 00:00:13.800 Great Tom o cion Niganta. Hello everyone, Osta suna lei, 7 00:00:13.960 --> 00:00:15.720 good morning and happy Monday, or as we like to 8 00:00:15.720 --> 00:00:19.719 say in Cherokee Nation, dog claw not see as always. Tom. 9 00:00:19.800 --> 00:00:21.160 It's good to see you. And I was asking you 10 00:00:21.199 --> 00:00:23.640 before the show today, are you ready for Snowmageddon? 11 00:00:24.000 --> 00:00:24.519 No, I'm not. 12 00:00:24.800 --> 00:00:26.519 By the way, how do you how do you say 13 00:00:26.600 --> 00:00:28.440 get your snow shoes in Cherokee? 14 00:00:28.719 --> 00:00:30.679 I don't know. Well, really, I'm gonna I'm gonna have 15 00:00:30.760 --> 00:00:32.479 to look that up, really, because I think we might 16 00:00:32.759 --> 00:00:34.359 be having to break those out here pretty soon. 17 00:00:34.359 --> 00:00:35.719 We got to do that phone or front and call 18 00:00:35.840 --> 00:00:36.640 chief exactly. 19 00:00:36.799 --> 00:00:39.000 Yeah. Yeah, So you stocked up on bread, milk, and 20 00:00:39.000 --> 00:00:41.079 toilet paper because those are the usually a three staples 21 00:00:41.079 --> 00:00:41.439 over one. 22 00:00:41.640 --> 00:00:42.119 Yeah. 23 00:00:42.359 --> 00:00:43.840 I hate to see what Walmart's going to be like 24 00:00:43.920 --> 00:00:44.679 later on the day. 25 00:00:44.799 --> 00:00:47.759 It's crazy enough Friday when this came out, I know, right, 26 00:00:48.079 --> 00:00:50.000 and the shelves I think are going to be bear. 27 00:00:49.880 --> 00:00:52.920 By the time this evening ends. Oh yeah, but I 28 00:00:53.000 --> 00:00:55.880 was monitoring the computer models for predictions. I've just been 29 00:00:55.920 --> 00:00:58.280 monitoring the weather app for a while and I've read 30 00:00:58.320 --> 00:01:01.479 everything from seven inches to thirteen inches and we're gonna 31 00:01:01.600 --> 00:01:04.359 the next day have three to four inches maybe, and 32 00:01:04.359 --> 00:01:06.159 and I mean it's the computer models. 33 00:01:05.840 --> 00:01:07.599 Are just going crazy all over the place. 34 00:01:07.680 --> 00:01:11.560 Yeah, like popcorn exactly. And that's that's Oklahoma for Yeah, 35 00:01:11.560 --> 00:01:13.040 what was it? Will Rogers said, if you don't like 36 00:01:13.040 --> 00:01:15.439 the weather, just stick around a little while, it'll change. Yeah. 37 00:01:15.480 --> 00:01:17.920 That's yeah. If we could throw a tornado and an 38 00:01:17.959 --> 00:01:19.439 earthquake in there somewhere. 39 00:01:19.079 --> 00:01:23.120 You got it would be It's quite essential Oklahoma, Oklahoma exactly. 40 00:01:23.599 --> 00:01:25.400 But I think most people live here when it comes 41 00:01:25.400 --> 00:01:27.519 to the weather, they're pretty skeptical. I know I am. 42 00:01:27.560 --> 00:01:29.400 I I generally don't even look at the weather app 43 00:01:29.480 --> 00:01:31.319 until it's like maybe a couple of days out because 44 00:01:31.359 --> 00:01:33.359 I know it's gonna change, just kind of. 45 00:01:33.319 --> 00:01:36.680 All over like a. 46 00:01:35.680 --> 00:01:37.200 Yeah, it's kind of one of those things. I'll believe 47 00:01:37.239 --> 00:01:38.959 it when I see it, but I am preparing for 48 00:01:39.000 --> 00:01:39.400 the worst. 49 00:01:39.519 --> 00:01:42.000 I was a TV weather man for many, many years, 50 00:01:42.439 --> 00:01:43.560 and I'll tell you why. 51 00:01:45.000 --> 00:01:47.680 I couldn't do what they do at New Sun Sick exactly. 52 00:01:47.959 --> 00:01:50.840 I mean it was batten up in central Illinois. Yeah, 53 00:01:51.040 --> 00:01:54.879 I couldn't do it there. I couldn't do it here exactly. 54 00:01:55.000 --> 00:01:56.319 And I think the best place is to be a 55 00:01:56.359 --> 00:01:58.920 weather man would be either be Florida or California. It 56 00:01:59.000 --> 00:02:01.159 was really easy. Yeah, exactly. 57 00:02:01.560 --> 00:02:06.200 I have eight of afternoon shower that's exactly every day 58 00:02:06.359 --> 00:02:09.360 day killed a hurricanes exactly, right. 59 00:02:09.840 --> 00:02:12.560 But Happy President's Day to everyone that's today. I want 60 00:02:12.599 --> 00:02:16.199 to mention that this past Saturday, I attended a little 61 00:02:16.199 --> 00:02:18.599 training session we had through the Cherokee Nation Community and 62 00:02:18.599 --> 00:02:22.639 Cultural Outreach Department and whatever community building is in Hulbert. 63 00:02:23.120 --> 00:02:25.400 If you don't know what where Hulbert is. It's down 64 00:02:25.479 --> 00:02:28.639 a near Tahlequah and it's one of our great rural communities, 65 00:02:29.159 --> 00:02:31.800 probably best known for being the home of millionaire bull 66 00:02:31.840 --> 00:02:34.800 rider Ryan Dirt Eater. And you know you've got to 67 00:02:34.840 --> 00:02:36.960 be pretty darn good at being a bull rider if 68 00:02:36.960 --> 00:02:40.199 you're if you've made over a million dollars, yes, yeah 69 00:02:40.240 --> 00:02:43.159 he has. So we have a wonderful Cherokee community there 70 00:02:43.199 --> 00:02:45.680 as well as a beautiful community building. They've got a 71 00:02:45.719 --> 00:02:48.080 storm shelter that can hold up to a couple hundred people. 72 00:02:48.080 --> 00:02:49.800 I've kind of taken a little tour of that at 73 00:02:49.840 --> 00:02:51.919 an underground billy exactly it is. 74 00:02:52.080 --> 00:02:52.319 It is. 75 00:02:52.439 --> 00:02:54.240 It's actually above ground. It's supposed to be able to 76 00:02:54.240 --> 00:02:57.520 take a direct impact. Oh yeah, so that's that's what's 77 00:02:57.560 --> 00:03:00.400 really neat about it. But and we also right next 78 00:03:00.400 --> 00:03:02.960 to the campus, we have housing for Native speakers and 79 00:03:02.960 --> 00:03:05.439 elders who live there, which is great because you know, 80 00:03:05.479 --> 00:03:06.960 it's just one of those things that's kind of all 81 00:03:07.360 --> 00:03:10.000 this whole idea of building community. You know, if we 82 00:03:10.039 --> 00:03:12.000 build these community buildings and then if we can build 83 00:03:12.000 --> 00:03:14.639 housing right next to it, it just kind of acts 84 00:03:14.680 --> 00:03:17.199 as a hub for community activity. So I think it's 85 00:03:17.240 --> 00:03:20.080 a great setup. But we had a couple of training sessions. 86 00:03:20.400 --> 00:03:24.719 One was on computer basics, which some people you still need. 87 00:03:24.800 --> 00:03:26.919 And you know, and then even I, you know, as 88 00:03:26.960 --> 00:03:29.840 I get older, I start to lose track of some technology, 89 00:03:29.960 --> 00:03:32.439 you know, and I might be talking to a little 90 00:03:32.639 --> 00:03:37.199 Gen xer or Gen Alpha or whoever kid. Basically, in 91 00:03:37.240 --> 00:03:40.400 my opinion, I'm nearly fifty years old, so anyone that's 92 00:03:40.439 --> 00:03:42.520 you in their twenties is considered a kid now. Yeah, 93 00:03:42.759 --> 00:03:45.120 so yeah, and they might mention something to me and 94 00:03:45.159 --> 00:03:46.960 I'm like, wow, I had not heard of that. So 95 00:03:47.000 --> 00:03:49.080 it's one of those things that's everyone can brush up 96 00:03:49.080 --> 00:03:50.639 on it. And that was one of the great things 97 00:03:50.639 --> 00:03:52.400 about this meeting was that kind of covered some of 98 00:03:52.400 --> 00:03:55.599 that stuff and board governance, which you know, it's not 99 00:03:55.639 --> 00:03:57.919 apparent to some people how important the board is for 100 00:03:57.960 --> 00:04:01.159 a community and how they establish an agenda and make 101 00:04:02.080 --> 00:04:03.960 and kind of move the community of the direction that 102 00:04:04.000 --> 00:04:05.840 needs to go, you know, because your board is your 103 00:04:05.960 --> 00:04:08.240 leadership and it really needs to be an active and 104 00:04:08.319 --> 00:04:10.680 engage board to make sure that you can get things 105 00:04:10.719 --> 00:04:13.680 accomplished for your community that you want accomplished. But I 106 00:04:13.719 --> 00:04:15.960 always think it's great to see the investments Cherokey Nation 107 00:04:16.040 --> 00:04:19.560 and CEO put into these buildings and making our community stronger. 108 00:04:19.639 --> 00:04:22.199 It's just amazing because I know the chief is really 109 00:04:22.199 --> 00:04:25.040 dedicated to it, you know, and these trending sessions are 110 00:04:25.040 --> 00:04:27.560 one way that they do that. Turnout for this event 111 00:04:27.759 --> 00:04:29.959 was just spectacular. It's probably the largest we had in 112 00:04:30.040 --> 00:04:33.040 cco's history of hosting these, and I know everyone learned 113 00:04:33.040 --> 00:04:34.839 a lot, but we had a great time getting together. 114 00:04:34.839 --> 00:04:36.879 We always do with these communities. You start to know 115 00:04:36.959 --> 00:04:39.560 these folks, you go into these meetings and you see 116 00:04:39.560 --> 00:04:41.839 the same faces over and over again, and you become 117 00:04:41.839 --> 00:04:43.879 familiar with their communities, and then before you know it, 118 00:04:43.879 --> 00:04:46.839 you start building these relationships and these friendships that are 119 00:04:46.839 --> 00:04:48.639 going to last. And it really does mean a lot 120 00:04:48.920 --> 00:04:51.639 to go to these So before we begin today's show, 121 00:04:51.720 --> 00:04:54.800 I'd like to think our sponsor, as always, Coffeell Cooperative 122 00:04:54.800 --> 00:04:58.040 Credit Union. What can I say about CCCU. 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And I just always love 161 00:06:38.160 --> 00:06:40.240 running into these folks that know they are actually people 162 00:06:40.240 --> 00:06:42.680 out there listening and listening to K one, which is great. 163 00:06:42.759 --> 00:06:44.839 You know, I always listening to K one, especially when 164 00:06:44.839 --> 00:06:47.279 it comes time for weather reports. You know, I know 165 00:06:47.319 --> 00:06:49.319 the last tornado we had, I was glued to this 166 00:06:49.439 --> 00:06:52.040 radio station and heard that you guys are all going 167 00:06:52.079 --> 00:06:53.800 to the basement, and I thought to myself, you know, 168 00:06:53.839 --> 00:06:55.759 it might be time to take cover. If people at 169 00:06:55.800 --> 00:06:57.560 the radio station are going to the basement, I think 170 00:06:57.560 --> 00:07:02.560 it's time I go take cover too. It's quite a trick, yeah, exactly. So, 171 00:07:02.600 --> 00:07:04.079 as I mentioned at the top of the show, we're 172 00:07:04.120 --> 00:07:06.639 facing snow mcgeddon or the snow apocalypse. I'm sure as 173 00:07:06.639 --> 00:07:09.160 people will start calling it. But that really got me 174 00:07:09.199 --> 00:07:11.639 to thinking, you know, what were some of the ways 175 00:07:11.639 --> 00:07:14.839 that our native cultures could predict the weather or whether 176 00:07:14.920 --> 00:07:16.439 or not we were going to have a harsh winter. 177 00:07:17.199 --> 00:07:19.480 So I did a little research on it, and what's 178 00:07:19.560 --> 00:07:22.839 really interesting is there were some scientists, I'm sure there 179 00:07:22.839 --> 00:07:27.000 were anthropology students. They actually wrote a paper about this 180 00:07:27.160 --> 00:07:29.639 very topic, and I was really surprised because one of 181 00:07:29.680 --> 00:07:34.120 the sources they used was Senator Robert Kerr, because in 182 00:07:34.199 --> 00:07:38.079 nineteen fifty he sent out letters to Native leaders and said, 183 00:07:38.360 --> 00:07:40.439 how do you guys predict whether or not we're going 184 00:07:40.480 --> 00:07:44.879 to have a marsh? Exactly right? Yeah. So Senator Robert Kerr, 185 00:07:45.120 --> 00:07:48.399 he's perhaps one of Oklahoma's most famous senators. He is 186 00:07:48.439 --> 00:07:52.120 an extremely influential Oklahoma and oil Oklahoma oil man, and 187 00:07:52.160 --> 00:07:54.079 like I said, nineteen fifty sent out these letters to 188 00:07:54.160 --> 00:07:58.199 Native leaders across the nation, challenging them with this he said, 189 00:07:58.199 --> 00:08:00.639 make some determination with regard to whether or not we 190 00:08:00.680 --> 00:08:02.959 are going to have an early winter and whether or 191 00:08:02.959 --> 00:08:06.279 not we may expect a hard winter. So Senator Kerr, 192 00:08:06.319 --> 00:08:07.959 like I said, it was an interesting figure in his 193 00:08:08.000 --> 00:08:10.240 own right. He was born in a log cabin in 194 00:08:10.279 --> 00:08:13.839 eighteen ninety six in Ponatac County, which is the Chickasaw Nation. 195 00:08:14.360 --> 00:08:17.600 He was elected governor twice and senator three times, and 196 00:08:17.639 --> 00:08:20.120 he was the first governor of Oklahoma who was actually 197 00:08:20.160 --> 00:08:22.519 born here in Oklahoma territory. So I thought that was 198 00:08:22.560 --> 00:08:24.920 kind of a neat little fact about him. But anyway, 199 00:08:24.959 --> 00:08:27.800 he helped usher in space exploration. As a Senator, he 200 00:08:27.839 --> 00:08:30.720 pushed through legislation to found the Marshall Space Flight Center 201 00:08:30.720 --> 00:08:34.600 in nineteen sixty one. In fact, Werner Braun Braun, who 202 00:08:34.639 --> 00:08:37.600 was head of our American rocket program, to help get 203 00:08:37.600 --> 00:08:40.559 the Saturn five rockets that went to the Moon. He 204 00:08:40.639 --> 00:08:43.399 actually broke brown with him at that space Flight Center, 205 00:08:43.399 --> 00:08:45.559 which I thought was just an amazing picture, which I 206 00:08:45.639 --> 00:08:48.720 just think that's really cool. But Oklahoma has some impact 207 00:08:48.759 --> 00:08:51.840 on the space program, you know, and I just think 208 00:08:51.840 --> 00:08:54.600 that's really neat. But of course he was also associated 209 00:08:54.639 --> 00:08:57.039 with the projects like the Kerr McClellan dam, you know, 210 00:08:57.080 --> 00:09:00.000 which we all know about. You drive across Oklahoma, you 211 00:09:00.039 --> 00:09:03.200 you're gonnactually run into something named Kerr. So anyway, he 212 00:09:03.240 --> 00:09:06.000 had a very interesting life and career, very successful and 213 00:09:06.039 --> 00:09:09.440 given his personal and professional successes, though, one of the 214 00:09:09.519 --> 00:09:11.919 things I found interesting was that he still held high 215 00:09:11.960 --> 00:09:15.159 regard for Native cultures and traditions, you know. And it's 216 00:09:15.240 --> 00:09:17.360 kind of interesting. I feel like sometimes I'm coming in 217 00:09:17.399 --> 00:09:20.080 that same mode because i feel like I've got one 218 00:09:20.080 --> 00:09:23.840 foot in the old traditional world of Native customs and 219 00:09:23.840 --> 00:09:26.679 cultures and trying to understand our traditions and carry them on. 220 00:09:27.159 --> 00:09:29.080 But ye, at the same time, I have a degree 221 00:09:29.080 --> 00:09:33.159 in molecular biology of analyzed DNA. I have isolated proteins, 222 00:09:33.200 --> 00:09:38.600 done protein essays, you know, Western blot interactions, things like that. 223 00:09:38.679 --> 00:09:40.799 And so it's like I very much have a foot 224 00:09:40.840 --> 00:09:43.000 in both the modern world and the traditional world. 225 00:09:43.039 --> 00:09:44.840 And not really a bad place to be. 226 00:09:44.919 --> 00:09:47.559 It really isn't you know. And like I said, he 227 00:09:47.919 --> 00:09:50.440 had a high regard and he called it this for 228 00:09:50.559 --> 00:09:53.000 old Indian ways and determining such things as the weather, 229 00:09:53.120 --> 00:09:55.840 because they're practical and have always been able to make 230 00:09:55.879 --> 00:09:59.120 some very accurate predictions. And it's like, I think that's 231 00:09:59.159 --> 00:10:01.519 a very smart thing. I know, a lot of the 232 00:10:01.559 --> 00:10:03.879 predictions are based on empirical evidence, you know, it's just 233 00:10:03.919 --> 00:10:06.919 what you observe. But some of the responses he got 234 00:10:06.919 --> 00:10:09.080 back from native leaders after sending out his letter to 235 00:10:09.120 --> 00:10:11.720 them in nineteen fifty asked for predictions of the winter, 236 00:10:11.759 --> 00:10:13.679 and they were very interesting. In fact, one was the 237 00:10:13.759 --> 00:10:17.159 chief of the Muscogee Creek Nation. He responded back, when 238 00:10:17.200 --> 00:10:20.360 lots of spiderwebs are in the air, and lots of 239 00:10:20.480 --> 00:10:22.840 trees such as we see now, it means we still 240 00:10:22.840 --> 00:10:26.240 have a hard cold winter. Also, when the cornshuck is 241 00:10:26.279 --> 00:10:28.679 thick and heavy as it is here in Oklahoma, it's 242 00:10:28.720 --> 00:10:31.120 a sign of a hard cold winter. So you know, 243 00:10:31.159 --> 00:10:35.559 it's just observing nature, observing animals, observing insects, I guess, 244 00:10:35.639 --> 00:10:38.200 you know. And I was I felt like I was 245 00:10:38.519 --> 00:10:40.320 been a little teased that spring was going to be 246 00:10:40.360 --> 00:10:43.200 around the corner because i was walking through the yard 247 00:10:43.240 --> 00:10:45.159 the other day and I'm starting to see the daffodils 248 00:10:45.440 --> 00:10:48.480 peak above the ground, and I'm like, I can feel it. Spring, 249 00:10:48.759 --> 00:10:52.240 It's almost here. Warmer weather is almost here, so hold on, 250 00:10:52.399 --> 00:10:57.200 you know. So the puebl Indians they actually responded back 251 00:10:57.240 --> 00:11:00.200 from Mexico and they said, whereever there is any out 252 00:11:00.200 --> 00:11:03.879 of drought before winter, the usually a hard winter will 253 00:11:03.879 --> 00:11:06.279 follow us. That's kind of how they predicted it. I know. 254 00:11:06.360 --> 00:11:09.720 The Lakota Sue would actually look at the colouration of 255 00:11:09.759 --> 00:11:12.639 the sky, and of course, you know, like in Oklahoma, 256 00:11:13.039 --> 00:11:15.919 when you see a tornadic weather or severe weather coming, 257 00:11:16.240 --> 00:11:19.000 those are the sky has an odd orange or a green, 258 00:11:19.200 --> 00:11:22.039 eerie glow to it, you know, And I've noticed that before. 259 00:11:22.120 --> 00:11:23.879 But it's you know, it's just one of those things. 260 00:11:23.879 --> 00:11:26.559 It's just look with your eyes, you know, and also 261 00:11:26.600 --> 00:11:29.679 observe the animals, you know, growing up, I grew up 262 00:11:29.679 --> 00:11:31.559 on a ranch and we always knew what it was 263 00:11:31.559 --> 00:11:34.799 going to rain because of the cattle. They exactly the 264 00:11:35.039 --> 00:11:36.799 one direction. A lot of times they would gather up 265 00:11:36.840 --> 00:11:37.759 near the fence line. 266 00:11:38.240 --> 00:11:40.679 You know what they call that when they start lining 267 00:11:40.799 --> 00:11:41.279 up like that? 268 00:11:41.399 --> 00:11:41.799 What's that? 269 00:11:41.840 --> 00:11:43.919 The early bovine warning system. 270 00:11:43.559 --> 00:11:45.559 The early bowvine warning system. That's good. I'm gonna have 271 00:11:45.600 --> 00:11:47.559 to use that one. Yeah. I'll be driving out there 272 00:11:47.559 --> 00:11:49.360 and I'll see that. I'll be like, hey, early bovine 273 00:11:49.360 --> 00:11:53.919 warning system. Yeah yeah, but yeah, the the crow Indians 274 00:11:54.360 --> 00:11:57.399 which were up in Montana. There was a seventy year 275 00:11:57.399 --> 00:11:59.720 old up there named Sidney black Hair, and he learned 276 00:11:59.720 --> 00:12:02.240 a four cast from his father, who is a crow chieftain. 277 00:12:02.600 --> 00:12:05.600 And mister black Hair predicted a mild winter for southeast 278 00:12:05.200 --> 00:12:08.840 Montana and northern Wyoming based on observations such as the 279 00:12:08.879 --> 00:12:13.440 occurrence of early Midsummer snowfall, frequent rains during the fall, 280 00:12:13.799 --> 00:12:16.080 ants not having gone into the ground yet, which I 281 00:12:16.120 --> 00:12:18.840 mean if the insects they're going to freeze, they know 282 00:12:18.960 --> 00:12:23.000 to go below ground. So I mean, just observe in 283 00:12:23.080 --> 00:12:25.919 your environment, it tells you everything. Also, snake still being 284 00:12:25.960 --> 00:12:28.559 out and the absence of frogs. You know, of course 285 00:12:28.600 --> 00:12:31.080 frogs they're going to freeze if those ponds did below 286 00:12:31.120 --> 00:12:33.639 a certain temperature, so yeah, they're gonna burrow below ground. 287 00:12:33.720 --> 00:12:37.840 But the Minnesota Chippewa tribe responded by saying that we're 288 00:12:37.840 --> 00:12:39.960 looking forward with dis may to a long and hard winter, 289 00:12:40.320 --> 00:12:42.519 and the signs for forecasting outlook for the coming winter 290 00:12:42.559 --> 00:12:45.759 included if the muskrat or the beaver build an unusually 291 00:12:45.879 --> 00:12:49.000 high and large house, the winter will be severe. Other 292 00:12:49.039 --> 00:12:50.960 signs of a hard winter for them included if the 293 00:12:51.000 --> 00:12:54.080 fur of wild animals is unusually thick, if the bark 294 00:12:54.120 --> 00:12:56.399 of the tree is thicker, and if the field corn 295 00:12:56.519 --> 00:12:58.799 is heavily covered with shell. You know, because it's kind 296 00:12:58.799 --> 00:13:02.559 to predict itself. So those are all sort of interesting observations. 297 00:13:02.919 --> 00:13:04.840 One of the things that we don't overseee which they 298 00:13:04.840 --> 00:13:08.440 see out in Scottsdale, Arizona, was the heal monster they 299 00:13:08.440 --> 00:13:11.360 had out there was brilliantly colored, and they said that 300 00:13:11.360 --> 00:13:15.159 that was a sign from Americopa Indian girl who lived 301 00:13:15.200 --> 00:13:17.679 on the salt or A river reservation, that it pretends 302 00:13:17.679 --> 00:13:19.480 a long and very cold winter. So I don't know 303 00:13:19.519 --> 00:13:22.120 if there's any truth to that, but the coloration might 304 00:13:22.240 --> 00:13:24.240 have something to do with it. So I just thought 305 00:13:24.279 --> 00:13:28.120 that was a very interesting thing that she noted. Well. Anyway, 306 00:13:29.360 --> 00:13:31.840 as you can see, there's a lot of reliance and observation. 307 00:13:31.960 --> 00:13:35.240 Observe the sky, observe animals, and observe vegetation, and those 308 00:13:35.240 --> 00:13:37.639 are some of the best indicators. And I think technology 309 00:13:37.679 --> 00:13:39.399 is great just as long as we don't lose our 310 00:13:39.399 --> 00:13:42.480 traditional ways or our humanity and the process, you know, 311 00:13:42.519 --> 00:13:44.320 And I know that some people are kind of afraid 312 00:13:44.320 --> 00:13:46.639 with AI when it comes to that. So here in 313 00:13:46.679 --> 00:13:48.759 Washington County, we've been very busy to our community building. 314 00:13:48.799 --> 00:13:51.799 We're looking forward to having our renovations completed at WCCA. 315 00:13:52.320 --> 00:13:54.399 A couple of saturdays ago, we began the process of 316 00:13:54.440 --> 00:13:56.960 distributing meat from the eighteen thirty nine cheroy Meat Company 317 00:13:56.960 --> 00:13:59.960 through our new food Sovereignty program. And just to be clear, 318 00:14:00.080 --> 00:14:02.240 here are a few requirements for being served by their program. 319 00:14:02.279 --> 00:14:04.720 You must be a Cherokee tribal member, live within the 320 00:14:04.799 --> 00:14:08.799 Cherokee Reservation and that's the fourteen kind of jurisdictional boundaries, 321 00:14:09.120 --> 00:14:12.639 and not be receiving snap benefits or commodities, and we 322 00:14:12.679 --> 00:14:16.759 have preference for elders, veterans, Cherokee speakers, but also families 323 00:14:16.759 --> 00:14:18.879 who need of assistance, but those who are not receiving 324 00:14:18.919 --> 00:14:22.879 SNAP benefits or or Indian commodities. So anyway, before we 325 00:14:22.960 --> 00:14:24.600 leave today, I just want to mention that those who 326 00:14:24.600 --> 00:14:27.440 are interested in participating participating in the program can reach 327 00:14:27.440 --> 00:14:30.279 me at WCCA pres at gmail dot com. And I 328 00:14:30.320 --> 00:14:32.519 want to say, if you don't have a Cherokee community, 329 00:14:32.559 --> 00:14:35.120 go ahead and find one. We have several Facebook pages 330 00:14:35.120 --> 00:14:37.399 you can follow. Also, to be sure to check out 331 00:14:37.440 --> 00:14:40.480 Fibred Journeys on the mighty six ninety KGGF. You can 332 00:14:40.519 --> 00:14:43.000 catch Native Beat on the Barcel Radio Facebook page or 333 00:14:43.000 --> 00:14:44.960 on demand to the Barssel Radio app available in the 334 00:14:44.960 --> 00:14:47.679 Apple Store. A big wadu, as we say in Cherokee, 335 00:14:47.759 --> 00:14:50.720 wanishe is, the Delaware would say, wanzi is the Osage 336 00:14:50.720 --> 00:14:53.200 would say. And to all of you listening, do to 337 00:14:53.200 --> 00:14:55.200 to goha e until we meet again.