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Speaker 2: Tom Osio Nagata, Hello everyone, Osta son Ala, good morning,
Speaker 2: and happy Wednesday, as we say in Cherokee. She and
Speaker 2: a ega. Today I'm enjoined by someone well known throughout
Speaker 2: the Cherokee Reservation and someone who I consider a dear friend,
Speaker 2: Chris Crane. Chris is the host of Friedbred Journeys at
Speaker 2: our sister station in Coffeeville, the mighty sixth ninety KGGF.
Speaker 2: In addition to that, Chris is the secretary of Native
Speaker 2: American Fellowship, one of our Native communities in South Coffeeville,
Speaker 2: of which I'm a proud member, and she's the office
Speaker 2: manager through Cherokee Nation for the Goodoogi Core program based there.
Speaker 2: Chris and I met a couple of years ago when
Speaker 2: I was a regional film director for the Hoskin Warner
Speaker 2: reelection campaign. She was one of my field organizers, and
Speaker 2: in spite of that, we remain friends. So she's someone
Speaker 2: who wears many hats, and we're happy to have her
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Speaker 2: continued support and tuning in. Chris, how are you this morning?
Speaker 3: I'm okay, great, pretty drive over from Coville. Yeah, absolutely
Speaker 3: nice and chili and nippy outside.
Speaker 4: It's like kind of like fall weather.
Speaker 2: Fall is definitely here. In fact, I was just not
Speaker 2: putting up my Christmas lights this past weekend. Oh really
Speaker 2: in shorts because it agrees that day and I thought,
Speaker 2: I'm going to get it done before it gets really cold,
Speaker 2: and I'm out here freezing trying to hang up these lights.
Speaker 3: Actually, Tom and I were talking beforehand about Christmas decorations
Speaker 3: out here in the station, how pretty the office looks.
Speaker 3: And I've been doing a little different this year. I've
Speaker 3: been just cleaning everything out and putting things away, So
Speaker 3: it's kind of very bare in my living and dining
Speaker 3: room right now. And then this weekend we will then
Speaker 3: begins the decorations.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, our house is already decked out. It was decked
Speaker 2: out like two weeks ago, so good for you. And
Speaker 2: I didn't do it. Don't give me credit for it.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm just having the better half. Well not
Speaker 2: even that. It's actually my granddaughter's mother, Okay, she likes
Speaker 2: to decorate.
Speaker 4: So she that's fantastic.
Speaker 2: Five Christmas trees up.
Speaker 4: In the house.
Speaker 2: You have a Christmas for us. That's exactly right. We
Speaker 2: want a little bit of Christmas in every room.
Speaker 1: There you go.
Speaker 2: So, as I mentioned in the intro, you wear mini hats. Right. So,
Speaker 2: something fairly recently you've become involved in is the Cherokee
Speaker 2: Nation Goodoogie Corp Program. Yes, uh, those they listen listening,
Speaker 2: they may wonder, you know what is this word goodoogie?
Speaker 2: It's something that we talk about a lot in Cherokee Nation,
Speaker 2: and good Doogie is a cultural concept that is really
Speaker 2: ingrained as the Cherokees, and it's all about and it's
Speaker 2: really honored by us. It's all about working together for
Speaker 2: the common good. Chief host Can signed an executive order
Speaker 2: implementing the Godogie Core Program and its aim is to
Speaker 2: increase volunteerism and participation in programs under this office to
Speaker 2: solve problems or provide support at the local level across
Speaker 2: the Cherokee Reservation. And I thought it was a very
Speaker 2: interesting concept because, I mean, who knows better the needs
Speaker 2: of your community than the people that are in that community?
Speaker 2: Exactly yeah so' and doing so I think that if
Speaker 2: you if you do a service, and this is kind
Speaker 2: of what I've learned along the way because I've volunteered
Speaker 2: with many programs, you can strengthen your Cherokee identity and community.
Speaker 2: And I think it's a great program and I think
Speaker 2: that it's something we need to impress upon the youth.
Speaker 2: You know, it's just the other way to get youth
Speaker 2: involved and maybe have a mentorship program, do different activities
Speaker 2: to help with aptitudes like reading, mathematics, science skills. They're
Speaker 2: going to help them as they.
Speaker 4: Go into the work.
Speaker 3: They did Sean Critten and who's the former tribal counselor,
Speaker 3: is actually the person in charge of Goodogi Corps. He's
Speaker 3: the executive director, and they did earlier this summer they
Speaker 3: did a reading camp down at Pevine in the southern
Speaker 3: part and it was very successful, and they're looking at
Speaker 3: doing one up farther north, and hopefully we're going to
Speaker 3: be doing more of these camps in the future. I
Speaker 3: think the goal was at least for the first year
Speaker 3: while Goodogi Corps was implemented, and looking at maybe doing
Speaker 3: not just math and reading, but transitional from elementary to
Speaker 3: junior high skills that these students will lead, you know,
Speaker 3: going as you move forward and get older.
Speaker 4: I mean they're used to being in.
Speaker 3: A home room all day long, going and learning how
Speaker 3: to change between classes and learning how how to you
Speaker 3: know respect and things that, Like you said, Cherokees traditionally
Speaker 3: have you need to have respect for your elders and
Speaker 3: it just cut morals, ethics, handling your emotions, things like that.
Speaker 2: But organizations school.
Speaker 3: Well, exactly, organizations schools things they can learn. And I
Speaker 3: think that they're doing that on top of the volunteerism
Speaker 3: and they can get volunteers to help with this kind
Speaker 3: of project.
Speaker 4: But lots of stuff. After that tornado around Claremore, I.
Speaker 3: Mean they were out oh in force, cleaning up and
Speaker 3: really helping people. That was it was greatly needed. And
Speaker 3: so you want to get a base. I think they're
Speaker 3: trying to get something set up maybe at Dewey, Washington
Speaker 3: County where you're at, and have a bank of people
Speaker 3: that they can call if something happens.
Speaker 2: God can activate people in Marshy.
Speaker 4: Exactly, and I think that's what a lot of what good.
Speaker 2: Do you greatly increased response times, We're not having to
Speaker 2: rely on Cherokee Nation emergency management to get everything in place.
Speaker 3: To come out and if you can get some We
Speaker 3: just we got some weatherization kits at NAPPY because we
Speaker 3: had a great need colder weather. And these people depend
Speaker 3: on stuff, and so Cherokee Nation has gotten some stuff
Speaker 3: to us that we can pass out because we had
Speaker 3: a list.
Speaker 1: And so.
Speaker 3: The other thing is this is a great opportunity for
Speaker 3: college students.
Speaker 4: Yes, now I don't know about in this area.
Speaker 3: I know in Coffeeville because I used to work for
Speaker 3: the Coffeeville, Kansas School District, but they require their students
Speaker 3: to get so many hours of community service every year
Speaker 3: in order to graduate from high school. Don't think it's
Speaker 3: a bad thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I think it'd also be a great idea
Speaker 2: to hold STEM camps as well. Oh yeah, for those
Speaker 2: of you who don't know, STEM is this acronym that's
Speaker 2: kind of been adopted in the last few years. You
Speaker 2: just mean science, Technology, engineering, and mathematics. If we had
Speaker 2: summer camps where kids could be engaged in things like
Speaker 2: robotics or three D printing, or at their maths skills
Speaker 2: and better prepare them for the world, whether they're going
Speaker 2: to go into a vocation, whether they're going to go
Speaker 2: into the workforce, whether they're going to go to college.
Speaker 2: You know, all those things require They're seemingly simple on
Speaker 2: the surface, but I know for a fact, things like
Speaker 2: three D printing, you have to start off for the concept.
Speaker 2: You have to start off for the concept, and then
Speaker 2: you have to manipulate that concept on a drafting platform
Speaker 2: to actually put it in put it into the printer
Speaker 2: and create something. So I think that's one of the things.
Speaker 2: It really unleashes a lot of things. It's it's not
Speaker 2: only your technical ability, but also your creative abilities.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And I know there's the ASIS, they call it American
Speaker 3: Indian Science and Engineering Society, Yes, and so that is
Speaker 3: a focus on Native Americans and I and there's always
Speaker 3: you know, we also like to focus on females because.
Speaker 4: There are very few, they're underrepresented, very much represent it.
Speaker 4: So you know, it's a good thing to get into.
Speaker 2: And we know that education is a lifelong process. I
Speaker 2: you know, learn, I try to learn something new every day,
Speaker 2: and I mean people have different interests and aptitudes. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but I think half the battle is encouraging that initial
Speaker 2: spark and desire to learn. You know, if you don't
Speaker 2: get that earlier in life, I think a lot of
Speaker 2: times that process kind of falls by the wayside. So
Speaker 2: teachers and that incredible ability to have them inspire their
Speaker 2: students that can make all the difference. I know, I
Speaker 2: went to a rural school. We didn't have a lot
Speaker 2: of resources, and I think a light bulb turned on
Speaker 2: for me with my science features because we started doing
Speaker 2: microscopy and some of the first few times I looked
Speaker 2: through a microscope and discovered this whole new world. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it really sparked this interest in microbiology and things like that. Well,
Speaker 2: now I hold a degree in molecular biology, so you know,
Speaker 2: you never know where the path that's going to lead.
Speaker 4: No, you don't. And I wasn't actually working.
Speaker 3: I worked for thirty years for the Coffeeville School District
Speaker 3: and I never I wasn't a teacher per se. I
Speaker 3: was their director of Indian Education and I had also
Speaker 3: worked as a secretary. But I'm telling you, and it
Speaker 3: is true, teachers, that is a calling. It's almost like
Speaker 3: becoming going in the medical field.
Speaker 4: I think it is a true. No, they don't.
Speaker 3: I mean, you can see people becoming in the medical
Speaker 3: field thinking they're going to make some money at this.
Speaker 3: But yeah, It's kind of a thankless job in a way.
Speaker 3: And the only thing I think that games you going,
Speaker 3: and I didn't. I thought, Okay, I'm not a teacher.
Speaker 3: I was.
Speaker 5: I was a teacher.
Speaker 4: I really was. Even as a secretary. You've got kids.
Speaker 4: You're interacting with these students and they look to you
Speaker 4: as an example.
Speaker 3: And I was a debate and forensics coach, speech coach
Speaker 3: for seventeen years and the best thing that can happen
Speaker 3: is when these kids they stay in.
Speaker 4: Contact with you. I am.
Speaker 3: I still have friends on It's amazing that I see
Speaker 3: students and they still call me missus Crane. I'm like, okay,
Speaker 3: you're forty five years old, now you can you know,
Speaker 3: you can call me by my first name.
Speaker 4: It's it was.
Speaker 3: Hard for me because I went to school in Coffeeville
Speaker 3: and I'm working with the those teachers and I still
Speaker 3: called I had a hard time calling them first names.
Speaker 3: It was always you know, missus so or mister so
Speaker 3: and so. But knowing that you probably made an impact
Speaker 3: on their life in some small way, yeah, I mean,
Speaker 3: it doesn't have to be anything huge if they remember you,
Speaker 3: or you see stuff on Facebook where somebody says teachers
Speaker 3: or somebody that inspired me and it just it makes
Speaker 3: you feel good.
Speaker 2: I think we all have somebody in our lives like
Speaker 2: that that.
Speaker 4: Inspired us something, oh exactly, you know.
Speaker 2: And I think that's where teachers are in a rule,
Speaker 2: because I mean, who spends more time with your kids
Speaker 2: on their parents? Usually they're at school. And so you know,
Speaker 2: if you have good teachers, all the difference in the world.
Speaker 4: That's true.
Speaker 2: So this program of good New Ecor, where do you
Speaker 2: see it headed becoming more involved in our communities? Do
Speaker 2: you see it being adopted on a broader scale?
Speaker 4: Right now?
Speaker 3: They're just you know, starting out here that they got
Speaker 3: they got it signed in and they and they're this
Speaker 3: is the first really full year that they're trying to
Speaker 3: do and meet these goals that they've set for themselves.
Speaker 3: I think as looking forward, I think things will become easy.
Speaker 3: I would love the idea of you know, everything is
Speaker 3: based in Tahlequah. It would be great if we had
Speaker 3: more things up here up north.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, just you know that we can do stuff.
Speaker 3: And I don't know, I'm hoping that that's going to
Speaker 3: happen in the future, that we could have some areas
Speaker 3: up here that we can take care of things. And
Speaker 3: but we all, like you said, Goodog, we all work
Speaker 3: together and get our direction from the main place in Tallequan.
Speaker 3: Maybe some other I mean, there's reservation goes farther south
Speaker 3: in Taallequa, so maybe they need areas down there even
Speaker 3: farther south. Right now, I think that they're looking at.
Speaker 3: Like I said, the education portion is just a couple
Speaker 3: of reading camps. I'm hoping that there would be that
Speaker 3: would be wonderful if we could do maybe four or
Speaker 3: five reading camps and people have or something and plan
Speaker 3: them during these school year or things like that.
Speaker 2: Summer programs would be a good idea because how many
Speaker 2: times do kids go on summer vacation. Yeah, they don't
Speaker 2: do any sort of supplemental learning. But I'm not saying,
Speaker 2: you know, don't make it some sort of drab, dreary things.
Speaker 2: You know, you're basically running a kid's vacation. Make it
Speaker 2: something that's engaging, make it something that's fun making exactly
Speaker 2: they're going to want to learn.
Speaker 4: But I and it's I think a lot of it.
Speaker 3: The volunteer is a portion is very very important because,
Speaker 3: like I said, we have college students when you for example,
Speaker 3: Cherokee Nation. The scholarship each semester is twenty five hundred dollars,
Speaker 3: but you are required to keep a certain GPA, pass
Speaker 3: a certain number of credit hours, and do twenty five
Speaker 3: hours of community service. You do an hour of service
Speaker 3: for every hundred dollars you receive, and but you don't
Speaker 3: have to pay the money back.
Speaker 4: That's it. I mean, that's fantastic.
Speaker 3: My daughter, my daughter took back when it was two
Speaker 3: thousand a semester and she did it and funded college
Speaker 3: that way, and it's amazing. But she really enjoyed the
Speaker 3: volunteers in portion. She had no trouble doing it. At
Speaker 3: the time it was twenty hours a semester. That's not
Speaker 3: a lot of hours, no, And I can promise you
Speaker 3: we have plenty of just at South Coffee Villa, at NAFI,
Speaker 3: there's always stuff for us to do. And we're lucky
Speaker 3: enough in the summertime we get summer youth through Cherokee
Speaker 3: Nation that they come in and work part times.
Speaker 4: So it's all good.
Speaker 2: So, Chris, I want to thank you for being on
Speaker 2: the show today. Yeah, before we go, we have a
Speaker 2: few announcements. Don't forget to check out our Cherokee Community
Speaker 2: Facebook pages for the latest events, news and meetings. Washington
Speaker 2: Kind of Cherokee Association, Cherokee Cultural Community in Dewey, and
Speaker 2: we a Cherokee Community Foundation as a Native American Fellowship
Speaker 2: in South Colckinville. I encourage everyone, whether Cherokee or not,
Speaker 2: to fight a community and get involved. I don't know
Speaker 2: whoever your people are, you know, you maybe Rotarians, maybe
Speaker 2: the Kowanas Club. You know, just get involved in your
Speaker 2: community because it's one of the most rewarding things that
Speaker 2: you can do. Also, check out the Delaware website not
Speaker 2: stage Facebook pages. I ask our listeners not to forget
Speaker 2: the Teton Trade Cloth Store located in the Johnstone Sarah
Speaker 2: Building or the location at the Eastland Shopping Center. You
Speaker 2: can also shop online at tetantrade cloth dot com. Cherokee
Speaker 2: Nation has two official offices open the Cherokee Cultural Community
Speaker 2: and Dewey to serve the Cherokee people. A Career Services
Speaker 2: Office and Cherokee Nation Human Resources Office, both located at
Speaker 2: seven hundred East Durham and Dewey. The Career Services Office
Speaker 2: is open Monday through Friday from eight to five. The
Speaker 2: Human Resources office is open Monday Wednesday and Friday from
Speaker 2: eight to five. Of course, I doubt day either one
Speaker 2: will be opening the Thursday or Friday of this week,
Speaker 2: but catch them next week because I'm sure they'll have
Speaker 2: their doors wide open. The Washington County Cherokee Association, Roshelida
Speaker 2: is offering free Cherokee language courses there every Saturday from
Speaker 2: ten am to noon by Matthew Church. He's a wonderful
Speaker 2: instructor and graduate of the Cherokee Language Program. We're located
Speaker 2: just east of the Kuiskui Health Clinic on County Road
Speaker 2: twenty nine hundred. Just as a note, we will not
Speaker 2: be having language courses over the next couple of weeks
Speaker 2: due to the holidays. We were zoom classes beginning December fourteenth,
Speaker 2: and once again, everyone is welcome. We'd love to see
Speaker 2: you there. Also, be sure to catch our friend Chris
Speaker 2: Crane on Friybred Journeys in the mighty six ninety KGGF.
Speaker 2: Check out their Facebook page. Chris tell them when that
Speaker 2: you can tune into your show.
Speaker 3: You're on the first and third Mondays here at nine
Speaker 3: forty five. I'm on the first and third Mondays on
Speaker 3: KGGF AM six ninety at nine ten until nine forty
Speaker 3: that's right, So yeah, I have, I do have.
Speaker 4: I know.
Speaker 3: Then you turn around at nine forty five and tune
Speaker 3: in here and listen to you, and I will tell you. Monday,
Speaker 3: I will have District twelve Tribal councilor dor Patskowski will
Speaker 3: be my guest, and we're going to talk about some
Speaker 3: of the things she's been doing in her district.
Speaker 2: So I ask everyone tune into our next broadcast, need
Speaker 2: to Beat at nine forty five in the morning next Monday,
Speaker 2: December second. A big wadeau. As we say in Cherokee,
Speaker 2: wado to you. Chris cream one is she is the
Speaker 2: Delaware would say, WANSI is the Osage would say, And
Speaker 2: it's all of you listening. Do to do goha e
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