Speaker 1: And good morning.
Speaker 2: Welcome to Native Beat here on K one AM fourteen
Speaker 2: ninety three point three and ninety five point one. Nathan
Speaker 2: Thompson here with John Weston, John o CEO.
Speaker 1: How are you, my friend, O CEO, Nathan Tohitu, how
Speaker 1: are you today?
Speaker 3: Great? Doing great?
Speaker 1: Little rainy out there, but you know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like I said earlier, I'm not sure if I
Speaker 4: should have paddled in or if I should have flown in.
Speaker 3: You could probably do either one this week with the
Speaker 3: wind exactly exactly.
Speaker 4: So anyway, Happy Monday and all of you out there
Speaker 4: listening to the Native Beat, or as we would say
Speaker 4: on the Cherokee Reservation also quanha he. This past week
Speaker 4: and this coming week has been and will be one
Speaker 4: of the busiest ones here for our local Day of Communities.
Speaker 4: We have community meetings, an open house, a ribbon cutting ceremony,
Speaker 4: and Toys for Tots campaign just in the next few days.
Speaker 3: Wow.
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Speaker 4: like to thank you our listeners as you're for your
Speaker 4: continued support and tuning into the show. As I mentioned earlier,
Speaker 4: it has been and will be a busy week locally
Speaker 4: for our local Native communities. Last Saturday, Chief Hoskin Councilor
Speaker 4: Patskowski from our district District twelve and New District eleven
Speaker 4: Councilor Kindra mcgate hosted a community meeting at the Noda
Speaker 4: Cherokee Community Building. Several departments were there also on hand
Speaker 4: answer questions and provide information to tribal members. The following Tuesday,
Speaker 4: our Chief provided a State of the Cherokee Nation update
Speaker 4: as part of a presentation of the Nowada Chamber of Commerce.
Speaker 4: He talked about some of the contributions Cherokee Nation is
Speaker 4: made to Nowada and its impact on the surrounding area,
Speaker 4: including the investment of one million dollars into the building
Speaker 4: of a new water tower No Wada and improvements to
Speaker 4: the water infrastructure there to help ensure residents have quality
Speaker 4: drinking water. The Chief also discussed the impact of bringing
Speaker 4: jobs to the area with the building the Will Rogers
Speaker 4: Health Center, the Nutrition and the Food Distribution Center, as
Speaker 4: well as the newly completed Cherokee Nation and the head
Speaker 4: Start Center.
Speaker 3: It's a state of the art facility.
Speaker 4: Cherokee Nation invested seven point three million dollars then, and
Speaker 4: he also spoke about the affordable housing crisis and how
Speaker 4: just a Northeastern Oklahoma alone, it would require an investment
Speaker 4: of one point seventy five billion dollars to make up
Speaker 4: for this shortage. To address this need, Cherokee Nation real
Speaker 4: Estate recently made permanent the Housing, Jobs and Sustainability Communities Act,
Speaker 4: which invests forty million every three years into the building
Speaker 4: of new homes, fifteen percent of which is earmarked for
Speaker 4: the construction and maintenance of our community buildings like the
Speaker 4: ones you see at Dewey and Oceanlaeda. We're seeing the
Speaker 4: benefit of this legislation in our area done at Oceanlada
Speaker 4: with the building of four duplexes next door to our
Speaker 4: community building. We're thankful to the Chief and Cherokee Nation
Speaker 4: are for stepping up to help address this issue. I
Speaker 4: know it's been an ongoing one here in Northeastern Oklahoma
Speaker 4: as it has been across the country.
Speaker 3: Really yeah, absolutely so.
Speaker 4: Last Thursday, there was a community beating that was hosted
Speaker 4: by our friends in Native American Fellowships in South Cofferville
Speaker 4: along with Chief Hooskin and Counselor mcgety.
Speaker 3: To give you an.
Speaker 1: Idea of the chief schedule, he was at Yale Law School.
Speaker 4: Delivering an address that afternoon in Connecticut, and was in
Speaker 4: South Coffee Well by seven pm that evening for the meeting.
Speaker 4: My goodness, his father, Chuck Senior was there. Both men
Speaker 4: were counselors for District eleven. That was their area before
Speaker 4: they went on the higher office. While Chuck Senior he
Speaker 4: actually wanted to become a mayor of Venda, YEP in
Speaker 4: the state legislature.
Speaker 1: But anyway, it was interesting. It was interesting listening to
Speaker 1: Chuck Senior.
Speaker 4: Talk about Cherokee Nation and District eleven thirty years ago
Speaker 4: and how many of the things we enjoyed today were
Speaker 4: a dream back then. Yes, it was a great evening
Speaker 4: with a great turnout. We had abound one hundred and
Speaker 4: sixty people present. It was just really a great evening
Speaker 4: of community, and I think at night all of us
Speaker 4: are going to remember for a long time. Absolutely sounds incredible.
Speaker 4: I also mentioned that we're going to have a busy
Speaker 4: week ahead. Tomorrow at one pm will be the grand
Speaker 4: opening of the seven point three million dollar Child Development
Speaker 4: Center in Nowada. The public is welcome to attend. This
Speaker 4: new center is located at one thousand and one Lenape
Speaker 4: Draw I have across from the Nutrition Center and just
Speaker 4: a little down from the road from the Will Rogers
Speaker 4: Health Center. Also tomorrow, the Cherokee Cultural Community in Dewey,
Speaker 4: which has a Cherokee Nation Career Services Office, we'll be
Speaker 4: having an open house from ten am to two pm,
Speaker 4: and that's at seven hundred East Durham Road. They'll be
Speaker 4: highlighting some of the programs and services they offer. So
Speaker 4: if you're looking for a job, or if you're wanting
Speaker 4: to find a way to update your skills or your resume,
Speaker 4: they'd be a good place for you to drop by
Speaker 4: and find out what they have to offer.
Speaker 3: Beautiful facility there. Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 4: Also on Tuesday, one pm at the Washington County Fairgrounds,
Speaker 4: our Tribal Counselor door At Patskowski, and several members of
Speaker 4: our communities will be gathering to help sort toys by age, gender,
Speaker 4: and sex. It's my understanding there will be three semi
Speaker 4: loads of toys coming in this year, over one hundred thousand,
Speaker 4: over one hundred thousand toys, and this is part of
Speaker 4: the Toys for Tots program. It benefits every school child
Speaker 4: in our district and also school children in District eleven
Speaker 4: at South Coffeeville, which I think is just a wonderful program.
Speaker 4: On Thursday, November twenty first, CCC, the Cherokee Cultural Community,
Speaker 4: we'll be hosting its monthly potluck at six pm. The
Speaker 4: Operation Eagle Dancers will be there to provide a demonstration.
Speaker 4: If you have kids who are interested in joining, please
Speaker 4: consider attending once again that address to seven hundred East
Speaker 4: Durham Road. With Thanksgiving coming up, I want to talk
Speaker 4: a little bit about something we Cherokees hold dear, the
Speaker 4: idea of gratitude being thankful. I know this time of
Speaker 4: year can be stressful and we don't always remind ourselves
Speaker 4: of what's truly important or what we should be thankful for,
Speaker 4: but I think it's important to take a moment to reflect.
Speaker 3: I know that we can get to get bogged down.
Speaker 4: By the festivities and the parties and the endless preparation
Speaker 4: and planning and all the work that goes into pulling
Speaker 4: off the holidays, but it's definitely also a time which
Speaker 4: is just slowed down and kind of remember the reason
Speaker 4: we're celebrating these holidays.
Speaker 3: Absolutely.
Speaker 4: Abraham Bearpav for those who don't know, as a motivational
Speaker 4: speaker well known in the Cherokee Nation, he has developed
Speaker 4: a curriculum for living a balanced life. In fact, he's
Speaker 4: been involved in teaching this course at many of our
Speaker 4: Cherokee communities. His book, Walking in Balance provides a blueprint
Speaker 4: for not only living a balance life, but for want
Speaker 4: of wellness. It addresses everything from communication, mindfulness, respects, service,
Speaker 4: self care, perseverance, and gratitude, among other aspects. Since we're
Speaker 4: near and dear to Thanksgiving, just to point out that
Speaker 4: Cherokee culture, gratitude is something we aspire to daily. In fact,
Speaker 4: I think it's no mistake that in his book Walking
Speaker 4: in Balance, the first topic he touches on is gratitude.
Speaker 4: He put it front and center. Studies have shown that
Speaker 4: practicing gratitude daily can improve both their physical and mental health.
Speaker 4: And Abraham mentions in his book How to Ceremonial Grounds,
Speaker 4: we are taught to spit out our first bite of
Speaker 4: food as a way of giving back to the earth.
Speaker 3: He states, it's difficult.
Speaker 4: To maintain this spirit of gratefulness once we return to
Speaker 4: our homes and we go about our daily lives.
Speaker 1: So it's something we have we need to work on first.
Speaker 3: It's important we appreciate what we.
Speaker 4: Have what we may want based on the daily bombardment
Speaker 4: of ads we encounter every day. Second, we need to
Speaker 4: make sure our self worth isn't defined by others. And third,
Speaker 4: we need to remind ourselves how grateful we are to
Speaker 4: those that we have in our lives. This helps break
Speaker 4: the negative mindset which is easy for us to fall into,
Speaker 4: especially when we're stressed. Bearpauk created a list of action steps.
Speaker 3: Which I think is great.
Speaker 4: He not only identifies the problem that he provides a solution,
Speaker 4: but then he also provides a plan of action in
Speaker 4: his book, and I think that's a wonderful thing because
Speaker 4: so many of these self help books that you come
Speaker 4: across kind of fail to do that.
Speaker 1: So he has these action steps.
Speaker 4: He recommends making a daily list of what you're thankful
Speaker 4: for mentally, verbally, or just.
Speaker 3: By writing it down.
Speaker 4: It helps you focus on the things that you are
Speaker 4: grateful for, on your blessings rather than your anxiety. He
Speaker 4: also recommends taking a gratitude picture.
Speaker 3: In his book.
Speaker 4: He states pictures are a great great way to memorialize
Speaker 4: what you're grateful for. This is very easy to do
Speaker 4: and it captures that moment of gratitude, so you can
Speaker 4: return to it anytime you wish.
Speaker 3: I think a lot of us do that.
Speaker 4: You know, we get together to have a gathering of
Speaker 4: friends or family. You know, we try to take pictures,
Speaker 4: and it's like, that's basically what we're doing. We're going
Speaker 4: to look back on fondness with the good times, and
Speaker 4: it's a great way to distress. Honestly, when you go
Speaker 4: through photographs.
Speaker 3: It is. It is.
Speaker 4: And so the last action step, he mentions, is to
Speaker 4: invite your family to practice gratitude. I know this is
Speaker 4: something commonly done at Thanksgiving, but bear Pas suggests we
Speaker 4: make this a daily occurrence. Whether you're sitting down to
Speaker 4: eat or you have a particular time of day you're
Speaker 4: all together, have each member of your family list one
Speaker 4: thing they are grateful for. And this is kind of
Speaker 4: a great quote from the book. He states, this exercise
Speaker 4: takes minimal time, but is a great way to interrupt
Speaker 4: the daily business, a daily busy routine to refocus on gratitude.
Speaker 4: You may get some off the wall answers from your children,
Speaker 4: like I'm glad my brother's feet don't smell today, But
Speaker 4: you may also get a valuable peek into their very
Speaker 4: busy lives and honestly, if you think about it, it's
Speaker 4: also a great way to understand the mindset of your
Speaker 4: family members. And it's just an avenue for you to
Speaker 4: communicate and and expressed to each other.
Speaker 3: How much you mean to one another.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, and I think that's something that sorely needed these days.
Speaker 1: So I agree with you one hundred percent exactly.
Speaker 4: These action steps will go a long way reminding us
Speaker 4: of why we need to stay focused on why gratitude
Speaker 4: is an important aspect of a healthy life, not only
Speaker 4: a Thanksgiving but daily.
Speaker 1: So before we go today, we have a few announcements,
Speaker 1: actually several announcements.
Speaker 4: I want to remind everyone don't forget to check out
Speaker 4: our Cherokee community facebook pages for the latest events, news
Speaker 4: and meetings, for example of the Washington County Cherokee Association
Speaker 4: in Ocean Leda, the Cherokee Culture Community in Dewey, the
Speaker 4: Nowa Cherokee Community Foundation and NOWATA, and the Native American
Speaker 4: Fellowship in South Coffeeville. I encourage everyone, whether Cherokee or not,
Speaker 4: to find a community and get involved. I was recently
Speaker 4: at a community meeting in Marble City and we were
Speaker 4: asked to stand up and introduce who we were what
Speaker 4: communities we were with, And I thought one of the
Speaker 4: interesting things is it seems like we're at no point
Speaker 4: in human history have we ever been more supposedly connected
Speaker 4: by technology, right, social media, all sorts of communication apps,
Speaker 4: everything we have right at our disposal, our fingertips. But
Speaker 4: yet it seems, you know, it almost seems like there
Speaker 4: is a dichotomy there because we also have never I feel,
Speaker 4: I believe we also have never felt more disconnected as
Speaker 4: a group. We don't we have the ability to communicate,
Speaker 4: but we don't really have community. And I find a
Speaker 4: lot of younger people who come to our community organizations
Speaker 4: there are two things really.
Speaker 3: That they're wanting to learn.
Speaker 4: About culture and they want to feel that sense of community.
Speaker 4: And I think there's really no better way than to
Speaker 4: do that face to face.
Speaker 3: Absolutely absolutely so.
Speaker 4: Anyway, just check out those pages if you want to
Speaker 4: get involved. Also check out the Delaware website and No
Speaker 4: Stage Facebook pages. I ask our listeners not to forget
Speaker 4: the t Ton trade Cloth store located in the Johnstone
Speaker 4: Stair Building or their location at the Eastland Shopping Center.
Speaker 4: You can also shop online at t to on tradecloth
Speaker 4: dot com. Cherokee Nation has two official offices opened the
Speaker 4: Cherokee Culture Community in Dewey to serve the Cherokee People
Speaker 4: Career Services Office and Cherokee Nation Human Resources, both located
Speaker 4: at seven hundred Easter.
Speaker 1: As I stated earlier, the.
Speaker 4: Career Services Office is opened Monday through Friday from eight
Speaker 4: to five. The Human Resources Office is open Monday, Wednesday
Speaker 4: and Friday from eight to five. Just to let everyone know,
Speaker 4: on Saturdays, at the Washington County Cherokee Association in Oceleda,
Speaker 4: we're offering free Cherokee language courses from ten am to noon.
Speaker 4: They're taught by Matthew Church. He's a wonderful instructor graduated
Speaker 4: of Cherokee Language program. We're located justice at the Kuisku
Speaker 4: Health Clinic on twenty nine hundred Road. Now, one of
Speaker 4: the great things about Matthew is he's also for his
Speaker 4: day job, he's a kindergarten teacher.
Speaker 1: That's great, and so we actually learned the days of
Speaker 1: the week in Cherokee not longer.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: There you go to the tune of the Adams song
Speaker 1: Adams Family. Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 3: So that was great.
Speaker 4: Also, I want to remind everyone to be sure to
Speaker 4: catch our friend Chris Crane on Freybred Journeys on the
Speaker 4: ninety six ninety KGGF.
Speaker 1: Be sure to check out their Facebook page.
Speaker 4: They always have something really great on it, whether it's
Speaker 4: cultural or whether they're doing a lot of times they
Speaker 4: do giveaways which are just great with all sorts of
Speaker 4: interesting books and cultural items.
Speaker 3: That's always a great thing.
Speaker 4: And speaking of Chris, she'll be joining me on our
Speaker 4: next edition of Native Beat. She is going to be
Speaker 4: November twenty seventh and nine. Chris is also for those
Speaker 4: who don't know, she is the secretary of the Native
Speaker 4: American Fellowship in South Coffeeville, and they're just a great
Speaker 4: community up there. I know that a lot of times
Speaker 4: they're unity together. They have over one thousand people that
Speaker 4: would turn out, which is just astounding for any sort.
Speaker 3: Of community events.
Speaker 4: So those kind of a the testaments of the community
Speaker 4: that they have built up there. You can catch Native
Speaker 4: Beat on the Varzel Radio Facebook page. You're on demand
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Speaker 4: I want to say a big wad though, as we
Speaker 4: say in Cherokee, what oh do you Nathan for having
Speaker 4: me on? Absolutely niche is the Delaware would say, WANSI
Speaker 4: is the Osage would say, and to all of you listening,
Speaker 4: dota nogoha e until we meet again.
Speaker 3: Perfect John, thank you so much for this edition of
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