Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome. It's time now for Charon key Chat is the name of our program here today, and we have with this Misty Wishall and John Weston and welcome back to the scene of the crime. We were just here by a week ago, weren't we. That's right, it's Stajavoo all over again. Tom, But tell us a little bit about something. We're going to be doing this on Monday's alternating Mondays here for yes, we are for for a good long
while here. So tell the folks what we're all about and what's going to happen. Well, I was approached when we had the meeting here with Lieutenant
Governor Padel and the Chief Chief Hoskin by Lyle Martin. He's the president of the Coffee ill Cooperative Credit Union. And there's a show that they have up in KGGF one of your stations up there, six ninety, that's right, and it's called fry Red Journeys, and it covers a lot of the issues, you know, concerning a lot of the communities we have, education,
a lot of the issues affecting the tribe. And so we thought, hey, hey, why don't We have a program down here like this that covers the communities that we have here in District twelve, which is basically a no Wada and well parts of no Wada in Washington County, a little bit of Rogers and and just you know, just let everyone know what's going on the communities, but also let maybe people know what's going on with Cherokee Nation,
you know, just kind of bring awareness to some of these things. And what we feel is we want to be a show that's not limited in scope because we feel that all cultures have something to contribute, they all have value. So you know, we have the Lenape, the Delaware tribe of Indians here in Barnasville. They're headquartered here in Barnsville. We have the oce Age over in Osage County, of course, and you know, we have the Shawnee, who are kind of in our area and they're adopted Yes you're Shawnee.
Yeah, and they were adopted Cherokee. I got to talk to you about that, Yeah, yeah, absolutely, and uh. And so you know, we we want to cover kind of all of our bases with it, but also things that are important for the community. And you know, we have a concept in Cherokee Nation and something that we're kind of ingrained with, and it's it's a concept that a lot of people, especially in Cherokee
Nation. It's called kadugie and that just means community. And basically, in the early days of the tribe, if people were in need, you had a group of people they would go around and they would do different things for those people and if it was baking bread or say chopping wood or whatever they needed to help them out. And I think that, I really think that as a people, we have carried that with us, those traditions with us on through the years. And I think really if you think about it,
for example, we went you know through the trail teers. We've had a lot of adversity in our tribe. And I really believe that the only thing you really learned from that, the most valuable lesson you learned from that is the only thing you can really depend on is one another. And I think the goodoogie, in the spirit of goodogi, I think that's what we do is as a community between CCC and w c c A and NAFIE and you know, we the communities, you know, we've all learned to work together
we always try to help each other out. And I think that that's it's just part of being a Cherokee community. But the cool thing about that is, and how I see it benefiting our community here in Bartsville, is that we carry that over in the communities that we live in too. You know, we try to serve our communities. In fact, we have somebody with us here today that's no strength. I was gonna say, by God, that's where you got that? You yes, exactly right. It's it's her
Cherokee. It's her Cherokee heritage showing through. And you know, but but I'm really happy to have her with us here today as a guest. She's a terrific person. She has such a heart for this community and she's the current director of the Mary Martha Outreach here in Barnsville. And it's good to have you with us today. And mister, you have a big event coming
we do. Yes. This Saturday, March ninth, we have our annual five K fundraiser Shamrock Theville, and it's our only fundraiser for Catholic charities Mary Martha Outreach and most people are familiar with that, but it's food pantry and crisis help here in Bartlesville, and we're taking sign ups until noon on Wednesday, and it's our fifteenth year, so we're really hoping to make it our biggest yet. So so, how have you seen it grow over the years,
Well, just the word of mouth and just helping. I think Facebook has helped a lot. As of this morning, we have six hundred and twenty one runners, so we're really breathing down our goal or our record's next, so we're really hopeful us do it. How many did you start out with, like in your first few years, Well, that was prior to my time, but I mean since I've been there, we've had between five and six seven hundred so and this will be my six to one so but
yeah, I mean it's just grown every year. So and so the proceeds go to benefit Mary Martha Allensolu. It is do you guys provide any other services? We do, so we have a clothing room and we also have furniture and crisis help and for we help with burnout and domestic violence victims. We work closely with the Delaware Tribe and Ray of Hope and any other community agency that may need us. So we're we're being a community collaborator. Collaborator
is one of our top priorities. So you have a you have a website for Shamrock We do. It's shamrock theeviille dot com. Yeah, it's pretty us. Yes, we're still looking for volunteers because we put them on each street corner. But you can still pre register for twenty five dollars until the day of it's thirty five. So and the T shirts are super cool. So if anything, sign up to get a T shirt. I sign absolutely. I'm not a runner neither. You don't have to, that's right.
You can walk and you can just come cheer. Yeah, exactly right. You can be a couch runner. That's a lazy boy caest pilot. Yes you can. We actually have a cheering from the couch, right, And so you're going to be giving out, you're gonna be having contests at Shamrockville. Well, we used to have cow traces, but those got they could be dangerous. But actually, now that it's chipped in timed, people don't have to wait to get the final numbers in for their time and the results.
So people kind of got a little bored. They wanted to find out you know right then, so we're able to find out the runners the winners. So we don't do that anymore. But we just have fun, you know. We have a photo booth and we just there's a lot of a sea of green. We just it's just a great community event. So where are you located? So Catholic Charity's is located right behind United Supermarket on eighteen forty five West Fourth and we're open Monday through Thursday for our food pantry Monday
through Wednesday nine to eleven, Thursdays twelve to two. And the race will be downtown at the Tower Center Unity Square. Yes, we started that back the first year was open. As a matter of fact, were under instruction still when we started the first race down there. So we're excited. It's a great spot and a great place for our community as well. Great and so Shamrock the Ville is happening March ninth. Proceeds go to benefit Mary Martha
Outreach. What a great service you provide. Registration goes from seven forty five to eight forty five. Does for people that haven't already pre registered to packet pick up on Thursday Thursday for those that have pre registered, and then they can still register the day of and so the five k begins at nine and the nine shot yeah about nine oh five, and that's a one mile fun run walk me too, me too. It's just a great time, really
is. And you can download a form to enter at shamrock Theviille dot com. You can or do it electronically as well, or even if you want to volunteer, absolutely still looking for a few volunteers. You will get a pre t shirt if you volunteer. Okay, John, these are collectors items, are I know? Yeah, but I'm also wearing a collector's item.
This is my my cherokey. Yeah, I'm wearing it because tomorrow, if if you remember, is the is the primary for presidential primary SIS and and so you go vote at your local precinct or polling location and the polls open at seven and they close at seven. So it's very important. I think voting is right. We definitely need the exercise so we don't lose it. Absolutely, And if you don't vote, I don't feel you have a right to complain. No, definitely use a little bit more colorful, yeah exactly,
yeah, not for the radio. So, by the way, Misty, we're able to get up to CCC for the Taco Indian Talk. I didn't get to make it to the tacos, but I was there last week for the big announcement for the Cherokee services that's going to be implemented. It's it's going to be fantastic with the Chief has just really brought a lot to
the community. When and Dora Pitskowski and we just tribal counselor yes, yes, so we have you know the Oceleda area now CCC and Dewey so people proceeds for last weekend went for Operation EAG people they're going to have a spring pow wow usually at the Washington kind of fair grounds and so but those ladies they make some great tacos. I'd love to see how that turned out.
Absolutely. I know I was working the elections downtown or I would have gone, uh, And I was like, I was hoping somebody would take mercy on me and bring me an Indian taco. But that never man. Yeah, we have stripped out in our house over the weekend. Yeah. So so every month on Cherokee Talk, we're going to have a giveaway for an awesome prize for the listeners. Uh to enter. You have to follow us on Facebook. That's great. Yeah, and we we're gonna we have a
prize post that we're going to do. Uh. And if you responded that in post in the post and the comments section, that enters you for a chance to win. Now, I have a prize word if you listen to this broadcast that you have to enter in the comments. And the prize word for this month is going to be fry bread. That's a little lot to our friends up at AGGF to do fried bread journeys, Chris Crane and Amy Dollar Hyde. So anyway, and this month's prize is a autographed handmade flute
by Cherokee National Trade through Tommy Wildcat. He's very well known. Yes, fact, he's been a featured on National Geographic Discovery Channel. Uh. He was in a American Express commercial when they had a Charge the Hunger campaign that played during a Beatles anthology. I mean, he is, he is well known, just a multitude of awards, and he's an all around humble, great guy. He is, you know, and he's a big guy with
a big heart. You know, he really is, and you know, and he wants to take the time to talk with you about Cherokee culture language. I mean, I learned so much from him just just traveling around the same circles, you know. But yeah, hold up, yeah, let's hold this up. This is the autograph flute. Yeah there you go, right there. Yeah, and the autography is right there. That is Tommy Wildcat's signature. Yeah. Absolutely. And he makes he handmakes these. He
goes and gathers the river cane. Uh. He he sort of sendes the edges and I know he drills them out and drills the holes. And I've watched him. He's done videos and how he does the process, and it's pretty amazing how he just goes out and collects him and builds a flute. You know. Top of that, he plays like nobody's business. Oh absolutely, Yeah. Well, I'm also want to do a few announcements about our communities that we have here. She mentioned CCC, which is the Cherokee Culture
Community. It's located at seven hundred East Durham and Dewey. You turn east right before you get to the Dollar General on the southern edge of town.
During this time of year, the community meetings are typically on Saturdays at noon, and that's for daylight savings time because We realize that a lot of attendees have a difficulty driving at night, so as a courtesy to those folks, they try to have Saturday meetings so that more people can have an opportunity to do attend But I think that this month we're going back to third Thursday. This month, they're going back to their third Thursday and those meetings are usually
at six six pm. And hey, here's the thing too. They usually post post about their meetings on their Facebook page and keep you up current on events, so be sure to follow the Cherokee Cultural Community Facebook page in Dewey. And the other exciting thing which Misdy alluded to is the establishment of two Cherokee Nation offices to help our tribal citizens. One is the Cherokee Nation Career Services and the other human resources offices that we have. Career Services is open
from eight to five Monday through Friday. Feel free to drop in the human resources office now it's not quite open yet, yeah, but it's going to be open soon, very soon. So that's going to be another way we can provide services for Cherokees in this area. Now at the Washington County Cherokee Association in Oceanida, that's next door the Kuyskui Health Clinic, where I'm secretary
of the board. We'll be hosting a Cherokee National Treasurer, Danny McCarter, who specializes in traditional Cherokee weaponry to includes the boat, making, blow dart guns and blow darts. He's very knowledgeable about Cherokee history and culture. In fact, we're going to have a live demonstration right there in our building of him using a blow dart gun making blow darts. I hope my fingers are crossed that all is going to go well. Remember Xhale don't in here.
Yeah, yeah, And we're going to probably distribute the safety I word everyone, just to be on the safe side. Anyway. That's Thursday evening, March seventh, and six pm. All right, I want to thank you. I think this went very very well Cherokee Chatter first episode with thanks John Weston and Misty Wishall. Thank you very much for being here with us. Oh, absolutely, Tomas. Looking forward to hearing about another week and a half, two weeks something like that. All right, stay tuned, We've
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