And good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome. It is time now for our community connection right here on K one, the one you trust, and we are live in the studio here with the Delaware Tribe of Indians. You have Assistant Chief Tanya Anna here, also Shannon Robidou and Dna Morrel. So, ladies, why goodness six we have a full house. Yes we do. Thank you for having us, and we got a lot going on. First of all, because it's it's hot
outside. Everybody knows that. I want to kind of point out the obvious here first, thank you for providing a cooling center for people who just cannot find any other way to beat the heat. Absolutely, we have a lot of members in the community as well as our own membership. And it's open from one to five. That's Monday through Friday, and that's after our elders lunch, So you feel free to come from one to five. And it's right there on Tuxedo at the mean, it's right on Tuxedo. We're located
at the corner of Tuxedo and Madison and it's forsythe halls dining hall. All right, great, well, there's a lot of growth going on. I can tell because we used to just have one person coming here from the Delaware Tribe. Now we got three. We got a lot going on here. Ladies sent us straight here. What's happening? Yeah, so i'd like to reduce. This is Shannarouba Doo. She is our new executive director of Tribal Operations. Hi. Welcome, by the way, Thank you, thank you.
It's great to be here. And we have Dana Merle. She is our executive Assistant to the Chief and Tribal Council. Sweet nice, good morning, Happy to be here. We've got three probably of the four busiest people in the hole. There's some others that are busy as well. Yeah, but I understand. We have a new veterans memorial, Yes we do. It's located as soon as you pull into the campus off a tuxedo. You're on Barber Street and the memorial is located to the left and you can see
it's right behind the pond. The dedication was back in May, right before the Powell May twenty fifth. It was the Delaware War Mothers and the Veterans Committee did the dedication, and so that's new to our campus. You know, uh, we we did some stories about the pow wow, and word was everybody had just a lot of fun. It was. It was really a good time for everybody. A lot of families. Oh yeah, that's a big family reunion for a lot of the locals. Now, tell us
about this football game. It's not like any other football game. It's brutal rights. It's a man against the women. Ohky, so it's it's not your typical football. Oh. They use a ball that's made out of deer hide that's filled with hair and so it's real soft. It's not like a football that people think. And there's really no rules to it. You have you have, Um, the goals are at each end like a football field, but the polls are three to part and so you have to get the
ball in between those poles. But really the only rules to the game is really there's no rules for the women. The men they do have to kick it from wherever they are, so if they catch it, they have to drop it to the ground, pick it up, kick it, or they can kick it from the ground. Um, they're not allowed to run with it. But like I said, the women can do whatever they and it's right. It's brutal. My It just sounds like it's kind of fun to
watch, but as absolutely nothing exactly how it is. Oh my god, I understand we have plans for a new gym coming up. Go ahead and elaborate. Oh great, Yes, we do have plans for a new gym, and we are currently waiting on some approvals through the city because we have to do some work to Madison and Ohio Street. And once we get that approval and a couple of other approvals with our funding agency, then we will be able to start start the building process of the roads and then the building
of the gym. But the gym is a huge endeavor that we are excited about because it's going to enable us to expand our services for our wellness center. It's going to provide an indoor walking trail around the top of the gym. It'll enable us to have some indoor activities when such as how we'll get togethers inside and things like that, as well as play basketball tournaments and other events. So we're really excited about this. Just can get a lot of
use ya. Wow, you know, if you're going to do it and do it right and make sure it gets you used. Oh goodness sakes, now, I'm not good with this. One word here is it Lenapi yep, one in a row. I got it right. I understand we're expanding the Lenape Early Learning Center with this gym. Two. Yes, we um the gym and the early Learning Learning Center expansion are going to take place at
the same time. Okay. So we're going to add some additional rooms classrooms to our early Learning Center and be able to increase the number of children that we can take into our l ELC. And we're also going to have a half gym that is contained within the early Learning Center so that our little guys are able to participate in those same type of activities that the older children will participate in the full gym. Well, that's a good idea. Run off
some energy. Oh boy, that's a real good idea. Now I understand. You have the new food pantry up and going. How's that we're gonna Yes, we have the new food pantry, and we have Councilman Rusty Brown. It was his idea. He was looking for a food closet. Um he was just one in a small space, but he got whole pantry and now he's looking at bringing to us an orchard gardens. Possible greenhouse. So
we have a food sovereignty program for our own people. You know what this tells me next time Rusty has an idea, let him go for it. There you go, Yes, man, that clot fire didn't. Yes, he's been a big asset to the council. It goes a little bit about the wellness center. That's that's going on. Anna, Do you want to talk about the wellness center? Sure? Yeah. Our wellness center is located on Barbara Street. When you pull in, UM, it's just kind of
down down the hill from the main campus. M The hours are eight to five and Cody Bichman as the director and she's got a wealth of knowledge on exercising for what age group that you are. There's there's UM your regulars that come in you know in the mornings, and there are people that you know
come in and it's a really sweet little wellness center. UM. If you go in there and exercise, and if you're in there at the right time, you've got the place to yourself and that's really cozy and it's nice because some of the some of the some of the equipment that we have, UM, the treadmills are really keen. UM I really like the stairstepping. We've
got a stairstepping machine there and the quality of them are nice. And there's also a place for showers and you can wash up before you leave and stuff like that. So it's really keen. It's well, you describe that, I just lost five pounds thinking no small feet for me. Wade Cody is a prime example. She's lost a significant amount. I can't think of how
many pounds she lost, but she just wow, that's great. She's created some really neat wellness activities for the employees to some challenges and some prizes and stuff for us. All so well, she's keeping the whole campus in shape well good. In fact, she's in the process of um putting together a med run, and that advertised before too long, but she's wanting to put together a med run for this fall. So you know, it's fun to watch, but if you're participating in it, you might as well just run
a marathon and just save yourself. But you do have the coolness of the mud. In case you know you're starting to feel it, you can just go down to see I'm good. Oh you guys, think of everything we try. Now I want to talk to you a little bit about the tribal archives. This had to be kind of interesting because you know, the Delaware tribe, I understand, came from all the way from New York. Yes here and during Yes, our archive is Anita Mathis. She's there Monday through
Friday. I believe her hours are nine to five. Um. Delaware members have taken old pictures artifacts down to her to be archive great. So we do have a research center that's located in her area, which is in the Cultural Center, and you can go in, you can research family, look up history on the Delaware. So she's full of information. She has a small library that's located in her facility as well. Wow, this is neat. You know, you can learn the history if you're not familiar with it.
I know, you know, because my family, we have a lot of crible membrans have married in and what have you. And going back and doing the research was never an easy thing back in the sixties, in the seventies, got a little easier in the eighties and nineties. But now, wow, yes, yeah, it's full of information. And we've had several members take old pictures down of their own family. Oh wow, that's neat. Now I understand if you're a senior, you might get a little bit
of help with the nutrition program Title six. That's our elder nutrition program. They meet as long as the center's open Monday through Friday. They start serving at noon. I believe. The cost for meals for anyone under fifty five is six dollars. They request a donation of two dollars, I believe, and they do serve from noon to one. They have a daily menu. It's on our website at Delaware Tribe dot org, so they can locate the menu under the Elder Services. They also have bingo on Thursdays. Yeah,
and then they have chair exercises on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Go work off that stuff. Oh yes, and they're right yeah, right now they're doing basket weaving, so they had a lady come in to teach some of our elders how to do that. You know, for the cost you just gave out there, you can't go to a fast food restaurant and get even a cheat meal for that. And with this, you're getting something that's nutritionally
laid out for you. It's going to do you a benefit. Beside, it's just going down the ill gullet as they say, they do have a good menu. Tree Kirby is the director of that program and she has she has done so much fundraising. Is brought in an ice cream machine, a slushy machine, and I can't even think of what a popcorn machine. So she's she's really vamping that program. So them elders really like it. And they've got a really great salad bar. Yeah, I've been told is the
best one in town. There. You get go green Man, you gotta go green to the Veggie's there. What is lenape Connect, well, Nay Connect. That's the tribal app that they have that the council approved and it's a way that people can put um it's like a just an app like Facebook without the public hi looking in. It's specific to the tribal members and so they can put it on their device and just at the touch of a button, scroll just like you can and see what other people have posted about,
what other topics that they choose to add to their categories. So whether it's cultural events, um, something specific to the pow wow, maybe some pow wow pictures, maybe reunion pictures. Something just to connect other Delaware with other Delaware that may not have known that they were on there without the out So it's just a connection, very convenient connection to connection to all. You can keep the circle circle exactly exactly. I don't know if that made a sense
to anybody else, but it made sense to me. Now we have the Delaware Indian News. It's published Airvoy Quarter, and I understand that is that is that online or is that a paperwork? It is it is housed online on our website. You can see an online version that's up there um all the time. It's um in the all the campus locations. You can pick up a coffee. There's a house coffee. You can subscribe if you're non Delaware. You can subscribe for twenty dollars a year. And it's just chalk
full of all the activities that are happening on campus off campus. They try to interview a youth or an elder, and we're reaching out across the nation and trying to get an insight of others and trying to tie everybody together and that have that connectivity in that paper. So it's really fun. And this month we had a twenty four page paper. We're working on trying to get lots of new pictures and lots of new activity and if anybody is interested,
then we're happy to even provide ads. So definitely reach out. You can reach out at den at Delaware Tribe dot org and we can ask any questions. This is really cool. Now. One thing that stood out when I first moved to town, this is the first thing I heard about the Delaware Tribe is you have this service. It's vital and it is for families and Children's services. And I came to town four years ago. This is one of the first five or six things I heard about, and it was it
was the tribe doing this. Tell us about it. Yes, the must Violence program is with our Family and Children's Services and it's not just only for our members, but it is for the community, for anyone in Bartlesville. Shanna, do you want to give an update on our FCS. We currently have a new director in FCS and her name is Pamela Wiggins and she is in the process of gaining her footing, but she has an amazing staff that
is absolutely helping her with that. We have a domestic violence program that assists individuals. I'm not going to say women, because it could be men, it could be anybody. But they assist individuals who are in a potentially dangerous situation. They assist them with the ability to file a po they assist them with the ability to obtain housing. They assystem with building resumes, doing what
they need to do to get established and get on their feet. And there are they have many different resources at their fingertips and in order to do that, and if anyone is in need of that service, I would absolutely encourage them to call the twenty four hour hotline at nine one eight three three one seven three four nine and they will absolutely get on board and take care of you. We have someone covering that hotline twenty four hours a day every day,
so in that hotlines more like a lifeline. Do absolutely it can and will in many occasions it has, yes, got people out of situations they didn't ask to be in correct. Oh man, this is great. Folks want to learn more about the Udelaware Tribe of Indians. How do we find out? You can go to Delaware Tribe dot org, which is our website. We have a Facebook page. You can stop by our center at fifty one hundred Tuxedo Boulevard. Again that's at the corner of Tuxedo and Madison.
Ladies, I want to thank you for just a point. That's a lot of information in fifteen minutes, but thanks for giving us the update. Well, thank you for the opportunity and we are happy to be here all right, anytime you want doors open, Ladies, thank you very much, thank you very much, and you