The chief has talked about the housing crisis that we have in the Cherokee Reservation. They said, you know, we're not waiting around for the federal government to come and rescue us. Where Cherokees we out front and center. You do the hard work, and we are building communities and homes for people so I'll have a place to live. And I think that's you know, that's what And I know that he's was the Sustainable Housing Act that I think he's dedicated forty million dollars every three years to
the effort of building more homes for Cherokee citizens. Well.
As a realtor, for many, many years, I've been involved in housing and selling housing and trying to find people housing. And last few years I've been involved in building houses down in Katusa, which is Cherokee Nation, right where the hard rock is, and at one point there were a thousand people down there homeless. I'm drive by every day and it was just heartbreaking. I show property all over the Tulsa metro area in northeast Oklahoma, and it is everywhere.
It is a crisis. It's been on the surface for quite a long time. I'm saying, we've just got to go out there and embrace every entity that we can get working together to keep people off the street. We cannot have our Cherokee families out on the street not able to take care of their We don't want.
To see any families out on the street.
Have to make sure they have a place to live, they have food, they have a job. We've all got to step up and work together, and we need to step up now and do it. We can't wait.
Well, Betsy, I want to thank you for appearing on Native Bat. That's been wonderful to have you. What do you see on the horizon now for the any Women's Club.
Well, our club is getting recognition all over. I see them being lead in our community, but also internationally. We'll be getting recognition March the eighth, which is international Weomenn'sday. So I think they are continuing to grow and they'll survive and be leaders forever.
Exactly. Yeah. Well, before we go and make a couple of announcements, the Washington kint of Cherokee Association will have its November meeting. Let's see this November is going to be a November seventh. It's going to be a six pm. We're located just to the east of the Kuskube Health Clinic. We're going to have Daniel Harris of sud Navi and Research Center there to talk about the all Egle revitalization efforts. We're also offering free Cherokee language courses there every Saturday
from ten to noon. November fourteenth, at six pm, the Naffi Native American Fellowship Community in South Konghoo will having a combination District eleven and twelve community meeting that's going to be at six pm once again at their location. The Cherokee Cultural Community in Dewey at seven hundre at East Durham Road. We'll be having its monthly potluck meeting on November twenty first at six pm with a presentation
by the Operation Eagle Dancers. We would also make sure that you catch our friend Chris Crane our Fribrid journeys in the mighty six ninety KGGF. Be sure to check out our Facebook page and tune in to catch the next edition of Native Beat. November eighteenth and nine forty five in the morning. You can catch Native Beat on the Barzil Radio Facebook page. You're on demand to the barzel Radio app, available on the Apple Store the Big Wado,
as we say in Cherokee, Wado. To you, Betsy Swimmer, Wanishi is the Delaware, would say, Wanzi is the Osage would say, And to all of you listening, do to do goganha e, until we meet again.