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Saint Kateri Tekakwitha HONOR DANCE Saint Kateri Tekakwitha the Catholic Foundation of Oklahoma HONOR DANCE Celebrates St Saint Kateri Tekakwitha HONOR DANCE Saint Kateri Tekakwitha The Catholic Foundation of Oklahoma HONOR DANCE Celebrates St. Kateri! July 6 Saint John Nepomuk You can leave a legacy of faith for future generations Catholic Church with a permanent endowment for a parish, school Yukon or other ministry through the Catholic Foundation of Oklahoma. Call (405) 721-4115, or go online to www.cfook.org SCHEDULE for more information. Mass: Noon Gourd Dance: 2 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Princess crowning: 4:30 p.m. The Catholic Foundation of Oklahoma Supper break: 5 p.m. - 6 p.m. 7501 Northwest Expressway Grand Entry: 6 p.m. Oklahoma City, OK 73132 Relic veneration: 1 p.m. - 9 p.m. (405) 721-4115 www.cfook.org St. Kateri Tekakwitha Welcome HONOR DANCE Dear Brothers and Sisters in HEAD STAFF Christ, Emcee: Cy Ahtone Head Singer/Drum: Leonard Cozad Jr. Welcome to the Saint Kateri Head Gourd Dancer: Michael Tsotaddle Tekakwitha Honor Dance! It is Head Man Dancer: John Big Horse with great joy that we celebrate Head Lady Dancer: Krystal Caesar the life and witness of this tru- Color Guard: Kiowa Women’s Color Guard ly American saint. Arena Director: T. Kerchi/T-Bone God has blessed the Church in Oklahoma with this oppor- CONTEST DIVISIONS tunity to share our faith and Tiny Tots diverse culture with the entire Sponsored by Ronald and Judith Hawes and community. The Law Offices of Pamela Kennedy Despite illness and hardship in her youth, Kateri felt Teen girls combined the call to conversion and missionary discipleship that Sponsored by the Schonchin Family has been an inspiration to native cultures in North America and for many others over the past 300 years. Teen boys combined We praise and thank God for raising up Saint Kateri’s Sponsored by the Attocknie Family example of holiness for us all. Women’s Fancy Shawl/Jingle Thank you for joining me at the archdiocese’s first-ever Sponsored by Catholic Charities of the honor dance, and may God continue to bless you and Archdiocese of Oklahoma City your family. Saint Kateri, pray for us! Women’s Buckskin/Women’s Cloth Sincerely yours in Christ, Sponsored by Native Oklahoma magazine Men’s Fancy Sponsored by St. Ann Retirement Center Men’s Straight/Traditional/Grass Most Rev. Paul S. Coakley Sponsored by Catholic Mutual Group Archbishop of Oklahoma City Due to time constraints, there will be no specials. SAINT KATERI TEKAKWITHA aint Kateri Tekak- name Kateri, the Mohawk form witha (pronounced of Catherine, which she took Gah-deh-lee in honor of Saint Catherine of Deh-gah-quee- Siena. Her religious decision tah in Mohawk) was not understood by her un- isS the first American Indian cle or the Turtle Clan, but de- to be recognized as a saint by spite the opposition she faced, the Catholic Church. Born in her faith never wavered. Saint 1656 in the Mohawk village of Kateri eventually left her vil- Ossernenon near what is now lage in 1677 and went to Saint Auriesville, N.Y., her mother Francis Xavier of Sault Saint Kahenta was Algonquin and Louis, south of Montreal. She Christian and her father Ken- received Holy Communion on horonkwa was a Mohawk war Christmas Day 1677 and took chief. She was named Tekak- a vow of virginity in 1679. She witha, which means “she who became ill shortly after and puts all things in order.” died on April 17, 1680, at age In 1660, when she was age 24. Upon her death the small- 4, smallpox ravaged her vil- pox scars disappeared from lage. The disease took her par- her face. ents and infant brother and left Saint Kateri with a scarred Saint Kateri was declared face and weakened vision. Her Venerable in 1942 by Pope uncle, Kenhoronkwa’s brother, Pius XII, she was beatified on was made the new chief and June 22, 1980, by Saint John he and his wife adopted her. Paul II and was canonized on The Mohawks moved their Oct. 21, 2012, by Pope Bene- village to Caughnawaga in dict XVI. Quebec, Canada. When she Saint Kateri Tekakwitha was older, her uncle tried to is known as the Lily of the arrange her marriage, but she Mohawks and is recognized refused. She was interested as the patroness of American in learning more about Jesus Indians, ecology, environment, from the Jesuit priests who purity, people in exile and stayed in their village. orphans. Her feast day is July She was baptized on Easter 14 in the United States and Monastery Icons photo Sunday 1676 and given the April 17 in Canada. The inaugural dances with the Comanche Nation Arlene sings church songs in at the National Museum of the the Comanche language, and can American Indian Catholic Outreach princess American Indian in Washington, speak some words and sentences D.C. in Comanche. She is a straight She is a member of the Co- A student and participates in manche Youth advanced classes Arlene Schonchin Dancers, which in her grade. In performs at var- her free time, iss Arlene Linda Jimenez Schonchin, 10, is an enrolled ious schools, or- she plays soccer, member of the Comanche Nation and is from the Klam- ganizations and likes to read and Math, Modoc and Piute tribes. She is a direct descendant events. She has writes fictional of Comanche Chief Wildhorse and Chief Whitewolf (Esa Rosa), and demonstrated short stories. Modoc leader Schonchin John. powwow dances Arlene said, “I Arlene’s parents are Lynn and Jolene at several schools want to be the Schonchin. Her maternal grandparents and international American Indian are Joe and Arlene Jimenez and pater- events, including Catholic Out- nal grandparents are Lynn and Linda Sheppard Air Force Base in Wich- reach Princess because we are Schonchin. Her mother Jolene was the ita Falls, the International Festi- supposed to spread God’s teach- 1988 Comanche Princess and maternal val in Lawton, the Apache Rat- ing to everyone. I will tell other grandmother Arlene Wockmetooah tlesnake Festival in Apache, and Indians about AICO at powwows Jimenez was the 1945 Comanche Palo Duro Canyon in Amarillo. and everywhere I go!” Princess. Her paternal grandmother Linda Lotches Schonchin was the 1960 Klamath Princess. The Comanche Nation Arlene is an active altar server at Blessed Sacrament in Lawton and regularly attends the Cath- Congratulates olic Daughters of the Americas (Saint Jude Chapter). She has been dancing since age 1. She attends numerous Arlene powwows, has been the Head Little Girl Dancer for several pow- wows and has won multiple powwow dance contests in her division. She Schonchin also is a member of the Blessed Sacrament Mexican Youth Group. 2019 American Indian In 2014, Arlene performed the Lord’s Prayer in Native American Sign Language to an audience Catholic Outreach of more than 1,000 people, and demonstrated several powwow Princess rather a shirt and pants ditional Dance is a heavily fringed with powerful and personal Powwow 101 ribbon, yarn or cloth dance of expression. Powwow moving as an extension These dancers move etiquette of the dancer’s body, with extreme grace and owwow dancers attempt to accentuating each of the dancer’s reminiscent of prairie subtlety, keeping their catch the judges’ eyes with athletic movements. The best Fancy grass swaying in the feet close to the ground personal style, footwork dancers are able to make complex Here are some P wind. Some Grass danc- and either moving slow- falling on the beat of the music and movements with regalia falling on tips for attending ers use trick steps that ly forward or bobbing well-made dance attire. A dancer beat with the drum. a powwow: give the appearance that slightly with the beat of can be disqualified if they dance off n Benches are the dancer is off bal- the drum. These simple beat, drop a part of their clothing Men’s Grass Dance set up for danc- ance, only to gracefully steps have their origin during the performance or fail to Marked by quick and fluid move- ers and special recover just in time. in older times when stop with both feet on the ground ments, the Grass Dance is more honorees around women did not dance when the last beat of the drum active than the Men’s Traditional the perimeter of Women’s Fancy Shawl in the arena but stood sounds. A good dancer combines Dance. Grass dancers move by the dance circle. Dance outside the circle and traditional aspects with personal shaking their shoulders, swaying If a seat has a Fancy Shawl dancers kept time with their feet. attitude and individuality. their torsos from the hip and dart- blanket on it, it are recognized by their Dancers wear or carry ing suddenly to change their direc- is reserved; energetic dance style shawls, a sign of modes- Men’s Traditional Dance tion. They do not wear a bustle, but n Guests are in which they seem to ty and respect, and long Men’s Traditional danc- welcome and float around the are- traditional buckskin or ers tell a story with their encouraged to na; their shawls out- cloth dresses. movements: one of hunting, bring chairs; stretched like beautiful tracking, fighting or imitat- n When special wings. Dancers create Women’s Jingle Dress ing the courtship dances of songs are played, this illusion by moving Dance prairie birds. The dancers’ feet everyone stands around the arena on The most musical of stay close to the ground while quietly in re- their toes, kicking high the powwow dances, the their heads and upper bod- spect. The emcee and twirling into the air.
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