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Volume 14, Issue 3 • March 2018 The Official Newspaper of the Osage Nation Osage women and girls honored at Wak’on Owatsi Shannon Shaw Duty Osage traditional knowledge, Osage News was a big loss to her fami- ly. Katelynn Pipestem, who The weekend began with a currently attends Oklahoma Friday afternoon tea to cele- State University, said that one brate Osage women and girls. of her studies is suicide pre- They came in their finest, they vention and that Native com- came with hats on, and were munities, and Native women, served tea, tea sandwiches, need to be educated on the scones, cookies, chocolate cov- effects of historical trauma. ered strawberries and other She said that Osage women various desserts. and the community can be a Dr. Moira RedCorn, the life support for many of those daughter of the late Osage au- suffering from depression or thor Charles Red Corn and one being disconnected from their of the organizers, welcomed Native community. all the ladies for attending and offered the microphone to Noon dinner anyone who wished to share a The committee hosted a memory or a story of a strong noon dinner on Saturday, woman in their lives. Feb. 3, at Wakon Iron Hall in One by one, young and old, the Pawhuska Indian Village. women began to tell stories of Traditional Osage dinners are great-grandmothers, grand- usually prepared by women, mothers, head cooks, Osage but in this case, the dinner artisans, Osage leaders, moth- SHANNON SHAW DUTY/Osage News was prepared by Osage men. ers, aunts and sisters. Princi- They served meat gravy, Veronica Pipestem speaks on behalf of the Wak’on Owatsi committee as Marilyn Yarbrough places a blanket pal Chief Geoffrey Standing wild rice, two dishes of squash, on Dr. Moira RedCorn in honor of her commitment to making the dance a success. The social dance in honor Bear stood up and told a story of Osage women and girls was held on Feb. 3 at the Pawhuska Indian Village dance arbor. From left: Jen Tiger, chicken and dumplings, grape about his grandmother. Margaret Sisk, Electa RedCorn (holding daughter Tawali), Yarbrough, Pipestem and RedCorn. dumplings, frybread and var- The tea, held on Feb. 2 in ious desserts. The cooks were the First Baptist Church hall the one-year anniversary of form a committee to plan the culture if a matriarch is lost or Brian and Joe Lookout, of in Pawhuska, was the begin- the death of 26-year-old Blake Wak’on Owatsi. even a young woman. Jacque Ah-Tha-Tse Catering; Ben Ja- ning of a weekend planned Sisk, an aspiring model and Veronica Pipestem, a mem- Butler, who recently lost her cobs, owner of Denver-based ber of the Wak’on Owatsi younger sister Mary Grayce to host the Wak’on Owatsi, actress from the Hominy Dis- Tocabe: An American Indian which translates to “Wom- committee, said that losses in Bighorse, said that a woman’s Eatery; Dr. Robert Warrior, trict. Her early death, in part, en’s Dance,” a social dance to Native communities can affect place in Osage society is very Ryan RedCorn, Assistant is what inspired RedCorn honor Osage women and girls. generations – it can cause a important and that the loss See Wak’on Owatsi The dance was held close to and Dr. Robert Warrior to disconnect from one’s Osage of her sister, along with her —Continued on Page 6 Candidates for Principal Chief debate on scholarships, economic development, water rights, food sovereignty and diplomacy Shannon Shaw Duty Osage News

SKIATOOK, Okla. – Osage Nation Principal Chief Geof- frey Standing Bear and Osage Congresswoman Maria CHALENE TOEHAY-TARTSAH/Osage News Whitehorn took the stage for Assistant Principal Chief Raymond Red Corn and Congressman the Osage News Candidate Otto Hamilton answer questions at the Osage News Candidate De- Debates on Feb. 17 at the bates for Assistant Principal Chief on Feb. 17 at the Osage Casino Osage Casino. in Skiatook. Standing Bear and White- horn are the only two can- didates running for the top Assistant Principal Chief BENNY POLACCA/Osage News spot of the Osage government. Standing Bear and Whitehorn Principal Chief Geoffrey Standing Bear and Congresswoman Maria White- candidates share qualifications, both served as Osage Congress horn answer questions on current issues at the Osage News Candidate members from 2012 to 2014. Debates for Principal Chief on Feb. 17 at the Osage Casino in Skiatook. debate education, economic Standing Bear was elected gress in 2016 with Whitehorn Osage Congress in 2016 and is chief in 2014 and Whitehorn named as the defendant. The the current chair of the Appro- became Speaker of the Osage Osage Supreme Court ruled in priations Committee. development and water rights Congress. Standing Bear suc- favor of Standing Bear. White- Standing Bear, 64, is a for- Benny Polacca cessfully sued the Osage Con- horn was re-elected to the mer attorney with over 30 Osage News years of experience. He served as Assistant Principal Chief for SKIATOOK, Okla. – Osage Nation Assistant Principal Trump administration’s the 28th Osage Tribal Council Chief candidates Otto Hamilton and Raymond Red Corn from 1990-1994. He was elect- fielded questions on various topics during the Osage News ed to the Third Osage Nation Candidate Debates held here on Feb. 17. 2019 budget proposes steep Congress in 2010, served four Red Corn is seeking a second four-year term as Assistant years and then was elected as Principal Chief in the June 4 general election and Hamil- principal chief in 2014. He’s cuts to Indian Country ton, a current ON Congressman, is running for that Exec- married to Julie Brave Stand- utive Branch office for the first time. The debate took place Lenzy Krehbiel-Burton ing Bear and they have four before a crowd of nearly 100 at the Skiatook Osage Casino Osage News children and 10 grandchildren. They live in Pawhuska. Hotel that Saturday afternoon with two volunteers from the Several key programs serving Indian Country are facing Whitehorn, 55, helped her League of Women Voters of Metropolitan Tulsa who moder- steep cuts – or outright elimination – under a budget pro- husband Randy Powell build ated the debate and selected the questions written on pieces posal from the White House. their family businesses and of paper that were drawn from a rotating hopper. On Feb. 12, President Donald Trump released his admin- homeschooled their two sons The written questions came from both the Osage public istration’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2019. Although in Hominy before running for and the Osage News before the event. The moderators also final approval of the federal budget rests with Con- Osage Congress in 2012, ac- kept track of time for the candidates to respond to questions gress, the executive branch’s recommendations are taken cording to her 2012 candidate and to issue rebuttals, if desired, after the two candidates under consideration. announcement. She was elect- initially answered the questions. See Trump See Debates See APC Debate —Continued on Page 8 —Continued on Page 4 —Continued on Page 7

Inside the Osage News Follow the Osage News Online OKC Elects First Native American Mayor...... 3 Serious Discussions at UNIOKT Meeting...... 9 • Breaking news at osagenews.org Candidate Filing Dates for Minerals Council Election. . . . . 3 Six Women First to File as Congressional Candidates . . . . . 9 • facebook.com/osagenews WHC Now Hiring Healthcare Positions...... 8 Energy Column...... 17 • twitter.com/osagenews 2018 Hun-Kah Session Starts...... 8 Obituaries and Classifieds...... 20 • flickr.com/osagenews 2 March 2018 Osage News • osagenews.org Osage News • osagenews.org March 2018 3 Osage man elected as first Native American Mayor of Oklahoma City Shannon Shaw Duty $300 million of legislation sist you in your race? Chief Standing Osage News convention that have be- Bear has publicly said the Nation sup- center, a $131 come law and ported you. David Holt is the first Native Amer- million street- has been espe- DH: “Yes, he was very supportive ican to be elected Mayor of Oklahoma car system cially noted for publicly, and personally, and the Na- City in its 129-year history. And, he did and a $139 his persistent tion is a legal donor. The Nation was it easily. million down- work to im- able to contribute to the campaign fi- town park. In the city’s Feb. 12, primary election, prove gov- nancially and did. I’m very grateful for Mayor is a ernment he won 78.5 percent of the vote (20,409 that. nonpartisan transparency, votes) over his two opponents, Taylor ON: How much did the Nation con- office in Okla- his efforts to M. Neighbors and Randall Smith. tribute? homa City and increase voter Holt, 38, is an Osage tribal member, DH: “I want to say, and I hate to pays $24,000 Courtesy Photo participation, Republican and was elected to the state be wrong on this, but I want to say per year. David Holt with his wife Rachel and their two children, and his legis- Senate in 2010 from Oklahoma City’s $2,000.” Holt earned Margaret and George. lation support- How has your Osage tribal affil- northwest District 30 and is currently ON: a Bachelor of ing women, iation shaped your perspective in pub- serving his second term. He will resign Arts in Political Science from George children, economic growth, and public lic office? from the Senate before he is sworn in Washington University and a Juris education,” according to his profile on DH: “Well, you know I’m like a lot as the 36th Mayor of Oklahoma City on Doctor from Oklahoma City Univer- OKSenate.gov. “His dynamic record in of Osages I bet, in that I was raised April 10, according to NewsOK.com. sity. He is also the author of the 2012 the Senate caused Chuck Todd of NBC outside of Osage County, so I missed His predecessor, Mayor Mick Cor- book, “Big League City: Oklahoma News to name David a ‘Rising Star’ out on a lot of the cultural experiences nett, who was mayor for 14 years, is City’s Rise to the NBA.” in Oklahoma politics. His dedication as a younger person, but I’ve tried to campaigning for governor. Holt served “In the Senate, David has been a to Oklahoma City caused him to be get back in tune with that as an adult. as Cornett’s chief of staff from 2006- diligent legislator focused on the most named ‘OKCityan of the Year’ in 2017.” For example, I was very honored as an 2010. According to NewsOK.com, Holt important issues facing Oklahoma Osage News: Do you plan to make a adult to be the emcee of the first Inau- will oversee the completion of a nearly families. He has authored 72 pieces run for governor in 2022? guration of the new government after David Holt: (laughs) “No, I don’t the passage of the new Constitution, think so I’m just excited to be the may- about a decade ago. I’ve tried to take Osage County Commissioners appeal or. Isn’t that enough? I haven’t even other opportunities to be involved with been sworn in yet. I’m excited about the culture of our tribe and so I think this job, that’s all I’m focused on.” it shapes me more as an adult to feel a Osage Nation’s non-gaming fee-to-trust ON: Have you reached out to any part of that experience, the American Osage constituents in Oklahoma City Indian experience in general and the prior to your election? application for 75 acres in north Tulsa Osage experience specifically. I think DH: “You know I didn’t really have it has a unique resonance here in that Shannon Shaw Duty from the Transportation Improvement a list. No, I guess is the answer. I hope Oklahoma City is the largest city and Plan $5,650,000 worth of funds from they somehow got the word that an Osage News the capitol city of the state of Okla- county and Nation cooperative projects. Osage was running for mayor. They are Osage County Commissioners voted Standing Bear said after the vote he always welcome to contact me.” See Mayor to send a letter of appeal to the BIA op- consulted with the Nation’s Attorney ON: How did the Osage Nation as- —Continued on Page 6 posing the Osage Nation’s non-gaming General and they have retained attor- fee-to-trust application for 75 acres of ney Phil Baker-Shenk, who specializ- land just north of the Nation’s flagship es in fee-to-trust cases, who works for casino in north Tulsa. Washington D.C.-based law firm Hol- The commissioners, Jerry Howerton land & Knight. (District 1, Pawhuska), Kevin Pasley Assistant Principal Chief Raymond (District 2, Skiatook) and Darren McK- Red Corn, who was at the Feb. 5 meet- inney, who is an Osage tribal member ing, said the 75-acre property is slated (District 3, Fairfax), voted 2-0 with to become part of the larger airpark one abstention on Feb. 5. The agenda property where companies can test and item was proposed by Osage Coun- demonstrate aircraft and could also be ty District Attorney Rex Duncan and a potential location for future offices McKinney made the motion for the and manufacturing. vote. He and Pasley voted ‘yes’ and Putting land into trust is when the Howerton abstained. title of the land is transferred to the “This vote has set back our relations United States to keep in trust for the with the county by years,” said Prin- benefit of a federally-recognized tribe. cipal Chief Geoffrey Standing Bear, Once in trust, only federal and tribal who promptly issued an order to the See Appeal Nation’s Roads Department to remove —Continued on Page 6

Osage News The Osage Minerals Council Chambers on the Osage Nation Campus in Pawhuska. Candidate filing period for Osage Minerals Council begins March 1 and ends March 29 Osage News Minerals Council the candidate’s name must appear on the quarterly annuity Eight seats on the Fourth Osage roll of the Osage Agency and they must Minerals Council are up for election on have a CDIB card that shows the per- June 4. Those interested in running for son is of lineal descent from the 1906 the OMC can file their candidacy start- Osage Allotment roll. Candidates must ing March 1 through March 29. be 18 years of age on or before election According to OMC Election Supervi- day. Candidates must also have re- sor Billie Ponca, the fee to file is $100 ceived a minerals royalty income from and candidates can file at the Osage the Osage Minerals Estate the previ- Nation Election Office at 608 Kihekah in downtown Pawhuska. Ponca and ous March of election day. volunteers will be accepting applica- tions for candidacy from 9 a.m. to 4:30 Voting p.m., Monday through Friday. Voters must be 18 years of age or over on election day. They must pos- Eligibility sess a CDIB card showing their Osage Running for the Osage Minerals ancestry, and the voter’s name must Council has different requirements be on the quarterly annuity roll of the than the Osage Nation General Elec- See Filing tion. To run for office in the Osage —Continued on Page 6

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Osage News Editorial Board Members Jerri Jean Branstetter Lu King Teresa Trumbly Lamsam 4 March 2018 Osage News • osagenews.org Debates –from Page 1 ed to the Fourth Osage Nation Congress in 2012. Moderating the debate was Michael Patton, board mem- ber for the League of Women Voters of Metropolitan Tulsa and Mary Jane Lindaman, board member for the League of Women Voters of Oklahoma. Each candidate was giv- en two minutes for opening remarks, three minutes to BENNY POLACCA/Osage News answer each question, one Principal Chief Geoffrey Standing Bear and Congresswoman Maria White- minute for rebuttal or addi- horn answer questions on current issues at the Osage News Candidate CHALENE TOEHAY-TARTSAH/Osage News Debates for Principal Chief on Feb. 17 at the Osage Casino in Skiatook. tional comments and two min- Mary Jane Lindaman from the League of Women Voters of Oklahoma utes for a closing statement. and private entities. His hopes son-Reyes through his ded- holds up a 30-second time card, alerting the candidates they had 30 sec- The candidates were asked are to develop a private school ication to seed preservation onds left to answer their question. eight questions. for Osage students, pre-K and his work with Braiding proof is right there, go see it, the one thing I feel like that through 12th grade. “How can the Sacred. Food sovereignty it’s at Bird Creek Farms.” is one of the most important Opening remarks we make change today, for the is important to her, “A Nation things the Osage people do to Standing Bear made his re- future? The answer was there that cannot feed itself is going Third question make a difference in people’s marks first, listing the accom- all the time, our children. Fif- to fail, through time immemo- “How important is it to bring lives and I’m not about to pull plishments his administration ty years in the future, right rial.” She said she is in favor her Higher Education Scholar- it away.” has made the past four years. there, that’s how we change of an Osage Nation Agricultur- ship recipients back to Osage Standing Bear said no one is “You have elected me to put us our nation.” al Cooperative, where Native Nation following graduation? pulling the scholarships away, back on track. I have done that Whitehorn said the Nation seeds can be preserved and What is the plan of action to get they want to enhance it and and more.” He spoke about currently funds three pro- stored, Osage farmers can buy these graduates working with- use it in a smart way. He said his priorities for Osages first, grams for pre-school and she in to the cooperative. She said in the tribe?” –Rachel Black- $8,100,000 goes to the scholar- Osage families and especially agrees that the Immersion it’s just an idea at this time, well, Skiatook, OK ship program. In 2018, today children. He has focused on ed- school “is top notch, it abso- but it would be something all Standing Bear said his ad- we have 1,400 Osage students ucation and during his tenure lutely is.” She said a missing Osages could participate in. ministration has been talking using that money. “We have has developed the Osage Lan- component the Nation needs She knows Bird Creek Farms about that for the last four over $9,000 a year per student. guage Immersion School. Es- to work on is nurturing Osage currently provides food, but months. The Nation spends If you go to school and make tablished Bird Creek Farms, families. “Our children can she doesn’t see the farm as a over $8 million a year on the a 2.0, just being Osage, you community gardens and pro- come to great schools, but un- government program or hiring Higher Education Scholarship get the money. What we need duced healthy food. His ad- less we have a really strong a person to provide food. She program, which is currently to do is take a look at how we ministration led the charge family component to help build sees it as a project and initia- administered by Scholarship use it, for example: if you go to to compact the Wah-Zha-Zhi families, to say how important tive that interested Osages America. “We need to make law school, $9,000 a semester Health Clinic, putting it under it is for families to sit down who want to do that can tap it go further, we need profes- may be great enough, it is for the Nation’s control. The pur- and read to their children and into. She said the cooperative sionals to be funded and we many ... for an undergraduate chase of the Bluestem Ranch, be there for their children, could develop into a store. don’t have the money to do it. degree. But if you go to law the casino expansion of the we need to get better in that Standing Bear said they What we’ve been looking at is school, medical fields, engi- Nation’s flagship casino in area.” However, she said the have a government program a program similar to Cherokee neering, they need more help. north Tulsa and noted that un- lack of funding the Nation has called Bird Creek Farms. Af- Nation, and other programs, We need to provide them more der his leadership Osages are for these initiatives is trouble- ter he was elected in 2014 they where there is a commitment funds. Again, you get some- in executive positions for the some. The Immersion facility is took an inventory of lands. In from the recipients, either to one who makes a 2.1, doesn’t casinos and the Nation’s gov- at capacity she said and maybe his career he has had to read come back or if they live in care about the Osage and just ernment employees. “We have one more grade can squeeze many legal descriptions of California or some other place, takes our money, we have to gone from only 38 percent of into it but half of the budget lands and he noticed the Na- to provide community service address that.” employees being Osage or mar- runs on a grant fund that’s tion owned land along Bird to show some payback to the Whitehorn said the Osage ried to an Osage, to today, 62 not going to be renewable. “We Creek. An Osage farmer had money that has been received.” Constitution dictates what is a percent. We have moved from don’t have tribal dollars right been farming the land for 20 They are still studying other member of the Osage Nation. a minority to majority.” now to extend further, to build years prior to the discovery. tribes to see how their schol- “Whether we agree with that Whitehorn said as a member a bigger building, we need to “We put together a wonder- arship programs work and he or not, whether we think that of Congress, “I have always put see the plan, we need to have ful program and it’s only been knows the discussion is going Osages who don’t live here in your needs and the thoughts this talk within our govern- three and a half years since on in the Osage Congress as Osage County aren’t caring for Osage people first.” She ment about how we’re going to we put this together,” he said. well. “We’ve got to find a way Osages. I don’t know how to said the Congress has been carry this out into the future.” There are four employees, he’s to transition into it, we don’t determine that. I don’t know very good about managing the She said she has asked for a how to determine who is a car- met with them twice and other just want to implement it money for the benefits that are feasibility study, for the plan ing Osage and who is not a car- staff just in the past two weeks overnight.” He said the Nation administered and distributed and there isn’t one. “We’re not ing Osage.” and they are looking at how to needs to do something about to Osage members. She said communicating about these is- take the next step forward to sending money to Osages in that while on Congress she sues. We’ve had to cash in CDs become self-sustaining. There another state, who have nev- Fourth question has seen there are things with- to make our budget this year. er had anything to do with the “On day one of your second in the Osage government that These are the things you don’t are community gardens Osag- Osage, take the money and term in office or new term, are inefficient and that there hear, things that I see that we es can grow their produce in, never have anything to do with what will be your number one are ways to be better with the need to work on to move the there is a pumpkin patch for Osage again. We have to de- priority concerning the Osage money the Nation has. She nation forward.” kids in the fall, a monarch but- velop some way to connect this Nation?” –Billy Keene, Skia- was elected Speaker of the Standing Bear said, “there terfly habitat, bee hives and scholarship money with the took, OK Congress in 2014 and served are plans, there are good plans the children from the Osage Nation. Because if people are Whitehorn said her num- as Speaker until 2016. She and they are being pursued ev- WELA programs and Immer- just going to take this money ber one priority on day one is now chairs the Appropriations ery day by good Osage people sion school have planted flow- and this is just a money thing to get with the Osage Nation Committee. Her job as chair that have the future in their ers and vegetables at the farm. for them, when others are here workforce. “We have so many is to make sure the Nation is minds.” Two examples he said He’s reached out to the Univer- and they want to be a nurse smart, independent thinking spending its money in an ef- are the Immersion team and sity of Arkansas and they have and they want to come back Osage and I want to nurture ficient manner and she said the Grants and Compliance a large grant to assist tribes in and work in our clinic, they what we have up on the hill. I she would bring that exper- team are applying for more developing food codes, so the want to be a doctor, an engi- see them in the audience, who tise to the Executive Branch. grants, this is normal admin- Nation can sell its own food. neer, some profession to help have come back to work for us, She wants to put an end to istration activities, he said. Whitehorn said she is fully us, we ought to recognize that because they care about how initiatives being proposed and We have a teacher develop- aware of Bird Creek Farms and give them some incentive their government serves you.” there is no plan on how the ini- ment plan being developed and has funded it and support- to come back.” She wants the employees to tiative is going to extend into by Osages where Osage lan- ed it. She said she supports Whitehorn said if she is know they can approach her the future. guage teachers will interact food sovereignty but also sup- elected chief this is something with ideas and she will listen with Osage students, a team ports those Osage not in the she has thought about. She to them and work on solutions. planning curriculum, healthy Osage government system to First question said when she goes to the Cal- She wants to put people in a food initiatives, preparing aid them in supporting them- “In our Constitution it says ifornia meetings, parents more job where their skill set bene- those initiatives for private selves also. “I think our poli- we have a duty to our children. overwhelmingly, and some- fits the Osage people the most. grant foundations. cy should extend to all Osage We currently have Immersion times students, thank her for “We need to learn how to work Whitehorn answered she is members who want to be a and WELA for our children, the scholarship money their together, we need to learn how aware the Immersion staff is part of food programs, I think what is your vision for the fu- child has received. “That’s an to communicate and we need presently working on a teach- a cooperative is a good way to ture of our Osage children’s Osage way. Our old people, to learn how to cooperate.” er development grant, “which go with that.” She supports early childhood programs?” – when the government schools She said she has heard time is depended on whether we that the food grown at Bird Aleacia Newby, Owasso, OK opened, they wanted our kids and time again that under the get awarded that money or Creek Farms goes to Title VI, Standing Bear said that to get an education and they Standing Bear administra- the head start programs, but implementing education ini- not.” The people that work backed that and pushed them tion ideas are not welcome. “It she wants to develop policy to tiatives for Osage youth is a at the Immersion school are to do that. We’re an educated makes me sad for my Osage extend it out to all Osages, so priority. The Head Start pro- the “work horses” of the pro- people and we should honor people, sad for the ones that grams for the Nation are 100 gram, they are educated, and they can benefit as well. that,” she said. Her idea is to work there that spend their percent federally funded. He they believe in the school, she Standing Bear said after his start small with what they time for the Osage.” She said said they have improved the said. Where we’re failing is team develops the food codes can do and currently there is there would be a planning pe- teacher to student ration at the plans that Chief Standing and puts the policies and pro- a six-month internship pro- riod with employees, enter into the WELA facilities and the Bear has told you there are no cedures in place, they want to gram built into the Higher a planning phase, and move Immersion School for one one has seen those plans. If use federally money to even- Education Scholarship where forward together to build a teacher for every six students. Congress could see those plans tually have their own store, students can come back and better nation. They provide curriculum that and we could have a discussion where they can sell the pro- work for the Nation. She said Standing Bear said his ad- incorporate Science, Tech- about where we’re moving this duce coming out of Bird Creek there has been talk of limiting ministration just completed a nology, Engineering, Art and in the future, then we could Farms. The store will be in the scholarships to Osages in review of where the Nation is Math, as well as the Osage do some financial planning to Pawhuska and they will sell some way during the Stand- in the 25-year Strategic Plan. language and Osage culture. be able to carry this out and food to the public, but in order ing Bear administration, to ei- “I can tell you the report is “This is the first this has ever we won’t have the stress of to do that the food codes have ther make it be competitive or that this administration has happened, and yes, it is exten- appropriations of how we’re to be in place. “We’re building based on someone has to come completed, or substantially sive, but it is such quality that going to accomplish this for that system now and once it’s back and serve, like an Indian completed, 90 percent of it. we have a tremendous waiting our people.” complete we’ll take it to the Health Service scholarship. The 10 percent that has not list. Here in Skiatook alone, we Congress and we hope for their Currently, there is no “I am been completed is in our Min- have had 73 students on the Second question full support. These kinds of opposed to making it a compet- erals Council and our Miner- waiting list.” He said once he “How would you address the projects have to be carried for- itive scholarship. I am proud als Estate,” he said. On day took office in 2014 he and his need for the development of ward with a vision, and a plan - as Speaker I got to sign our one if he is re-elected, his staff staff began researching other policies that define and protect and with people who know how commendations for our grad- will take a look at where the tribe’s immersion schools. He our traditional food ways as a to execute. Ideas are great, but uates and I didn’t know how Nation is “and we can do that said the WELA and Immer- sovereign nation?” –Keir John- to do it you have to show up that would affect me until I sat because we are organized. It sion School need more fund- son-Reyes, Placerville, CA for work, and you have to work down at my desk to sign them: wasn’t organized when I took ing. He plans to work with Whitehorn said she has all the time for the people, and bachelors, juris doctorate de- See Debates the Congress for funds, grants come to know Keir John- that’s what we’ve done. The grees, master’s degrees. That’s —Continued on Page 5 Osage News • osagenews.org March 2018 5

together a team to work specif- there is also tribal economic Debates ically on water rights. development and “we haven’t –from Page 4 Whitehorn said that the Na- done that either.” She said tion is now in a situation that the ON Historic Preservation office (in 2014). We can quickly is going to take legal defense. office has a “great” workflow assess where we are now and She referenced when the Na- model that can be applied to the directions we want to go.” tion began suing wind energy many other ON departments He said the 25-year Strategic companies and that she was and provides contract work to Plan and goals are guides that behind the chief taking legal other entities and that money move his administration for- action. But she said moving comes back to the Nation. She ward. “We want to continue forward the Nation needs to said if elected she would have where we are today on educa- engage with the local, county an Economic Develop Special- tion, taking care of our chil- and state politicians “with di- ist in her cabinet that will help dren, making sure the health plomacy.” She said she didn’t the Nation succeed. fund is fully funded, and the know who the person in the Standing Bear said he has education fund is fully fund- Standing Bear administration not put more money into the ed and how can we use these that was fielding those types Osage LLC or the Tallgrass monies better.” He said 11,000 of Public Relations issues, Economic Development LLC. Osages take part in the Health but “I can talk to people.” She He said more than $20 million Benefit Plan, which costs the BENNY POLACCA/Osage News said she can surround herself has gone into both entities com- Nation roughly $9.3 million with lawyers and that when bined without a $1 in return. From left: Mary Jane Lindaman from the League of Women Voters of each year. What if all 21,000 Chief Standing Bear drilled “I’ve appointed new board Oklahoma, Michael Patton from the League of Women Voters of Metro- Osages want to start taking the water well on trust land members, who are Osages, politan Tulsa and Osage News Editor Shannon Shaw Duty at the Osage part in the program? He said in Skiatook, she said that and are very strong and capa- News Candidate Debates for Principal Chief on Feb. 17 at the Osage Casi- they have to sit down and was a calculated move to in- ble. To this day we do not have no in Skiatook. think about how they are going vite the Osage News to the a financial statement where to ensure each Osage is guar- ship” with the Tinker Airforce help. Some of you sitting out photo op and that she was in- those entities are. This new anteed that money. He said Base. Lt. Gen. Lee Levy and here have helped me when I vited to the photo op and did board is hard at work getting the Nation’s permanent fund, their staff, “we are opening needed to engage you. It’s all not go. “He knew we weren’t that done for the first time.” which currently has $30 mil- doors for our LLCs” after they about planning, it’s all about ready to drill that well and He said he approved $3.5 mil- lion in it to guarantee benefits are reorganized, he said. Chris knowing the needs of your peo- put that out there in public. lion going to Bluestem Ranch needs to be tripled, the Nation Benge, who is the Chief of ple and how to best serve them And here we are, we did not at the request of the Congress. needs to buy more land and Staff for Oklahoma Gov. Mary and I feel very confident in my exercise diplomacy.” He said he wouldn’t put more put it into trust “even though Fallin, we have a good work- ability to do so.” Standing Bear said he has money into Osage LLC or TED we have opposition every- ing relationship and I speak a good relationship with the LLC until the Congress agrees where,” and the Nation needs with him on gaming. He also Oklahoma Attorney General to go along with modeling the Eighth question to defend its water rights “and has relationships with the Mike Hunter, who is negotiat- economic business arm of the “President Donald Trump is how we can win those and take Tulsa Chamber of Commerce, ing the water rights issue with Nation after the Chickasaw proposing serious cuts to feder- on those challenges. I believe plus businesses and attor- al programs in his 2019 budget ON Attorney General Hol- Nation. He said they make neys he has met and worked I am the right person to take li Wells. He said the Nation $2.4 billion a year on their that will directly affect Indian on those challenges. I don’t be- with throughout his 40-year Country. Programs like the has been waiting for years to businesses. “I think that’s a career in law. “We have re- lieve there is a better person in Johnson O’Malley program, claim its water rights and it’s pretty good model to follow.” cently hired Vince Logan as the country to lead the Osage Indian Community Develop- something that should have He said good people have tried our financial advisor. Logan Nation on those challenges.” ment Block Grant, Low In- been done a long time ago. “We to make the LLC’s work, but just left the administration of Whitehorn said she has not come Home Energy Assistance are not in any lawsuits with they didn’t have a chance be- the former president as the seen anything on paper that Program could be eliminated. the state of Oklahoma. I don’t cause the Congress “controls Special Trustee for Indian Af- suggests the Standing Bear ad- If President Donald Trump’s know where that came from? and approves” the Articles of fairs. We have relationships ministration has completed 90 budget cuts come to fruition, It doesn’t exist. The Minerals Organization and the Articles through Vince that none of percent of the Strategic Plan. how will you handle the loss of Estate has a case on the wind of Operation for both entities. us here have.” He said Margo How the Executive Branch these programs for the Osage farms and they’re doing a good “We’ve got to free up these Gray, who has relationships approaches completion of the people?” –Osage News job. We’re not in a lawsuit on businesses from Congress con- throughout the business world 25-year Strategic Plan is not Whitehorn said federal bud- gaming, we’re not in a lawsuit trol. You can’t run a business in Indian Country, has gotten done from a base of planning, get cuts by the Trump admin- on water, and we’re not in a and say they’re independent the Osage meetings with the she said. A priority in the plan istration is something they’ve lawsuit on this action on them when you’re approving their Chickasaw Nation. is economic development and discussed for a long time since blocking us on fee to trust.” He Articles of Operation. When Whitehorn said she has de- gaming is the Nation’s number they saw him take office. “All said he is in communication they want to amend some- veloped relationships and that one revenue. She said Stand- the Congress (Osage) can do with Osage County District thing, what do they have to she’s “not going to throw out a ing Bear has said the economic is plan appropriations and Attorney Rex Duncan. He said do? Go to the Congress. That is bunch of names.” She said she arm of the Osage Nation would choose not to appropriate mon- he knows these lawyers and not the way Chickasaw Nation has the ability to talk to people, be put under a super board and ey. If we don’t have it or if we their capabilities, if you have runs it.” she has the skills of diploma- it hasn’t happened. She said think the appropriation is too someone in office who doesn’t Whitehorn said the Chicka- cy, she knows how to surround they talked about it during a high. In my opinion, it’s the Ex- then a lot of money is going saw Nation does not have an herself with the right people. Congressional Special Session ecutive office that casts those to be spent on attorneys. “We LLC Act, the Nation does, and She knows how to research and in January but “discussions budgets and the responsibility have a great team and we’re she believes the Chickasaw take information in to make fell apart.” to be looking at what’s going to negotiating. We are negotiat- form their companies under good decisions. She accompa- Standing Bear said an Osage happen three years down the ing on every aspect. I lead the Oklahoma state laws. She said nied Chief Standing Bear on Nation delegation went to the road.” She said, “There is no negotiating team on gaming, they start their subsidiary a trip to Washington during Chickasaw Nation, including new money coming in to us,” for the Osage Nation. I’m us- companies out with $50,000. the legislative session of the Whitehorn and Speaker of the and the debt incurred by pur- ing all my experience ... we’re She said she has never ap- National Congress of Amer- Congress Angela Pratt, and chasing the Bluestem Ranch going to expand gaming in the proved “one cent” to Osage ican Indians a few years ago they saw for themselves var- and the Tulsa Osage Casino Osage, more games and make LLC or TED LLC. “Because when she was Speaker. They ious models of business and expansion. “If I am chief, that more money.” they haven’t shown me they met with legislators, including policy the Nation could devel- is one of the things I want to Whitehorn said she didn’t were doing business. I have Sen. Ted Barrasso, who was op for economic development. do, is plan. Where are we going say the Nation was in a law- never been able to see their the chair of the Senate Com- He said on the Osage Nation’s to be three years from now? suit. She said the Nation was business, their overhead’s too mittee on Indian Affairs and website, front page, is a snap in a situation where they high, and I’ve never seen them engaged in a very long conver- What are we looking at in the shot of the 25-year Strategic were having to engage attor- doing business.” If the 8(a) sation about NEPA and I told federal realm for our funding? Plan. He said the Nation needs neys when matters could have businesses fail “that will be a him I wanted our Minerals We’re not doing that. Or if we to build on its land, language been solved on the front end black mark on the Osage that Council to follow up on these are doing that it’s not being and history. The Osage Nation with diplomacy instead of on will follow us around for 10 issues. “I’m not intimidated shared with the body that ap- Museum needs to be doubled the back end with attorneys. years. We won’t be able to tap by those doors in Washington, propriates the dollars to serve in size. The water rights issue is near into that resource again.” D.C., and when need-be I’ll be you. Because that communica- and dear to her heart, she Standing Bear said a lot of knocking on those doors, I’ll tion doesn’t happen. I promise Fifth question said. She served on the Water money can be made with the be putting those issues out in you, that communication will “Recently the Osage County Rights Task Force, along with mineral estate. He said they front of the people where they happen. Congress will have a Commissioners voted to appeal Standing Bear who was chair. met with top international need to be because you hire plan of where I want to go in the Nation’s fee-to-trust ap- She said there were compre- managers and analysts and people to help you with that. three years.” plication for 75 acres in north hensive plans to engage the they said “the Osage is leaving I’ll represent you when some- Standing Bear said the Tulsa. If you are elected Chief, water rights in Osage County, a lot of money on the table in one is needed to represent us Trump administration budget how would you handle this but those plans have not hap- so many different ways. We on a government-to-govern- was just submitted and there situation moving forward?” – pened. can take our oil in kind. We ment dealing. I’m very confi- were substantial cuts in sever- Osage News can take our oil and get the dent I can step through the al key areas. Johnson O’Mal- Standing Bear said he spent Sixth question value of it as it is refined down door for the Osage people that ley’s been mentioned for a 100 nearly four decades prosecut- “As some people may know, the road instead of where will make you proud,” she said. percent cut, he said. “We have ing civil crimes, civil actions, our oil wells will not last for- we’re taking it now.” He said Standing Bear said after he already analyzed what this “and any other civil matter ever, and may run dry in the the Nation could model after was elected he sought out a means for the Osage, of course you can expect.” He has been very near future. My question the Southern Ute, where they longtime friend, attorney Da- we have plans, of course we in many negotiations, he was for the candidates is that what have taken their natural gas vid Mullon, he spent 11 years have plans for this year, next general legal counsel for the other sources of income and fields and turned it into a $4.5 as counsel for the Senate Com- year, the year after,” he said. Oklahoma Indian Gaming As- revenue have you looked into billion asset. mittee on Indian Affairs, he He said last year the Nation sociation, “I was the first per- for our people to benefit from?” worked for Wilma Mankiller, joined other tribes in Congress son to file a case in gaming on – Noah Shadlow, Hominy, OK Seventh question the Creek Nation, and sought to oppose the proposed budget 1984 on behalf of an Indian Whitehorn said the Nation “The responsibilities of being him out at the NCAI where and they were successful. “We tribe. I know all about conflict has “failed miserably” at eco- a tribal chief is similar to the he was general legal counsel. plan on doing the very same on these things and I’ve prov- nomic development and that position of a CEO of a Fortune I told him the Osage did not thing this year,” he said. “We’re en I can win on these things, Standing Bear said in 2014 500 company. It’s important want to spend a ton of money on top of it, we’re following a and I have.” He said the recent that he was going to organize to be knowledgeable on many in Washington on attorneys plan. We’re doing what has to actions by the county com- and move forward. “We hav- levels, both internally and ex- and because he’s my friend, be done.” He said the proof is missioners was short sighted en’t done that, all we’ve done ternally. Having established, he informed him that he was in all the accomplishments his and “it’s about property taxes is eaten ourselves into a bigger long-term relationships on the leaving NCAI and he wanted administration has made. when we could replace those whole.” She supports econom- local, state and national level to be the Nation’s attorney and Whitehorn said she didn’t property taxes with econom- ic development and she sees for promoting initiatives, and that he would do it “at minimal know if she could ask to see ic development and there has other tribes moving ahead. the protection of our sovereign- cost.” Standing Bear said he is Standing Bear’s plan because been a threat to block us on She said it takes communica- ty is key. Can you please give also a longtime friend of John she would request it be sub- Bluestem Ranch for putting tion, cooperation, a plan and some examples of relationships Tahsuda, who is currently the mitted to the Osage Congress it back into trust.” He said his a vision and that hasn’t hap- that you have developed that Assistant Secretary of the De- to see how the Nation is going administration has hired the pened yet. She said the first have assisted the nation?” – partment of Interior. to address these funding cuts best attorney in the country for step is salvaging the Nation’s Jeff Bailey, Tulsa, OK Whitehorn said she knows “instead of crossing our fingers fee-to-trust issues and that he 8(a) contracting. The Nation Standing Bear said he has Mullon and has a relation- that it doesn’t happen.” She has cleared up a lot of misun- has people employed to “nur- formed relationships with ship with him and trusts him. reiterated her stance that she derstandings and put togeth- ture” the companies owned by Oklahoma AG Mike Hunter, She said Mullon would work believes the Executive Branch er a negotiating team. When the Nation but “this adminis- that when Hunter learned of for any chief that hired him. and the Legislative Branch it came to the issue of water tration” hasn’t done anything the Nation’s plans for their She said relationships are de- have to communicate, cooper- rights, his relationship with with those companies and the water rights, they spoke on veloped and then nurtured ate and work together on these Oklahoma AG Mike Hunter al- Nation is in danger of losing the phone and agreed to meet through good communication. budgetary issues. lowed the Nation to enter into them. “This is a struggle that and talk about the issues. He “All of my life I’ve been able See Debates negotiations and they have put we’re going to face.” She said has a “deep personal relation- to engage people when I need —Continued on Page 22 6 March 2018 Osage News • osagenews.org

Three children enjoy hot chocolate from the refreshments bar that in- cluded hot tea, coffee, cakes, scones, and sandwiches.

tem made the drum that was Wak’on used for the Wak’on Owatsi. All photos by SHANNON SHAW DUTY/Osage News watsi He also composed a song that The Wak’on Owatsi Dance for Women and Girls was held on Feb. 3 at the Pawhuska Indian Village dance arbor. O will belong to that drum for More than 50 dancers participated in the dance. –from Page 1 the dance in years to come. Principal Chief Raymond Red from members of the commu- RedCorn invited all the Corn, Gage McKinley and Ted nity were also given. attendees, which were ap- and Dillon Moore. There were Wak’on Owatsi proximately 200, to take any many young men helping the The dance took place fol- leftover cloth napkins with the cooks serve as well. All the lowing the noon dinner under Wak’on Owatsi logo on them. men wore aprons with the the Pawhuska Indian Village dance arbor. It began at 2 p.m. Wak’on Owatsi logo on them, “We just wanted to be able to with Osage Language Instruc- which was designed by Osage give everybody something,” she said. tor, Alaina Maker, praying in artist Addie Roanhorse. Osage before the dance began. After the dinner Dr. Moira Osage Casinos, the Osage The temperature was in the RedCorn thanked all the men Nation Foundation, the Mil- low to mid-50’s, prompting who helped and gave them all lion Dollar Inn, each gave all the women to wear their a gift, and then presented a sponsorships for the tea, noon Pendleton and ribbonwork gift to Rock Pipestem. Pipes- dinner and meal. Donations blankets. More than 20 danc- ers dressed in their tradition- al Osage clothes while more than 50 danced in blankets and shawls. The dance committee brought heaters for the attend- ees and between songs dancers would stand under the heaters to keep warm. There was also a refreshments table for attend- ees where sandwiches, scones, cookies and cakes were served, along with hot chocolate, hot tea, water and coffee. The dance ended at 5 p.m. with a prayer in the Osage language The Wak’on Owatsi Dance for Women and Girls was held on Feb. 3 at the by Pipestem. Pawhuska Indian Village dance arbor. More than 50 dancers participated Director for the Nation’s in the dance. Family Violence Prevention department, Olivia “Libbi” last night. Great food, fellow- The workshop was tender. The Gray, thanked RedCorn for ship, uplifting words and lots tea held the day before the the event on the dance’s Face- of love for Osage Women. The dance had the emotional depth book page: “Thank you for this Ladies with the hats were very that grief opens and the ten- Moira RedCorn. This is going special. It was a very classy derness that hope brings.” to be a beautiful day, even if event. Thank you to everyone The Wak’on Owatsi commit- it’s cold, the intention behind putting it together. Looking tee is made up of Dr. Moira this dance is what will make forward to the next one.” RedCorn, Dr. Robert Warrior, the day beautiful. Doing some- Oregon-based Osage writer Veronica Pipestem, Rock Pipe- thing like this to celebrate our Ruby Hansen Murray posted stem, Margaret Sisk, Ryan and women and girls, to bring con- on her personal Facebook page Electa RedCorn, Julie O’Keefe, fidence and strength to those about the tea and dance: “I Angela Pratt, Jen Tiger, Ruth of us who may be struggling came home for Wak’on Owatsi, Shaw, Addie Roanhorse, Zeke with that is really needed. Cre- women’s dance, honoring the and Marilyn Yarbrough. ating a safe and positive space strength of Osage women and For more information on the for women to celebrate one an- offered a workshop related to Wak’on Owatsi, visit the web- other is a wonderful thing that Gina Gray’s art. This is a time site at www.wakonowatsi.com. is not often thought of.” of loss in the Osage, the one- [Editor’s Note: Ruth Shaw is Osage Hominy resident and year anniversary of a young the mother of Osage News Ed- Teresa Bates Rutherford and Beverly Brownfield dance at the Wak’on retiree, Jewell Purcell, post- woman’s early death, as well itor Shannon Shaw Duty and Owatsi Dance for Women and Girls on Feb. 3, held at the Pawhuska Indi- ed on the page about the tea: as early deaths from illness of serves on the Wak’on Owatsi an Village dance arbor. “Certainly enjoyed the evening beloved Osage elders, artists. committee.]

ment are ongoing in light of plication on Jan. 9. According Appeal the information the Osage to the letter, any appeal filed Filing –from Page 3 Nation has provided them,” he against the Nation’s application –from Page 3 jurisdiction will govern over said. “We’re hopeful that we will be taken into consideration the land instead of state law can get to a cooperative footing by the BIA Eastern Oklahoma Osage Agency as of the last quarterly payment immediately and it becomes untaxable. The where we all work together for Regional Director. preceding the date of election, according to Ponca. county would lose about $6,000 the benefit of Osage County.” The eastern regional office “Each voter shall be entitled to cast one ballot and each in property taxes per year. Commissioner Pasley’s as- received the commissioners’ ballot shall have the same value as the voter’s headright Red Corn said in the last sistant said he was out of appeal on Feb. 12. The sole interest shown on the last quarterly annuity roll,” according 10 years the Nation has giv- town, Howerton did not return reason cited was the impact to a prepared statement. “Any fraction of a headright, how- ever, shall be valued as to the first two decimals only unless en an average of $5.4 million a request for comment and of loss of ad valorem tax- such interest is less than one-hundredth of a share, then it per year in funding to Osage Commissioner McKinney said es, or property taxes, which shall have its full value.” County, and that doesn’t he did not want to go on the Standing Bear said was in the Election Day is June 4 and the voting period is from 8 count the $1.6 million in pro- record, but the issue was being amount of about $6,000. a.m. to 8 p.m. at the Osage Minerals Council chambers on duction tax revenue that further discussed. “The application was for the Osage Nation Campus in Pawhuska. The Osage News is also funds Osage County Osage Agency Superinten- non-gaming purposes. It would also hosting Candidate Debates for Osage Minerals Council schools and roads. dent Robin Phillips hand deliv- have brought hundreds of jobs candidates on April 28 at the Osage Casino in Skiatook. The “We’re aware that discus- ered the BIA’s letter of approval to the area,” Standing Bear event will be live streamed. sions within county govern- for the Nation’s fee-to-trust ap- said. “Very disappointing.” For more information call OMC Election Supervisor Billie Ponca at (918) 287-5288. ious to work with them and the records now, but I always Mayor any other Nation that wants vote, and I generally do it ab- –from Page 3 to do business in Oklahoma sentee. I believe I have made a homa which is widely known City. And also, maybe on a request, Thanks to the Osage for its tribal presence and yet more symbolic level, the issue News insert that was in the we do not believe there has of Indigenous Peoples Day has paper that I took advantage ever been an American Indi- been argued here in Oklahoma of, so I’m expecting a ballot an mayor of Oklahoma City. City for several years and not and you know I am obviously adopted, and I would like very So, I think that is something very grateful to the chief and much to bring that to some I carry with pride into the of- we have been friends since he sort of resolution. So, those fice and it may be ways that took office. I don’t know all the are some specific ways that I influences me moving forward. dynamics in the race at this think my tribal identity will point, but I certainly have had In Oklahoma City, we have play into the service that we no natural tribal presence, provide here.” positive experiences with him we were the unassigned lands ON: Will we see you in June and am certainly supportive of and that’s probably one of the for the Osage Elections? Who his continued service.” reasons why we haven’t had are you voting for in the prin- To read more about David an American Indian mayor. cipal chief and assistant prin- Holt’s political career and pub- But the Chickasaw Nation has cipal chief race? lic service, visit the state Sen- sort of staked a claim and has DH: “Well, I always vote, ate website at www.oksenate. become involved in Oklahoma at least I hope I do, I say that gov/Senators/biographies/ City progress and so I’m anx- just in case you run and check holt_bio.aspx Osage News • osagenews.org March 2018 7 APC Debate –from Page 1 Opening remarks Otto Hamilton III, 41, won a four-year term as an ON Con- gressman in 2014 and worked as a grant writer for the Na- tion before seeking elected office. During his legislative CHALENE TOEHAY-TARTSAH/Osage News CHALENE TOEHAY-TARTSAH/Osage News tenure, Hamilton served as Assistant Principal Chief Raymond Congressman Otto Hamilton an- chairman of the Congressional Red Corn answers questions at the swers questions at the Osage Cultural Committee; as Sec- Osage News Candidate Debates for News Candidate Debates for Assis- ond Congressional Speaker for Assistant Principal Chief on Feb. 17 tant Principal Chief on Feb. 17 at two years; and now serves as at the Osage Casino in Skiatook. the Osage Casino in Skiatook. chairman of the Congressional Tallgrass Economic Develop- Red Corn referred to the Education Committee. Ham- ment LLC? If you are elected, recent relocation of the Legis- ilton said he graduated from how will you approach ensur- lative Branch to the Nation’s BENNY POLACCA/Osage News the University of Oklahoma ing both of these entities turn now-owned former First Na- in 2000 then started working Attendees listen to the candidates’ debate at the Osage News Candidate a profit for the Osage Nation?” tional Bank building, which is for the Nation’s Education Debates for Principal Chief and Assistant Principal Chief on Feb. 17 at the – Osage News across Main Street from The Department before he started Osage Casino in Skiatook. Hamilton said the Nation’s Mercantile. “Well, the very working in the Strategic Plan- LLCs were controversial before first thing that could happen they learn, we can’t just hand like the job I have is the same ning and Grants Management he was elected, which includ- is to have the Congress move it over to the public schools ... reason I believe I’m qualified. I Office in 2006. ed losses as high as $19 mil- out of the bottom of the bank we want the best, we really spent eight years in Congress, “The reason I’m telling you lion incurred by former Osage building and make it avail- have to go out and recruit ... we I know the group dynamics of all this, as a Congress mem- LLC management and newer able so we can put in a busi- can’t just expect them to fall in the Congress, I understand ber, it’s really helped my per- business entity Tallgrass Eco- ness or something there that our lap.” Hamilton said he was what their motivations are, I spective and decision making nomic Development’s later for- proud an Osage teacher (Pau- understand the process. So, can make money off those very to have that employee per- mation. “I do know the Nation la Martinez) who was recent- when I’m serving in the ad- same people who are right spective, it’s unique and it’s is managing to resolve these is- ly honored as an Oklahoma ministration, then it’s my job across the street,” he quipped, valuable,” Hamilton said. “As sues with the LLCs and doing Indian teacher of the year is to go over there to help Con- with some audience members an employee, you’re on the what it takes, we don’t want now working at the Immersion gress understand why we’re laughing in reaction. “Regard- front line doing the work for a tarnished record with the School. “It all starts with re- looking for a particular result less of what happens with the the Nation, so it’s very (im- Small Business Association, cruiting ... we’re going to have from the Congress... The Assis- LLCs, I think we may have portant) you don’t lose that we’re going to do what it takes to set priorities to offer them tant Chief’s main job is to nav- something in front of us that’s perspective.” Hamilton said to be in good standing. And something, I believe right now igate the space between the a better prospect, it’s not go- he also brings a Congressio- also, I believe in autonomous we do, our pay is greater than administration and Congress. ing to make money fast, but nal perspective, if elected, and of the boards, these boards the other teacher salaries and And if anyone here doesn’t be- it’s going to make money long- “I’m also bringing the perspec- are appointed by experts. As a I believe we don’t need to stop lieve that’s operating between term – commercial real estate. tive of a cultured and educat- member of Congress, I believe there, we need to keep going a rock and a hard place, then And that is why we went down ed Osage. So, when it comes that we need to confirm these if we’re going to expand our you ought to come walk in my and bought that bank and we time to vote, please keep me appointees and stand back and schools ... it also goes to the ad- shoes for a few weeks during had the legal right to do so in mind, I’m not your regular let them do their job, we don’t ministrators of the schools, we session. It’s a very difficult without the permission of Con- politician, I started at the bot- need to micromanage them need to recruit them as well.” job, it is very demanding and gress ... We knew that would tom answering phones for the and worry about who they’re In his response, Red Corn most importantly it requires be a rock-solid investment and tribe, now I aim to be your As- spending money on, they’re ex- said he will not address the trust... not only from the Chief, down at the (ON-owned) Tul- sistant Principal Chief.” perts, we’re supposed to place direct question because “every but also from the Congress… sa Airpark, what we have in Raymond Red Corn III, 62, that trust onto them, but with time we get into one of these There’s conversations every- mind is going forward with a won his first bid for Assistant the records, trust is hard to discussions, we start talking day during session between plan to develop that and estab- Principal Chief in the 2014 come by these days, but I still about resources … So, when myself and the Principal Chief lish landlord-tenant relation- election and before that, served believe the LLC framework you want to hire more teach- - ‘What’s our position on this? ships with those people and two terms on the ON Congress will work. I’m not against the ers, when you want to extend If this is a tie, which way do those companies that we hope starting with the 2006 inaugu- Chickasaw Nation (business the schools, when you want we break it?’ – It’s a constant will locate there in the future.” ral election for the reformed board) model (discussed during to do all of these wonderful ongoing conversation, but the three-branch ON government. the Principal Chief candidate things, the very first question main thing is trust.” Fourth question Red Corn also served as Con- debate), I need to look into it I ask – being someone who Hamilton said: “I agree “Oklahoma is set to vote on gressional Speaker during his more… Chickasaw has a very serves essentially the Con- with everything he said, I also legalizing medical marijua- last two years as a legisla- good track record, so if we can gress and also someone who want to go back to my opening na in June. What are your tor. “My experience in Osage model something similar and serves the administration – is statement: I’m bringing three thoughts on the Osage Nation government is extensive … we make money, I’m all for it.” ‘how are we going to pay for things with me to the Execu- venturing to this economically? I wrote and sponsored many Red Corn said this is the them?’ I agree with everything tive Branch: The first one is Is medical marijuana some- of the laws that formed the “toughest question we face, Mr. Hamilton said about how my perspective as a (former thing the Nation needs to con- foundation of the Osage Na- the biggest challenge we face that happens … but some- government) employee, it’s sider?” – Billy Keene, Skiatook tion Code today,” he said. Red as a Nation in trying to get where, sometime we have very valuable, it’s one you Red Corn said he spends Corn’s earlier professional these things off the ground, to start doing a better job of don’t lose sight of when you get a lot of time reading about background includes business, trying to get them profitable. planning. I’m going to speak elected and you have to think management and he also holds Right now we’ve had several national news topics, which bluntly, I have sat in Congress about the employees with ev- a 2017 bachelor’s degree from internal conversations about includes the question of legal- as a member of Congress and ery decision you make. The Rogers State University. the current status of these two izing medical marijuana “and as Assistant Chief and watch second one is my experience as “As Assistant Principal companies and I want to say on this issue, there is an open what we call ‘the rush to the a legislator, I know quite well Chief, I’ve done my best to this: The way I see it, we’re question about the spectrum of podium’ (which happens) when of our opportunities, the abil- form this position, it was once supposed to think strategically options when it comes to mar- you have spare money there ities that our government can a position of very limited re- at this level, the way I see it, ijuana” which includes ques- and a member of Congress has do and also our limitations ... sponsibility and productivity, we have three options: You can tions about growing marijuana a project they believe strongly I want to take that knowledge, that has changed,” Red Corn call it quits, you can pack it in. for wholesale/ retail use, open in and they line up, go up there go to the Executive Branch and said. “The Osage Nation is That saves us money, but it up a marijuana emporium and (in efforts to get the spending help with the administration an organization of specialized costs us our reputation, it costs noted: “There’s also other op- bill passed) and pretty soon, ... And to reiterate everything positions, the Principal Chief us our ability to do more and tions where the government we’re spent down to the point that Mr. Red Corn has said and the Congress have very try to do better in the future. just regulates it and taxes it... where it’s difficult to do more. about compromise, being on specific roles. The Assistant We could appropriate anoth- and simply opens up the mar- So, every time you hear about the same page with the Exec- Chief navigates that space be- er large stack of money… and ket or offers limited licenses ... these promises and plans, they utive, the same page with the tween the Chief and the Con- then stop and assess where we This is a decision that’s going have to fit into the budgetary Congress, that’s not an easy gress and must earn the trust are and at that point, we can to be really hard to make ... framework and we do not have job. It takes a lot of work and a of both in order to earn his or either decide whether to put If you take everything I just a whole lot of money sitting in lot of trust, but I look forward her pay. Without that trust, more money into it or call it said and consider it, especial- the stacks somewhere … Yes, to the challenge.” the Assistant Principal Chief a day, we’ve spent money but ly anything from decriminal- we need to do everything Con- In his rebuttal time, Red is of little value to the Chief we have saved our reputation ization on, you have to ask gressman Hamilton said we Corn noted “Chief (Geoffrey or to the Congress or to you … We believe strongly in the yourself this: We’re a tribal need to do, but the very first Standing Bear) has trusted me the Osage people … My job next few weeks we will have nation, we have $26 million in thing we have to do is figure to be Acting Principal Chief is to represent the position of those numbers and have the federal money coming to us ev- out how are we going to pay for more than 80 days in this the administration in which information that we need to ery year, do we really want to for them.” past administration - that’s 16 I serve … Over the last four start making those decisions, risk all of that money ...?” Red In his rebuttal time, Ham- calendar weeks where he was years, we’ve made an awful but there’s going to be noth- Corn ran out of time to finish ilton said he agreed with Red on tribal business away from lot of progress and I’m proud ing easy about it. I’m sorry his response. Corn, adding “it all starts with to have played a role in that the office and I was entrust- I’m not answering the specif- Hamilton said he’s not op- prioritizing and planning, progress and there’s a lot more ed with those responsibilities. ic question about moving to posed to legalizing medical that’s where we need to sit that can be done.” I was the first acting chief to profitability, but that really is marijuana. “If you look at the down and look at what we’re ever call Congress into session, the job for those boards under state of California and the going to fund.” First question I was the first acting chief to our Constitution. Our (ON) state of Colorado and what Red Corn added: “At some ever veto legislation and to “With the Oklahoma educa- Supreme Court has said they they’ve done, the numbers are point, we absolutely, positive- actually write the veto (mes- tion system in shambles and are operationally autonomous there. “From a medical stand- ly must engage in long-range sage) and I’m the first acting the teacher shortages, how do – that keeps Chief Standing point, I’ve read reports, I’ve financial planning, but until chief to have a veto sustained. you intend to help bring in Bear, myself, and Congress out seen the issues, and I believe that day comes, we’re spin- I don’t know how the Assistant qualified quality teachers to all of their business and they op- it’s coming to the state of Okla- ning our wheels trying. If we Osage Nation schools?” - Ra- Chief can be more qualified to erate … It is not our job to de- homa ... Just like gaming, if it are rushing to the podium to chel Blackwell, Skiatook not only fulfill the job of As- termine how they’re profitable, does happen, we’re all going to spend the Osage dollars on this Hamilton said the Nation’s sistant Principal Chief ... and it’s our job to assess where get the same chance to start at project, that project, they’re all schools “mean a whole lot” to undertaking the job of chief they are and assess whether the same time, but when are worthy projects, but I agree we him, noting his four-year-old as necessary.” they deserve any more assets we going to start?” Hamilton need to prioritize them, that’s daughter attends the Nation’s Hamilton added as a third of the Osage Nation.” said he believes the medical the hard part.” Language Immersion School. item he would bring, if elect- In his rebuttal time, Ham- marijuana idea is something Hamilton thought back to the ed, is he can bring Osage cul- ilton said one discussion topic “we need to prepare for, at least first immersion school party Second question ture to the Assistant Principal he’s heard is whether the Na- look at it, consider it. Again, where parents brought food for “Why are you running for Chief’s office, noting that cul- tion’s LLCs will invest local- economic development num- the occasion. The parents were this office and how are you ture is part of the reformed ly, especially considering The bers from Colorado? They’re asked to bring fruits, vegeta- qualified for this office?” Patri- Osage government constitu- Pioneer Woman Mercantile doing a really good job. The bles and healthy snacks ver- cia Spurrier Bright, Pawhuska tion. Hamilton said a person opened in Pawhuska in fall state of California was medi- sus sweet and sugary desserts Red Corn said “I really like with cultural knowledge will 2016 and draws crowds from cal (use only) until Jan. 1, now “and that made me realize this this job,” but also said “I do be needed to bring it into the out-of-state. “I wonder what they (allow) recreational (use) is our own school, we get to not aspire to become Princi- government, “so that’s what it’s going to take for the LLC … It’s a big decision that’s go- decide how our children par- pal Chief of the Osage Nation, I’ll bring.” to invest locally in our local ing to take a lot of people to take in this, we decide what that is a bridge too far for me. economy? We’re just standing sit down and hash out, but for they eat, we decide what they If it happens - God forbid it Third question by watching. That’s something the use of medical marijuana, learn, they’re learning Osage, does - but if it happens I’ll take “What is your understand- I’d like to see at least talked See APC Debate we can also decide what else up that mantle... The reason I ing of the Osage LLC and the about, discussed.” —Continued on Page 16 8 March 2018 Osage News • osagenews.org

WHC seeking applicants for doctor, nurse practitioner positions Benny Polacca workweek (40-hours) and Osage News we need work performed to patients seen during that There are two health pro- whole 40 hours as close as vider positions now open at possible. It can’t be 32 hours, the Wah-Zha-Zhi Health it needs to be 40 hours and I Center in Pawhuska, ac- had no pushback from any of cording to Osage Nation job the physicians. I don’t think listings as of Feb. 28. it had anything to do with Dr. Ron Shaw, CEO for Dr. Bighorse’s resignation … the WHC, told the Nation’s We’re trying to get as many Health Authority Board on patient visits and therefore Feb. 15 the two full-time revenue (from patient in- provider vacancies are a li- surance billing) out of the censed doctor who will serve providers (so) we have been as a clinic medical officer and trying to increase the num- Photo Courtesy of Google Images a family nurse practitioner. ber of appointment slots.” HAB member Nancy Keil A group picture of Carlisle Indian Industrial School students in the late 1800s. Shaw also told the board the doctor vacancy will start asked Shaw if he would be following the recent resig- seeing more patients with ON Museum and Carlisle Indian School nation notice delivered by the two provider positions Dr. Amanda Bighorse whose open and he said “yes,” last day will be March 9. which could include more resource center hosting March 14 workshop Bighorse informed Shaw part-time days scheduled Osage News documentary The Lost Ones: tal authority by Capt. Rich- that “she needed to be closer per week where he’d see pa- Long Journey Home that fea- ard Henry Pratt. From 1879 to family” (out of the area) tients. Shaw also said anoth- The Osage Nation Museum tures the stories of two chil- until 1918, over 10,000 Na- and gave a one-month notice er local seasoned physician and the Carlisle Indian School dren who were sent to Carlisle tive American children from of resignation. “By the time whose services could be uti- Digital Resource Center are lized at the clinic is Dr. Rob- among the thousands of young 140 tribes attended Carlisle, she’s gone, all the charts will collaborating to host a com- ert Chesbro. people enrolled there. The trail- according to an August 2017 be caught up, all the notifi- munity sharing workshop on Shaw said Rumsey er illustrates the importance of pennlive.com article. Also, cations completed and she March 14 at 6 p.m. in the ON worked one day in January using both living oral histories there are roughly 180 of the has the last day to complete Civic Center. on a contractual basis to per- from Native communities and students buried in a cemetery any paperwork, turn in any Attendees will learn about form certain procedures and descendants and historical ar- at the former school, most of equipment so it’s a clean researching the Carlisle In- that provider option would chival material to piece togeth- whom died from disease. break for her, we certainly dian School Digital Resource be available pending anoth- er the story. This will lead into “In an attempt to assimilate wish her well,” Shaw said. Center documents including er approved contract. Clinic an introduction to the Carlisle Native Americans by remov- The two positions are school publications and stu- Manager Paula Stabler said Indian School Digital Resource ing them from tribal influ- listed among current Rumsey saw 11 out of 17 pa- dent files related to the 159 Center (http://carlisleindian. ences and transforming them job openings at www. tients booked that day and Osages who attended the Car- dickinson.edu/): how to search, through education, (Carlisle osagenation-nsn.gov/op- added Rumsey’s services cut lisle Indian Industrial School explore and use it for teaching Indian Industrial School) was portunities/job-listings in Carlisle, Pa., during its and research. We will conclude founded on the philosophy down on referring patients under “ON Government - to outside providers for 1879 to 1918 operating years. with time for participants to of, ‘Kill the Indian: Save the Available Positions.” This event is free and open to explore the site and share any Man,’” according to the news those services. “I’ll have to admit I’m kind According to the job de- the public. information they may have release. “Forced to leave their of embarrassed that we’ve According to an ON museum about family and friends that families at young ages, the scription for the clinic med- had two Osage physicians ical officer, the successful news release: “The workshop attended Carlisle.” Native children were made to resign in the last six months, applicant “provides compre- will start with a short intro- The Carlisle Indian Indus- give up their indigenous cul- but you know what attracts hensive health care on a dai- duction to the Carlisle Indian trial School was founded in See Workshop a physician to a clinic is cer- ly basis and is expected to School with a trailer from the 1879 under U. S. governmen- —Continued on Page 16 tainly more than your tribe, provide quality medical care there’s got to be other ways to all patients. The incum- it fits and it wasn’t the right bent works independently Trump fit for our two (Drs. Bighorse and on his/her own initiative –from Page 1 and Cameron Rumsey who as a Family Medicine/ Prac- left in December 2017). Calling it “duplicative of tice provider and supports In the meantime, Shaw other Federal programs and the mission of the facility.” noted “We’ve already got a initiatives,” the proposal calls For the family nurse prac- family nurse practitioner for the elimination of the Indi- titioner position, the suc- advertisement that just an Community Development cessful applicant “provides went out yesterday” and Block Grant program under direct and comprehensive said both positions will also the Department of Housing primary, preventive and be advertised on the Indi- and Urban Development. The therapeutic medical and an Health Service available closest equivalent federal of- nursing care across the pa- jobs website and others in- fering that specifically serves tient life span (i.e., geriatric, cluding the Association of Indian Country, the Native adult, adolescent, pediat- American Indian Physicians American Housing Block Pro- CNN .com ric and infant patients and and Oklahoma State Medi- gram, is projected to take a President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress on Feb. 14. their families) while taking cal Association. into consideration socio-eco- 15.9 percent budget cut. lies receiving at least $90 per grams, which oversees a host Prior to Bighorse’s resig- nomic, epidemiological and Also slated to be eliminated month to receive part of their of tribally-related initiatives, nation announcement, Shaw cultural influences.” under the Trump administra- benefits in the form of a box of would set aside 7 percent of (who is both CEO and cur- For more information tion’s budget are the Low In- canned and shelf-stable gro- its budget across the board rent Chief Medical Officer) on clinic services and ap- come Home Energy Assistance cery items, similar to those for indigenous programs. Al- said he started working on pointments, the Wah-Zha- Program, the Department of made available through the though the office has previ- restructuring the patient ap- Zhi Health Center can be Labor’s Indian and Native Food Distribution Program on ously had part of its budget pointment times and “we’ve reached at (918) 287-9300 American Program, the Tribal Indian Reservations. specifically set-aside for tribal already seen an increase in or visit its website at: www. Energy Loan Guarantee Pro- At the local level, according assistance, those designated the average patients seen osagenation-nsn.gov/what- gram and Johnson O’Malley to data published in January funds were only available to we-do/wah-zha-zhi-health- Program. by the USDA, American In- select programs. per day. The purpose of center. If approved, the Depart- dian households make up 4.8 On Feb. 14, Jefferson Keel, which, we offer a four-day ment of Interior would receive percent of the total population the president of the National $11.67 billion, a decrease of of Oklahoma’s Third Congres- Congress of American Indi- $1.83 billion from the con- sional District, but account for ans, released a statement in ON Congress to meet for tinuing resolution approved to almost 8 percent of all SNAP response to the Trump admin- maintain government funding participants. The state’s other istration’s budget. this fiscal year. four districts have similar par- “The proposed budget cuts 2018 Hun-Kah Session Of that $1.83 billion slated ticipation rate gaps. to tribal governmental ser- to be cut, $453 million would Medicare would be hit with vices, if enacted, would repre- come from the Bureau of In- a $554 billion cut over the sent a clear retreat from the starting March 26 dian Affairs, more than any next decade, including a pro- federal commitments and trea- Osage News other agency or service under posed $47 billion from chang- ty promises made to tribes,” the Department of Interior. es to drug pricing. Per-person he said. The Fifth Osage Nation Congress will convene for its 2018 Currently, the BIA accounts limits on Medicaid use would “We support proposals Hun-Kah Session starting Monday, March 26 in the ON Capitol for 20.4 percent of the depart- also be implemented as part that treat tribal governments Building in Pawhuska. ment’s budget, trailing only of an effort to turn the pro- equitably, such as the pro- The 24-day regular session will be the final spring session held the National Park Service. gram into a block grant posed budgetary set-asides before the June 4 general election. Six of the 12 Congressional Among the specific BIA pro- with more state-level regu- in the Department of Jus- seats will be open in the election, which will also feature can- grams targeted for multimil- lations rather than federal tice for tribes. Tribal parity didates running for the offices of Principal Chief and Assistant lion-dollar budget reductions minimum standards. should be the guiding prin- Principal Chief and Judicial Branch Judges up for yes or no re- are Job Placement and Train- Despite the slew of project- ciple for every other depart- tention votes on the ballot. ing, Social Services, Welfare ed cuts, a handful of programs ment or initiative as well, The 12-member legislative body will consider filed legislative Assistance, Rights Protection in Indian Country would re- including addressing the opi- bills, resolutions and other matters brought to the Legislative Implementation and the Di- ceive additional money under oid epidemic and building and Branch for review and action. The members will also meet in vision of Human Services’ of- the Trump administration’s repairing infrastructure. Congressional committee meetings, which will be scheduled as fice responsible for enforcing budget. “We call on Congress to up- needed throughout the session for initial reviews and consider- provisions of the Indian Child Indian Health Services hold the federal government’s ation of legislation and other matters. Welfare Act. would receive a $353 million trust responsibility to tribal Copies of filed legislative bills and resolutions, as well as Con- Additionally, several safety boost to expand direct health nations. When tribal nations gressional meeting notices and agendas for sessions are posted net programs that dispropor- care services, plus an addition- agreed to accept a smaller online to the Legislative Branch calendar at: www.osagena- tionately serve Native fami- al $150 million through com- land base, the federal govern- tion-nsn.gov/who-we-are/congress-legislative-branch/calendar lies are projected to take cuts petitive grants to help address ment promised to safeguard During the session and committee meetings held in the Con- under the Trump administra- the opioid crisis. our right to govern ourselves gressional chambers building, those public meetings (except ex- tion’s budget proposal. Two programs under the and to enable tribal govern- ecutive sessions) will be live streamed at: www.osagenation-nsn. The Supplemental Nutri- Department of Justice would ments to deliver essential gov/multimedia/live-media tion Assistance Program, for- also get additional funds. services and provide them re- The ON Communications Department will also record the merly known as food stamps, The Crime Victims Fund, sources to do so effectively. sessions and those recordings will be archived and available for would take a 22 percent cut which has never directly pro- That is the trust relationship later viewing on the Osage Nation YouTube channel at: https:// next year, or $17.2 billion. vided services to tribes, would embodied in the U.S. Constitu- www.youtube.com/channel/UC4mRcFPAMmqmqMFcFXuf_ In addition to reducing the have a 5 percent set-aside for tion. Congress and the admin- bA/featured. amount made available with Indian Country, or roughly istration are responsible for Also follow the Osage News on Facebook or check the newspa- each month’s SNAP vouch- $115 million. carrying out that trust in the per’s website at www.osagenews.org for any updates during the er, the budget calls for fami- The Office of Justice Pro- federal budget.” 2018 Hun-Kah Session. Osage News • osagenews.org March 2018 9 Tribal leaders discuss deteriorating relations with Trumps administration at quarterly UINOKT meeting Lenzy Krehbiel-Burton Keel, president of the National Osage News Congress of American Indians Coming soon to a casino near you: ball and dice games? and lieutenant governor of the SKIATOOK — Everything Lenzy Krehbiel-Burton ally for state coffers, with 88 contain an evergreen clause, Chickasaw Nation, described old is new again, or so it seems percent of the money going to which means that unless a his recent meetings with Sec- for several tribal leaders when Osage News the state’s Education Reform tribe or the state requests to retary of Interior Ryan Zinke it comes to sovereignty fights. Revolving Fund. renegotiate within 180 days Taking to the Osage Casi- By a 17-8 margin Feb. as troubling from the outset, no podium at the quarterly 26, the Oklahoma House of Traditionally, craps, rou- of that deadline, the agree- with requests for consulta- meeting of the United Indian Representative’s Appropria- lette and other banked ment terms roll over and re- tion on a large-scale reorga- Nations of Oklahoma, Kan- tions and Budget Committee games are played against the main in place. nization of his department sas and Texas, Osage Na- approved House Bill 3375, house. However, as per the “It’s always good to start brushed aside. tion Principal Chief Geoffrey which would allow tribal ca- language in both versions thinking about it early,” “The Department of Justice Standing Bear reminded at- sinos to offer craps, roulette of the bill, the games would OIGA Sheila Morago said. now says he has to (consult tendees that although tribes and pooled sports betting. In be pooled, where the partici- “However, OIGA would with tribes), but I don’t think have sovereign-to-sovereign exchange, the state would pants are competing against not start that conversation these plans will get through relationships with states and receive 10 percent of the pro- each other for the same pot of among tribes. Tribal leaders the federal government dat- while he’s in office,” Keel said. ceeds from those games. prize money. would have to initiate those ing back centuries, that has Meanwhile, with most of The Oklahoma Senate’s According to a study com- discussions.” not always meant that the the attending officials rep- relationship has been harmo- Business, Commerce and missioned by the Oklahoma When speaking before UI- resenting Oklahoma tribes, nious. That relationship has Tourism Committee ap- Indian Gaming Commission, NOKT members Monday, one of the candidates in the been tested in recent years proved a similar measure tribal casinos have paid the gaming expansion was the state’s 2018 gubernatorial race state more than $1.1 billion only Indian Country-specific both with the state and federal Feb. 27 and referred Senate made an appearance at the Bill 1195 to the Appropria- in exclusivity fees since the topic addressed in guberna- government for several tribes, quarterly meeting. including the Osage. tions Committee. implementation of Oklaho- torial candidate Mick Cor- The outgoing mayor of Okla- “Just look at the recent Should either measure be ma’s Class III gaming com- nett’s prepared remarks. The homa City, Mick Cornett is court decisions,” he said. “The enacted, officials with the pacts in 2006. Oklahoma City mayor said one of six Republicans seek- days of being able to rely solely House of Representatives are The current tribal gaming he supports the idea and did ing to advance to the Novem- on our treaty rights are over.” projecting the change would compacts are set to end on not elaborate or provide stip- Citing a loss of property tax ber general election to replace generate $28 million annu- Jan. 1, 2020. The compacts ulations for his backing. revenue, the Osage County term-limited Mary Fallin. Commissioners voted in Janu- Acknowledging his lim- ing activity conducted while it ticipation waitlist, including “For us to be looked at and ary to appeal a land-into-trust ited experience in tribal af- application from the nation for was a trustee. the Stroud-based Sac and Fox told it was too hard to appraise fairs, Cornett said he would 75 acres near Osage Casino’s “People wonder why our Nation. Citing appraisal diffi- our land … that was not ac- welcome more Native per- flagship location in north Tul- lands are underdeveloped,” culties, none of the 20 tribes ceptable,” she said. “We’re sa. If the tribe’s trust applica- Chief Standing Bear said. “You on the revised implementation asking that everyone please spectives in policy making, es- tion is approved, the property try dealing with three extra list are from Oklahoma. contact their representatives. pecially with respect to health would be used for technology layers of government control.” During the National Con- We need the economic devel- care and Medicaid expansion. and research center, including Those extra layers have de- gress of American Indians’ opment opportunities just as However, he demurred when aerospace and drone projects. layed other Oklahoma tribes mid-year conference in Wash- much as those other tribes. publicly pressed for more A decision is still pending on as well, prompting other tribal ington in February, Sac and Are our people’s lands not consultation sessions with the appeal. leaders to take to the podium Fox Chairwoman Kay Rhoad- as valuable?” tribal leaders, including send- The tribe is also dealing to air their grievances. es confronted the Bureau of In- That sovereignty con- ing representatives to future with pushback on its applica- In 2017, the Trump admin- dian Affairs over the decision versation has even extend- UINOKT meetings. tion to have the 43,000-acre istration announced plans to and was informed that officials ed to tribes’ dealings with Bluestem Ranch taken into re- curtail the land buy-back pro- decided her tribe’s land was members of the Trump “I don’t know what your ex- stricted status – this time from gram created under the Cobell too difficult to assess a fair administration’s cabinet. pectations are yet, but I want the federal government for en- settlement, dropping more market value on due to ques- During his remarks to UI- to meet them once I fully un- vironmental damage by drill- than 50 tribes from the par- tions of mineral rights. NOKT officials, Jefferson derstand them,” he said. Judge does not recommend Six Osage women are the first to file utility rate hike to subsidize candidacy for Osage Congress so far Benny Polacca western wind farm Osage News Lenzy Krehbiel-Burton Hominy and the Big Bend In the first two days of the candidate filing period, six Osage News area, then continue straight west just north of Osage, Osage women filed for can- didacy to run for Osage Na- OKLAHOMA CITY — An Prue and Walnut Creek tion Congress in the June 4 administrative judge with State Park before eventual- general election. ly running parallel to West the Oklahoma Corporation The Osage Congressional Commission is not recom- 88th Street North and reach- filing period is open through mending pre-approval of a ing a substation in Sperry. March 12 for Osages interest- utility rate increase that PSO Oklahoma’s share ed in running for six legislative would subsidize a western of the construction bill was seats that will be open in the Oklahoma wind farm. slated at $1.57 billion, of election. Eligible candidates In a report published Mon- which $78 million would are enrolled Osages who are at least 25 years old on election day, Judge Mary Candler come from the proposed rate Alice Goodfox is the first Osage to Geneva Horsechief-Hamilton is the day and who do not have fel- wrote that the Public Ser- hike starting in 2021. Can- file for candidacy on Feb. 6 seeking second Osage filing for candidacy ony convictions, according to vice Company of Oklahoma dler questioned that amount an Osage Nation Congress seat in to run for Osage Nation Congress in her ruling, noting that the 2006 Osage Constitution. the June 2018 election. on Feb. 6. relied on unreasonable data On Feb. 6, the Congressio- PSO-Oklahoma’s analysis and flawed planning process nal filing period opened with relied on projected natural when making its case for a Alice Goodfox (incumbent) rate hike that would help gas prices and carbon data and Geneva Horsechief-Ham- cover the costs associated that put the project in the ilton waiting outside the ON with building Wind Catcher best possible light. Election Office in Pawhuska In order to qualify for the Energy Connection. when the door was unlocked Department of Energy’s Re- Pitched as the second at 8 a.m. Goodfox, who is newal Electricity Production seeking her third Congressio- largest wind energy project Tax Credit, construction nal term, arrived at the office in the world, Wind Catcher has to be underway before first and submitted the re- Energy Connection is a joint Dec. 31, 2019, with a high- quired candidacy forms and effort among Chicago-based er per-kilowatt hour credit $300 filing fee and Horsechief- Invenergy, Southwestern available if building starts Hamilton followed. Electric Power Company Shortly before 1 p.m., Mary in 2018. and PSO-Oklahoma. Jo Pratt filed her paperwork To get the project online The project’s transmission making her the third candi- quickly enough, PSO-Okla- Mary Jo Pratt is the third to file for Tina R. Allen is the fourth Osage fil- line would run 360 miles date to file. At about 1:20 p.m., homa skipped part of the Tina R. Allen was the fourth candidacy on Feb. 6 to seek Osage ing for candidacy on Feb. 6 to run from an 800-turbine farm Nation Congressional office in the for Osage Nation Congress in the competitive bidding process woman to file for candidacy. near Guymon to a Tulsa-ar- 2018 election. 2018 election. for the transmission line. In Incumbent Angela Pratt, ea substation and then on her report, Candler said the who is the current Congressio- to additional substations in time crunch was insufficient nal Speaker, filed for candida- Louisiana, Arkansas and reason to justify increas- cy seeking a second term that eastern Texas. ing customer rates, as the day at about 3:50 p.m. Pratt The $4.5 billion project $78 million figure did not was the final and fifth candi- is slated to generate 2,000 take into consideration the date to file on the first day. The second day, Clair megawatts of energy annu- possibility that the project Wood filed for candidacy at ally when it comes online in might not qualify for the full late 2020. PSO officials have 1 p.m. and was the only can- tax credit. didate to file on Feb. 7, mak- indicated that they would Additionally, Candler not- ing her the sixth by the end of prefer the line to take the ed, cost recovery pre-approv- the workday. most direct route from the al has to be requested before The six ON Congressio- Panhandle to the Tulsa area, construction starts, but nal seats each have four-year which would mean pass- building efforts are already terms with two regular Con- ing through far southern underway in the Panhandle. gressional sessions each year Osage County. Candler’s report is not lasting up to 24 days with the Angela Pratt is the fifth Osage fil- Clair Wood is the sixth Osage to file The projected path would binding, but will be taken Hun-Kah Session in spring ing for candidacy on Feb. 6 seeking for candidacy in running for Osage have the line enter Osage into consideration by the and Tzi-Zho Session in the fall. Osage Nation Congressional office Nation Congress in the 2018 elec- County north of Blackburn, Oklahoma Corporation Com- Special sessions (lasting up to in the June 2018 general election. tion. head southwest between mission later this spring. See Women —Continued on Page 16 All photos by BENNY POLACCA/Osage News 10 March 2018 Osage News • osagenews.org

Three more Osages file for candidacy Election Board member for Osage Nation Congress Benny Polacca The ON Congressional can- Office. The Election Board also recuses self from 2018 Osage News didate filing period is open meet as needed for regular or through March 12. special meetings to consider Three more Osages filed for The six opening ON Congres- election-related business with election duties candidacy to run for Osage sional seats each have four- the next regular board meet- Benny Polacca Nation Congress in the June 4 year terms with two regular ing scheduled Feb. 8 at 1 p.m. Osage News election bringing the number Congressional sessions each in the ON Election Office at of candidates to nine as of Feb. year lasting up to 24 days with 608 Kihekah in Pawhuska. One alternate member 22. the Hun-Kah Session in spring The ON Election Office web- of the Osage Nation Elec- and Tzi-Zho Session in the fall. site also contains other forms On Feb. 9, Amanda Proctor tion Board will serve of- filed for candidacy at the ON Special sessions (lasting up to and information on the 2018 ficial duties for the 2018 Election Office, making her the 10 days) may be called at other election including address up- general election after a seventh Osage to do so. Proc- times throughout the year via date forms, absentee ballot re- sitting board member re- tor and the six candidates who written proclamations issued quest forms and information on filed before her are all women. by the Principal Chief or leg- the privacy program regarding cused herself following a Michael Kidder is the first islative approval by two-thirds voter information listed on the family’s member’s candi- Osage man to file for candida- of the Congress members. voter registry list. The website date filing in the ON Con- cy in this election year. Kidder After the Congressional is at: www.osagenation-nsn. gressional race. filed on Feb. 15 making him candidate filing period ends, gov/what-we-do/elections Board member Belle Osage News the eighth overall Osage to run the ON Election Board will The Election Office is also Wilson submitted a let- Belle Wilson has recused herself for office. meet to consider certification on Facebook at “Osage Nation ter of recusal to her fel- from ON Election Board duties af- The next day, Eli Potts filed of the candidates, pending Election Office” where officials low colleagues after her ter her niece Alice Goodfox filed on Feb. 16 making him the background checks conducted post updates and links to elec- niece, Congresswoman her candidacy for the Sixth Osage ninth overall candidate filing. by the ON Attorney General’s tion-related information. Alice Goodfox, filed for Nation Congress. candidacy seeking a third term in the June 4 election. The board unanimously vot- ed to accept Wilson’s letter on Feb. 8 and now alternate board member Anita Fields will serve on the three-mem- ber board in Wilson’s place. Board Chairwoman Shannon Lockett said Fields will serve as a regular voting board member through the re- mainder of the election season. Election Supervisor Alexis Rencountre said she alerted second alternate board mem- ber Gary Weyl of the election developments and he also attended the Feb. 8 board meeting while Fields attended via telephone and other sitting board member Terry Ha- zen was present. The Congressional candidate filing period runs through March 12, meaning if another candidate files, which would Amanda Proctor is the seventh Michael Kidder is the eighth Osage Eli Potts is the ninth Osage to file require another board member to recuse herself to avoid a Osage filing for candidacy seeking to file for candidacy seeking Osage for office seeking Osage Nation conflict of interest, then Weyl would also step in to serve Osage Nation Congressional office Nation Congressional office in the Congress in the June 2018 general official board duties. in the June 2018 general election. June 2018 election. He filled with election. He filed at the ON Elec- According to the Osage election code, a board member She filed on Feb. 9. the ON Election Office on Feb. 15. tion Office on Feb. 16. shall recuse him/ herself from board service for that elec- All photos by BENNY POLACCA/Osage News tion and an alternate board member shall serve according to provisions of the election code in the event a candidate files who: is an immediate family member of a board mem- ber; lives with a board member; or is a partner in a busi- Creative writing workshop emphasizes ness concern with a board member. The law also states “‘immediate family’ means spouse, community, commitment and sharing son, daughter, mother, father, sister or brother, grandpar- ent or grandchild, aunt, uncle, niece or nephew or member Shannon Shaw Duty of the same household and includes those of the foregoing Osage News who are formally adopted by court order.” Osage writer Ruby Han- Wilson was appointed and confirmed to the Election sen Murray hosted a Creative Board in the fall of 2014 after Goodfox won a second Con- Writing Workshop at the gressional term in that year’s election. Weyl, a long-time Osage Nation Museum on Feb. Osage County resident, was first appointed and confirmed 1. The attendees were sur- for an alternate board position in spring 2015. rounded by the late Osage art- Weyl was an election official who assisted in the Nation’s ist Gina Gray’s works, which is 2006 election when the reformed government launched, the latest artist’s retrospective and he also assisted in the 2014 Osage Minerals Council featured at the museum. election. However, it was more than The Election Board will consider other 2018 election-re- just a writing workshop. It pro- SHANNON SHAW DUTY/Osage News lated business including: review/ approval of candidate vided an outlet for members of campaign reports; considering fines/ penalties if any can- the community to express their Attendees of a Creative Writing Workshop drew inspiration from the love for the late Gina Gray, her works of the late Osage artist Gina Gray on Feb. 1 at the Osage Nation didates do not submit those campaign reports by stated Museum. artwork and their experiences deadlines; considering fines/ penalties if any candidates in Osage culture. when writing poetry about her more time to write down her do not follow other mandates in the election law or rules/ “It’s a really important time Osage ways. life’s experiences. regulations; and board members will be present for assist- for women, for Osage women, “Everybody gets to be them- Mandy McKinley said she is ing in election day duties including ballot counting and and it means so much that all selves when they write,” Cosby inspired by her children and making decisions for any unexpected developments. The how they feel about art, espe- of you are here,” Murray said, said. “As Osages, we are our 2018 election business will also include taking action (if most liberated when we are cially her daughter Stella who referencing the Wak’on Owat- necessary) for recounting ballots and certifying the elec- creating art.” attends the first grade at the si, a social dance for women tion results. and girls that was happening The exercise set forth by Osage Language Immersion The Election Board will hold its next regular meeting that weekend. “Writing is real- Murray was for the attendees School in Pawhuska. She is on March 13 at 1 p.m. in the Election Office in Pawhuska. ly a community thing.” to pick one of Gray’s paintings See Writing There were 17 adult attend- in the room, and pick a color or a —Continued on Page 17 ees and three children. One theme from the art. They could by one everyone stood up and write about the title, an ob- introduced themselves and ject, and once they had settled Despite tribal opposition, Invenergy LLC shared what drew them to the on an idea they were to write workshop and what they want- three sentences describing the ed to learn. Many expressed work. It could be the beginning eyeing Osage County for 80 wind turbines their longing to improve their of a short story, a poem, or a Lenzy Krehbiel-Burton mission cooperatives that in farm slated to go up in the writing and to find a creative descriptive expression. Osage News turn serve 51 smaller coop- Oklahoma Panhandle. outlet to help them relieve Cheryl Potts, who lives in eratives across northeast- The companies’ preferred stress and express themselves. Pawhuska and manages the More turbines may be dot- ern Oklahoma, Missouri and transmission line route for the Murray is a writer and pho- Million Dollar Inn, said that ting the Osage County horizon southern Iowa, including In- project would have the line tographer, living along the in her former career as a so- in the coming years. dian Electric Cooperative in enter Osage County north of lower Columbia River, whose cial worker she never had the Headquartered out of Chica- Cleveland, Okla., which has Blackburn, head southwest work appears in World Liter- time to write just for her, or go, Invenergy LLC has applied more than 3,400 customers in between Hominy and the ature Today, CutBank, The had a chance to be creative be- Rumpus, As/Us. Winner of for a conditional use permit Osage County. Big Bend area, then contin- cause she was always writing the 2017 Montana Prize in from the Osage County Board If approved, construction ue straight west just north of legal descriptions and reports Creative Nonfiction, she’s a of Adjustment to construct a Osage, Prue and Walnut Creek for her job. She said she was is not scheduled to start un- Hedgebrook, Ragdale and wind farm on 10,000 acres be- til late 2019, with the tur- State Park before eventually happy to be there and thanked running parallel to West 88th VONA fellow with an MFA tween Shidler and Grainola. bines coming online at the end Murray for providing the A public hearing is sched- Street North and reaching a from the Institute of Ameri- of 2020. creativ outlet. uled for 6 p.m. on March 8 substation in Sperry. can Indian Arts. She teaches In order to qualify for the Kathie Jacobs, from Bartles- at the Osage County Fair- As of press time, no decision creative writing in tribal and Department of Energy’s Re- ville, said she wanted to spend grounds’ Agriculture Building has been made on whether community settings. She’s newal Electricity Produc- from the Hominy district, re- an evening with her fellow in Pawhuska. the transmission line will go tion Tax Credit, construction lated to Murray, Johnson, Osages and express herself The proposed project, north through Osage Coun- has to be underway before Pettit and Morrell families. through writing. Miya McK- known as Silver Spike, would ty or take a southern route Dec. 31, 2019. She also writes a monthly col- im said she loved to write and have up to 80 turbines gen- through Drumright, Cushing umn on Osage culture for the wanted to spend more time do- erating an estimated 158.6 Calls to Invenergy LLC and Bristow. Osage News. ing that for her family as she megawatts of energy. A power seeking comment were not re- Additionally, the Oklaho- Dena Cosby, who brought plans to pass on her family’s purchase agreement is already turned as of press time. ma Corporation Commission her young son, said she stud- Osage history to her children. in place with Associated Elec- Along with PSO-Oklahoma has not decided whether to ied poetry and English at Kayte Berrey Pratt said she tric Cooperative Inc., for the and Southwestern Electric allow one of Invenergy’s part- Rogers State University in knew Gina Gray well growing energy generated from the Power Company, Invenergy is ners, PSO-Oklahoma, to Claremore, where she received up in Denver, Colo., and that proposed project. also a partner in the proposed raise its use rates start- her bachelor’s degree. She said now that she is retired from AECI works with six re- Wind Catcher Energy Connec- ing in 2021 to subsidize the she was the most comfortable nursing, she wants to take gional generation and trans- tion, a $4.5 billion, 800-turbine project’s construction. Osage News • osagenews.org March 2018 11

Aliyah and Corina Wahwassuck.

Women of the Red Corn, Gray and Standing Bear families pose for a group photo, and their cousin Talee Redcorn.

The Osage News took portraits at the Wak’on Owatsi on Feb. 3. The Wak’on Owatsi is a social dance to empower women and girls against domestic violence, suicide, drugs and alcohol. From left: Erin Casoose and her mom Avis Ballard.

All photos by SHANNON SHAW DUTY/Osage News From left: Alex Ponca Stock, Sarah Ponca, Wendy Ponca and grandson.

Ruth Shaw and younger sister Margaret Sisk.

From left: Russell Harjo, Tammy Mason Lux, Jessica Rosemary Harjo, Joe Ellis, Terry Mason Moore, Ted Moore Jr., Erica Pretty Eagle Moore, Dillon Moore.

Anita Fields with her daughter Welana Queton (left) and her niece Au- drey Luttrell.

The Wahzhazhe Youth Council. From left: Naomi Lookout, Erin Lookout, Michael St. John, Olivia Ramirez, Gage McKinley, Alaina Maker, Truman Pipestem, Abbie Cox and Noah Shadlow.

Back row, from left: Marilyn Yarbrough (black shirt), Zeke Yarbrough, Kathy Gilliland, and LeeAnn Ammons (pink blanket). From row, from left: Marilyn McAuliffe (white blanket), Rose Yarbrough and Kaylie Martin.

AT RIGHT: From left: Jeri Red Corn, Cecelia Tallchief, Kathryn Redcorn, Rosemary Wood, Joyce Smith and Margaret Ann Bird. 12 March 2018 Osage News • osagenews.org Out-of-state firefighters come to the aid of Osage Nation’s Wildland Fire Management Shannon Shaw Duty Osage News

Ross Walker stood before about fire- fighters on the morning of Feb. 8. The firefighters hail from all over the coun- try. Some are from the Croatan Na- tional Forest in New Bern, N.C., the Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation, and the Division of Fire in Ronan, Mont. He also had local emergency hires on site. February and March can be a dan- gerous time for the Osage Nation Wild- land Fire Management, which has been in existence since 2011. With six full-time firefighters, they enlist out- side crews available to them through the Bureau of Indian Affairs and other federal agencies like the United States Forest Service. “Don’t let that 20 percent chance of rain fool you, remember what hap- pened last time?” he says, and the crews laugh. There was no rain on that day and there were fires, despite fore- casts to the contrary. As Walker read a detailed report of Courtesy Photo/Wildland Fire Management the day’s weather, the men and one ABOVE: Osage Nation Wildland Fire Management assists woman were sectioned into teams to with a wildfire approximately three miles east of Hominy take on all of Osage County. The coun- on Feb. 15. SHANNON SHAW DUTY/Osage News ty, which is the largest in Oklahoma, is often compared to the state of Rhode TOP LEFT: The Osage Nation Wildland Fire Management Island. Walker said he is thankful for Firefighters. From left: Britton Redeagle, Ross Walker, Louis the help they receive from the visiting Dailey III, Benny Miller, Brad Hayman and Corbin Malone. firefighters during the Nation’s fire SHANNON SHAW DUTY/Osage News season. He also has local emergency hires as well. The Nation is currently MIDDLE: Osage Nation Wildland Fire Management fire- in a burn ban until March 2. fighters and local hires pose for a photo outside their Walker explains that his fire team is office in Pawhuska. From left: Treyton Redeagle, Wilson Hight, Dalton Maker, Tyler Wilson, Britton Redeagle, Au- funded by both the Osage Nation and gustus Anderson, Ross Walker, Matt Carter, Louis Dailey III, the BIA. The outside firefighters are Jordan Brashear, Rann Tingtella, Benny Miller, Brad Hay- from the BIA and the USFS. He said man, Corbin Malone, and DJ Polson. they’ve worked with the guys from Cro- atan National Forest, and worked re- Courtesy Photo/Wildland Fire Management ally, really well with them, for years. BOTTOM LEFT: Firefighters from the Confederated Salish In fact, according to Croatan National & Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation. From left: Forest Firefighter Markeith Teel, the Chris McCrea, ICT3(T)/TFLD; Jacque Graham, Engine Boss- Osage Reservation is a home away 1305; Bob McCrea, Operations/ICT3; Kelly O’Bennick, EN- from home. He’s been coming to the BG(T)/ICT(T)-1305; Kyle Couture, ENGB(T)/ICT(5)-1305. Osage for six to eight years. Not pictured: Matt Sorensen, AirCraft Dispatcher-Boise “The hospitality, the culture and the National Forest-USFS. respectful ways displayed here make it one of our favorite places to come,” Last year Walker, Corbin Malone, April, maybe a little into May. We ex- out of its containment line and it only he said. “They take care of us while Fire Prevention Foreman, and Joseph perience what we call, ‘our late winter, grew an additional 3 acres, but we were we’re here.” Pratt traveled to Georgia and Flori- spring season,’” he said. “We see most there, and we were checking it and we Kelly Rose O’Bennick, a firefighter da to the Okefenoke National Wildlife of our fires in March, and February is caught it rather quick,” he said. “But from the Confederated Salish and Koo- Refuge. They were there for 21 days. the second highest. Then we usually we’ll actually continue to check those don’t pick up again until I’d say usually tenai Tribes on the Flathead Reserva- He and others also went to the Rose- fires and mop up those containment September through December.” tion, is on her second trip to Oklahoma, bud Agency and the Pine Ridge Agency lines until they’re free of smoke or an in South Dakota. Benny Miller, Britton The crews normally work 8 to 10- having been here in November and De- escape or a threat to the containment Redeagle, Brad Hayman, Malone and hour shifts, and when conditions cember. Her crew leaves on Feb. 22. line. So, it’s not just a one-day deal and other emergency hires went to Mon- worsen they could easily work a 12 to “I’ve been here a week. We’ve helped we’re done with them – we continue to assist with the west and east Buford tana to the Flathead Agency and were 16-hour shift. But Walker said it’s a 2 go back daily and check on them and fires, helped put the fire underground,” there for almost a total of 45 days, he to 1 work/rest ratio, so if a firefighter make sure they’re still secured.” she said. “We did some back burns said. In previous years they’ve trav- works a 16-hour day they are man- as well.” eled to Arizona, Colorado, New Mexi- dated to take off 8 hours the next day and rest. Luckily, it’s been slow for Walker said when the Nation’s fire co, California, Washington, Minnesota, Vigilant the past couple of days, but they just season is approaching and they know Tennessee, Idaho and Oregon. “We’re a As their morning briefing came to came off the east and west Buford fires they will need help, he contacts the national asset,” he said. near Skiatook. a close a crew member asked about BIA’s Eastern Oklahoma Regional Of- Walker said the Nation’s fire season “It was the worst fire we have worked Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, or drones, fice. The regional office then contacts is about eight to nine months long. on this year, absolutely,” he said. flying in the area because a local news their dispatch center, AOICC. AOICC “Historically, in Oklahoma we There were two fires on Feb. 3. The station was flying a drone during a re- stands for Arkansas Oklahoma Inter- see about an eight, to possibly nine east Buford fire which was a 6,830- cent fire. Walker told the firefighters agency Coordinating Center. months, fire season. January through acre fire that started at 2 p.m. About to shut down drone use immediately. five minutes later, a mile to their west, Drones can damage helicopter engines the west Buford fire started. It ended and they can bring down aerial sup- up burning 1,622 acres. Walker and port. his crews worked on both fires until “You’re going to get somebody killed about 11 p.m. in one of these seats,” said Malone, “The next day we went out there to Courtesy Photo/ check those fires and it was another dry about allowing drone use during a fire. Wildland Fire Management day and the west Buford fire got out on “You see a drone, shut it down.” The Croatan National Forest us, grew 222 acres and we contained Walker ended the meeting Firefighters. From left: David that on the next day. On Feb. 5, we had but not before telling them: “Be safe. Nelson Division(T)/TFLD; the east Buford fire slop over and get Be vigilant.” Matt Carroll, Engine Crew Member-632; Markeith Teel, Engine Boss-632 and Shane Benson, Engine Crew Mem- ber-632.

SHANNON SHAW DUTY/ Osage News Ross Walker, ON Wildland Fire Management director, gives a morning briefing on Feb. 3.

SHANNON SHAW DUTY/ Osage News Ross Walker, ON Wildland Fire Management director, gives a morning briefing on Feb. 3. Osage News • osagenews.org March 2018 13 14 March 2018 Osage News • osagenews.org Osage News • osagenews.org March 2018 15 Osage Nation Congress Candidate Announcements for crushing debt. It has re- Alexander Moncravie and I am the daughter of Ro- Tronox doing research and de- cently been revealed in the De- Myrtle Clementine Baker. sa-Raye Hill Pledger and Jim velopment in new products and bate for Principal Chief that See http://www.osagenews. Pledger, the granddaughter process improvement. Worked we have overspent in the last org/en/article/2017/09/28/ of Marguerite Matin Waller for Waste Management in a fiscal year and have had to liq- congress-honors-late-osage-re- and Raymond Hill, the R&D, pulling the methane uidate one of our Certificates searcher-annette-gore/ I have great-granddaughter of Hel- off the trash dumps sites and of Deposit which clearly indi- a graduate degree from the en (Pratt) and Walter Matin converting to Biofuels. Then cates to me that we may have University of Denver. My cam- and Rose Neal Hill, and the on to Lubrication Engineers gone well beyond the Consti- paign Facebook page is located great-great granddaughter working for them in the sales tutional Congressional prohi- athttps://www.facebook.com/ of Josephine (Chouteau) and consultant. I currently work bition of spending more than Tina-Allen-for-Osage-Nation- Henry Pratt. for myself as a Sales Consul- our projected income. Chiefs Congress-1991667341099728/ I am a shareholder and re- tant for United Laboratories, with ambition are a good thing I am asking for your vote stricted land owner, a cook working with customers, using until we can no longer afford in the upcoming election and for the Zon-Zo-Li committee, our technology to help w/ pe- them or their lack of full dis- will do my very best to honor a member of Klash-Kah-She troleum sludge, foul odors and closure and cooperation with and successfully complete the Club and a member of the other needs. Tina Allen the Congress as to current above mission I intend to un- Osage Shareholders Associa- I also currently serve as and future plans, budget jus- dertake on your behalf as an tion. I have served as the 2nd an Osage Nation Gaming Tina Allen announces tifications and other financial elected member of the Osage Speaker for the Osage Con- Commissioner, overseeing candidacy for Osage information necessary for an Nation Congress. gress for two years, Chaired rules and regulation, gam- Nation Congress open exchange, without ran- the Governmental Operations ing licenses to employees and Committee and Congressio- vendors of the Osage Nation I am Tina Allen and I am cor or fractious power strug- nal Affairs Committee, and I Gaming. The Osage Gaming running for a seat in the Osage gles involving the inordinate have also been on the following Commission is set up to pre- Nation Congress. It’s time for legal expense of engaging the Committees: Rules & Ethics, serve and protect the integrity me to get involved and do what Tribal Court, in order for the Membership, Education, Cul- of the Osage Nation’s gaming I can to serve the interests of Congress to make a properly ture, Health & Social Services, activities ensuring fair and all of the Osage Nation mem- informed decision as to how and Commerce & Economic honest practices by patrons bers no matter where they live much we really have to spend Development. My attendance and operators, enforcing all throughout the country and on a yearly basis. If the Judi- for regular Congressional Ses- applicable gaming laws and to work to restore the power cial and Executive Branches sions, Special Sessions and internal controls, and ensur- and prestige of the Legislative are actually controlling the ap- Congressional Committee ing that the Osage Nation is Branch as the representative propriation of these funds that meetings is excellent. I have the primary beneficiary of the body of the Osage people with are being approved by our Con- eight years of leadership and gaming facilities. the right of ultimate control gress, then the people no lon- experience on the Osage Na- As an Osage Nation Con- over how our money is spent ger have the power over what tion Congress. I have authored gressman, I would protect our is spent of the public funds in on what is really needed for all legislation to assist Osage’s Osage Sovereignty, Minerals the Osage Nation Treasury. the people who have an Osage Alice Goodfox with disabilities, created leg- Estate, and Osage Culture. I No power or prestige for the Nation membership. We have islation to make our ethics would also look after taking Osage people in terms of hav- to stop non-essential spending Alice Goodfox announces laws stronger and supported care of our Elderly Osage Peo- ing the ultimate control of the and for the sake of current and her candidacy for appropriations that benefit all ple, provide housing and med- purse strings as it is now and I future generations, the taking Osage people. I have been ded- ical care. While continuing intend to work religiously to do re-election to the Osage on of additional debt now re- icated in the work I do for the the Scholarship program and ported to be in the neighbor- what I can to restore them and Nation Congress Osage people. I will continue Health Cards. I would provide hood of $175 million. Some reverse the current situation My name is Alice Goodfox to listen, I will continue to do new ideas, such as term limits decisions about what new proj- such as it is today. and I am excited to announce my due diligence, I will contin- for congress, looking at men- ects we undertake have to be I am the daughter of An- my candidacy for the Osage ue to have strong morals. tal health issues, just a few of left up to future generations nette Moncravie Gore and Nation Congress. There is more work to do and the ideas. who do have the right to have the granddaughter of Orig- I reside in Hominy, OK with I humbly ask for your vote and I would be happy to listen to more choices than just to pay inal Allottees, Sylvester my son Joseph Goodfox Jr. support as I seek Re-Election any ideas, my email address is to the Osage Nation Congress. [email protected]. Sincerely, I believe, I have the experi- Alice Goodfox, MHR ence to serve the Osage peo- 918-688-7068 ple with honor and integrity. Save the Date! [email protected] I ask for your support in my campaign and in the election. –Local Events Calendar Vote Michael Kidder. MARCH sas, Missouri, Okla- For more information March 1 - April 12 homa, and Kansas (918) 287-5668 Registration period: Feb- One Book, One Community April 30 ruary 1 to February 28 Stillwater, Oklahoma Absentee Ballot For more information Event Schedule available Mailing Begins at library.stillwater.org contact Courtney Neff For Osage Na- For more information at (918) 287-9741 tion Congress contact (405) 372-3633 April 20 Osage Nation Elec- March 12 Deadline to submit Absen- tion Office tee Filing for Osage 608 Kihekah Ballot Request forms Nation Congress Ends Pawhuska, Oklahoma For Osage Na- Osage Nation Elec- (918) 287-5286 tion Office tion Congress Michael Kidder 608 Kihekah Must be received by close of business at 4:30 p.m. JUNE Michael Kidder announces Eli Potts Pawhuska, Oklahoma his candidacy for Osage (918) 287-5286 Osage Nation Elec- June 1 Eli Potts announces tion Office Early Voting Day 1 Nation Congress March 17 his candidacy for Osage 608 Kihekah For Osage Na- I am proud to announce my Osage Nation Sovereignty Pawhuska, Oklahoma tion Congress candidacy to run for Osage Na- Nation Congress Day Powwow tion Congress. I am both humbled and hon- (918) 287-5286 For more information Osage County Fairgrounds My Great Grandparents ored to announce my candida- contact (918) 287-5286 Pawhuska, OK April 21 are Ben Wheeler and Fannie cy for Osage Nation Congress. 2 p.m. Gourd Dancing United Osages of Southern June 2 Wheeler, Amos Hamilton and I was introduced to Osage government through my moth- 5:30 p.m. Supper California Spring Meeting Early Voting Day 2 Marie Etiva Hamilton. Grand- Carlsbad Senior Center parents are Muskogee Wheeler er, National Councilwoman 7 p.m. Grand Entry For Osage Na- 799 Pine Ave. and Mildred Wheeler. My Par- Cheryl R. Potts, as a young boy tion Congress March 29 Carlsbad, California ents are Mary Francis Wheel- in the mid 1990’s. Since that For more information Storm Spotter Training 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. er Kidder and Dennis Kidder. time, I have prepared for a life contact (918) 287-5286 I have been married to Pam of public service. Osage County Fair- For more information Kidder for over 26 years and As an Osage Nation Higher grounds Women’s Building contact Greg Clavier June 4 have two boys along with rais- Education Scholarship recipi- 320 Skyline Drive at (760) 802-7591 General Election Day ing my niece and nephew. ent, I have earned an Associ- Pawhuska, Oklahoma April 22 For more information I grew up in Osage Coun- ate of Arts degree from Tulsa 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Northern California contact (918) 287-5286 try, Hominy Indian Village, Community College, a Bache- Osage Meeting surrounded by family, grand- lor of Arts degree in Political mother, aunts and uncles and Science in 2013, and a Mas- APRIL Fairfield Inn and Suites AUGUST many cousins. I was very for- ter of Public Administration April 7 2100 Freeway Drive August 4-5 tunate to grow up in learning degree in 2015, both from North Texas Osage Woodland, California Osage Women’s Conference from my elders. I have learned the University of Oklahoma. Spring Meeting 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Osage Casino - Skiatook to listen and be respectful to During that time, I was chosen Holiday Inn Ex- For more information Proceeds go to benefit those that are speaking, not to work directly under Univer- press, Azelea Room go to www.northern- sity President, David L. Boren, the Pawnee/Osage overlook ones opinion. 4550 West John Carpenter californiaosage.org Our family participates in where I taught democracy labs CASA program Freeway, Irving, TX 75063 the In-Lon-Schka dances and and encouraged civic engage- 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information, I am very proud to sit on the ment among students. April 22 For more information, contact Rosemary Shaw Zon-Zo-Li committee for over I have been employed by Osage Tribal Princess contact Jim Ryan at at (580) 822-0088 or 40 years. I believe the Osage state and tribal governments Sorority Honor Dance [email protected], Paula Stabler at Culture and history is very im- since graduation in 2009 and Osage County Fair- portant and should be main- have been active in local poli- or (210) 825-6747 (918) 237-7434 grounds Ag Building –––––––––––––––––– tained and encouraged with tics since high school. During April 14 Pawhuska, Oklahoma Have an event? Send event the help of the Nation. college, I served in the Office Osage News Candidate 2 pm to 10 p.m. information to the Osage News, Graduated from Hominy of Congressman Dan Boren Debates - Osage Nation For more information Attn.: Shannon Shaw Duty, 604 High School and with the help in the United States House of Congress contact (405) 933-3174 Kihekah, Pawhuska, OK 74056; of Osage Scholarships and Representatives and sought email [email protected], election to the Oklahoma Osage Casino - Skiatook grants I went off to College. or fax to (918) 287-5563. Make I graduated from Northern House of Representatives in 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. April 28 sure to include event date, loca- Oklahoma College and trans- 2010 as one of the youngest For more informa- tion, email and web address (if Osage News Candidate ferred to Southwest Oklahoma candidates in state history. applicable) and a phone number tion (918) 287-5668 State University, majoring in In 2014, I started a successful Debates - Osage where someone can be contact- political consulting firm which April 16-20 Minerals Council ed for validation, if necessary. Chemistry and math. Started my career at Barret Refinery focuses on getting grassroots Four Corners of the Osage Osage Casino - Skiatook Deadline for the February issue as a Quality Control Chem- candidates elected to state of- Visit Sites in Arkan- 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. is January 18, 2017. ist, later moving to Oklahoma See Candidates City working for Kerr McGee/ —Continued on Page 19 16 March 2018 Osage News • osagenews.org

that the state will respond in sion to public schools, how can … That’s like an untapped re- … That land acquisition for APC Debate good faith? – Although I think we plan on continuing growth source we can go to for the peo- that ranch was the finest mo- –from Page 7 they made a diplomatic mis- in the (Osage) language beyond ple, with the traffic and people ment of the Osage Nation that step right out front when we immersion and what can you flow, I’ve been to Missouri on I think will probably occur in I believe we have to start now, drilled that well in Skiatook … do? Rachel Blackwell, Skia- a few occasions this past year my lifetime … I was astounded start looking into it.” It ended up in such a way that took with the Wazhazhe Ballet and when we pulled that off.” In rebuttal time, Red Corn the Attorney General for the Red Corn said: “This is a the (Osage Legacy) Statue un- Hamilton passed on using finished his response by ques- state of Oklahoma came to our subject I do not know a lot veiling and a mural unveiling, rebuttal time. tioning whether the current office (also with the New Mex- about, you need to understand and I have to say the people of President Trump administra- ico-based law firm that wrote in my job, I take written in- Missouri were very welcoming tion would take action if the Closing remarks an October 2017 letter to the struction from the Principal to the Osage people. It was very Nation pursues medical mari- Red Corn said “I believe the Nation objecting to the Na- Chief, he gives me a list of admirable to be walking up juana operations, thereby put- Osage Nation is moving for- tion’s Skiatook water-well per- tasks. If I have something I and to see (written signs that ting the $26 million in federal ward, it has taken its place have an initiative on, I go and read) ‘Welcome Home Osage’ mit) and we sat down and had a along other successful trib- grants awarded to the Nation ask ‘can I use resources to do when we went to the statue good chat and it was diplomacy al nations. Working with our at risk. “This President is so this?’ and he either says yes or unveiling off I-44.” Hamilton at work.” Red Corn also brief- Congress, we have increased unpredictable, I really hesitate no and 90 percent of the time, then quipped: “Wow, we don’t ly addressed the ongoing ten- benefits, we’ve assumed con- and wonder whether a guy like he says yes and we go take even get that in Osage Coun- sion between the Nation and trol of our clinic, real estate that is going to order (U.S. At- care of that … The answer ty, to see that in Missouri with Osage County government, services, we’ve built new well- torney) Jeff Sessions to come is, again, resources, the way open arms, opportunities, I which grew recently after the ness centers and we’ve created right down with both feet and most governments or entities can’t help but think of the pos- County Commission voted to early childhood education pro- say ‘Fine, let’s make an exam- or organizations do this is they sibilities of where we couldn’t contest the Nation’s land-into- grams for our children. This ple out of these people, shall start with (ages) 0-5.5 group go without gaming in Missouri trust application for 75 acres administration has set out to we?’ Well, that didn’t work out and they add a grade … Let … As long as we get a plan in just to the north of the Tulsa increase the use of our lan- so well. And then, we’ve talk- me tell you, it is very expen- place, I’m all for it.” Osage Casino. “On the county, guage – the language, along ed about Trump’s (proposed sive to do what we are doing, Red Corn said he spent sev- I don’t believe they are nego- with the land base and cul- budget) in 2019, that’s not just we are spending a lot of Osage eral days as Acting Principal tiating or even acting in good ture, they’re essential to our wiping out 10 percent, 15 per- Nation resources (properly I Chief while Standing Bear and faith – I’m not talking about sovereign status. We now have cent of your federal budget, might add) to have these im- other ON officials visited Mis- the entire county, I’m talking a state-of-the-art language that’s wiping out all of it. That mersion classes, to have these souri for business related to about one or two particular app for a smartphone or tablet, kind of unpredictability gives early childhood learning cen- the possible gaming expansion, officials. So, when diplomacy our immersion students speak me great pause in a cost-ben- ters … very soon, if you have a and added: That opportunity is advocated, you absolutely Osage all day in school and efit analysis.” flat amount of money (to spend represents the very best long- Hamilton said “that is must assume that your oppo- adults can be heard in Osage nent or your counterpart is each year) coming in from dis- term chance for us to really get very true when it comes to a tribution from the casinos and something toward a substan- conversations … we’ve estab- cost-benefit analysis” but add- going to act in good faith – We lished our own food sources didn’t start that fight… The no other income to really count tial increased income. It is a ed “my logic and what I have on – and a growing number of tricky, tricky operation, you’re in Bluestem Ranch and Bird to say, I don’t consider the cur- (Osage County) District Attor- Creek Farms. We have new ar- ney (Rex Duncan) started that people taking advantage of the not only navigating Osage pol- rent administration to be the health benefit and the educa- itics on this side, you’re also bors in which you can dance, we basis of what my logic is, we fight and we responded and have new community centers, I thought we responded ap- tion benefit – all of a sudden, navigating Missouri politics on shouldn’t.” those numbers start to squeeze that side … There’s a lot of long which we need, and we have a propriately under the circum- new flagship casino to support stances.” Back on the question you again. We went from $40 conversations, a lot of trust Fifth question million to $45 million last year building, a lot of relationship our Nation’s income stream. I topic, Red Corn added he’s think we’re on the right path, Within the past year, the provided testimony on behalf and almost immediately, we’re building involved in that and it Osage Nation has begun ne- already hitting our heads on takes a lot of. I’m hopeful and but being on the right path is of the Nation on water rights not enough, it takes initiative gotiations with the state of and added: “Ladies and gentle- the ceiling again because of I’m bordering on optimistic … Oklahoma Attorney General and hard work to make things men, don’t ever take the short the demands on us.” If we don’t get it, I still think over our Nation’s water rights Hamilton said there is the that the risk is worth it, I hope happen. It takes hard work answer on water rights, those in Osage County. If you are federal Administration for Na- they’re successful.” to locate scarce resources, it negotiations go on for decades, elected, will you further these tive Americans (ANA) grant Both Red Corn and Hamil- takes hard work to start a new the lawsuits certainly go on negotiations? Why or why not? opportunity that could help ton passed on using rebuttal project and to keep it going. for decades and I admire what – Osage News fund language initiatives and time. Good ideas? They’re abundant. our administration has done, Hamilton referred back to noted the Nation has received The leaders who work hard to which is to undertake to nego- earlier debate responses that it numerous times in past make those ideas a reality are tiate right up front.” Eighth question honestly harder to find. We’re used the word “diplomacy” and years. ANA “wants you to suc- “Twenty-five years from now, In rebuttal, Hamilton re- not perfect, no administration said “yes, I will sit down at the ceed, they want your language what would you like to see the ferred to the Nation/ Osage is going to be. At the end of the table and talk to these people to survive. We have to keep Nation’s Bluestem Ranch pro- County issue and said he was day, it’s about hard work and … when we’re two nations, two planning our immersion pro- viding for the Osage people?” – proud, as an Osage in addi- results. I respectfully ask you entities, governing bodies, we gram and ANA will help us, Billy Keene, Skiatook, OK tion to Congressman, to see to make your choice based on need to come to a decision and it’s just a grant, but we do need Red Corn said the ranch has the current administration’s hard work and results. If you diplomacy is the only way to tribal dollars to supplement the capacity to produce beef response where “they stood do, I promise you the hard go. Yes, I would sit at the table that. When it comes to the im- for Osage entities including their ground… When it comes work will continue.” and listen to everything they mersion school, I can’t help but the casinos, restaurants and to diplomacy, it does take two Hamilton said “I believe I have to say and I hope they lis- be proud of the fact that my to have a possible local brand, sides and I can see the Osage have a rapport with the Osage ten to everything I have to say daughter is four years old and but “what I’d really like to see being more diplomatic than Congress, who I’ve served with on the Nation’s behalf. When more Osage is spoken in my happen – and Congressman the other side and for those for the last four years, I think it comes to water rights … As household than it was before (William ‘Kugee’) Supernaw that know me, like they say, I have a rapport with you as a sovereign nation, we need to … She’s brought us all togeth- deserves props here – Con- I’ll kill them with kindness” … Osage tribal members who include it in every talk that we er as a family to speak more gressman Supernaw was the when it comes to sitting down know me, who got to know me have.” Osage in attending classes. If voice in Congress to say ‘buy to discuss issues. for the past four years who Red Corn said: “When the one day there is no immersion land, buy land, buy land’ … Red Corn passed on rebuttal knows what kind of person discussion turned to diplomacy school, we still can have that the most and the loudest … time. I am and what I stand for. I in prior debate, I made a note conversation with my daugh- What I’d like to see in a five- believe I have a rapport with to myself here in my notebook ter … Immersion is not some- year period is for profits from our next Chief, that we can all and I wrote this down: ‘The ex- Sixth question thing that we take lightly, we that ranch go right back into get on the same page and get tension of diplomacy assumes “How do you plan to grow on do it for our language surviv- buying adjoining land or other with Congress for our project your counterpart will respond Immersion School? If the stu- al … We need to get everyone ranches, let’s keep our hands in good faith.’ Do I believe dents are going from Immer- at the table to plan it. If we’re off that money and let that be completion. Project completion going to go to first grade, sec- our engine that allows us to is something that sounds easy ond grade, let’s get the word buy more land. Is that what until you get on a project with out, let’s get the tribal mem- the Drummonds do? You bet … five people, it’s not an easy Workshop bers’ support, let’s get the Bouncing back to the (Osage thing. That’s something I look –from Page 8 Congress support, immersion County issue), Rex Duncan forward to, it’s something I be- is something that’s proved to is known to say ‘My gosh, the lieve I’m good at in working on tures, languages, religious and spiritual beliefs, and even benefit other tribes and I can Osage Nation wants to buy ev- projects. I have a project man- their names. While some communities and families were see the benefits here in the ery bit of land in Osage Coun- agement background, it came from me being an employee, persuaded to send their children, other children were cap- Osage daily.” ty!’ Guess what Rex, I can In rebuttal, Red Corn said with that employee perspec- tured and sent to Carlisle as prisoners of war.” name five ranchers who want he respectfully disagrees tive. I don’t know if we’ve ever According to the Carlisle resource website: “The Carlisle to do exactly the same thing, with Hamilton on the point of so what makes us the bad guy had an Executive (Branch) of- Indian Industrial School is a major site of memory for many grants because “I just don’t see for wanting to buy our land ficial that was once an employ- Native peoples, as well as a source of study for students and grants, any grants, really com- back? The direct answer to the ee, so I aim to be the first one. scholars around the globe. This website represents an effort ing through to fill that need (debate) question is I want to Again, I bring this perspective to aid the research process by bringing together, in digital to really do a whole class in see them reinvest the profits with me to do things, every- format, a variety of resources that are physically preserved time,” noting he’s observed the and have that be the land ac- thing that Assistant Chief Red Nation’s budgeting process- Corn has just said and more. in various locations around the country. Through these re- quisition (tool) that moves us es for years. “But really, the I want to be a part of it, the sources, we seek to increase knowledge and understanding into the future.” way to do that if it’s going to Hamilton said “I agree with Osage Nation has done big of the school and its complex legacy, while also facilitating be done, is you go to those peo- everything Mr. Red Corn has things right now and I believe efforts to tell the stories of the many thousands of students ple (foundations that award said, buying this ranch has I can be an asset to the admin- who were sent there.” grants), you understand what been one of the highlights of istration. Through language, The ON Civic Center (former Cultural Center) is locat- you have to build yourself and the last four years, it was an through culture, through our ed at 1449 W. Main St. in Pawhuska. For more information then you go back and ask those opportunity that came when I economic development we’re people who have billions of dol- please contact Hallie Winter, ON Museum Curator at (918) got a call in the middle of the looking to get into, I believe I lars for the money to continue can be a part of those discus- 287-5222 or [email protected]. night (from Red Corn) talking your program.” about the possibility of a sions and I believe I can be an Hamilton said ANA offi- ranch.” He said tourism is also asset. So, when it comes time cials will work with its grant a possibility for ranch use with to vote, please don’t look at me omen special meetings to consider awardees, adding “these aren’t people who are game hunters as your normal politician, lots W election-related business with to fully fund the whole school, and would stay in a lodge if of you have known me since I –from Page 9 the next regular board meet- these are to fund projects, one were built there. Hamilton grew up here. You can look at 10 days) may be called at other ing scheduled Feb. 8 at 1 p.m. language projects, if we want noted the ranch has its own me as Otto Hamilton, former more teachers, the ANA grant times throughout the year via in the ON Election Office at board and he is behind the employee, former Congress- will fund that project.” man, who aims to be your next written proclamations issued 608 Kihekah in Pawhuska. board members 100 percent in by the Principal Chief or leg- overseeing the 43-acre prop- Assistant Principal Chief.” The ON Election Office web- To watch the Osage News islative approval by two-thirds Seventh question erty. “I believe in the short site also contains other forms Candidate Debates for the As- of the Congress members. “Within the past year, the term that we’ve owned the and information on the 2018 Osage Nation has begun a re- ranch, it has turned a profit,” sistant Principal Chief Candi- After the Congressional election including address up- lationship with the state of Hamilton said. dates, visit https://youtu.be/ candidate filing period ends, date forms, absentee ballot re- Missouri to possibly expand Red Corn said the ranch jBse_9leGf8 the ON Election Board will quest forms and information on our gaming enterprise into our also represents “a very rare The Osage News wishes to meet to consider certification Thank the Osage Nation Com- the privacy program regarding original homelands. Are you piece of real estate where one of the candidates, pending for or against this move and entity owns the surface rights, munications Team, the Osage voter information listed on the background checks conducted why?” – Osage News the mineral rights, there’s all Casinos and the League of by the ON Attorney General’s voter registry list. The website Hamilton said: “I’m for it and kinds of oil and gas operations Women Voters of Metropolitan Office. The Election Board also is at: www.osagenation-nsn. the reason is right now there on there and drone companies Tulsa and the League of Wom- meet as needed for regular or gov/what-we-do/elections is no tribal casino in Missouri can test their drones on there en Voters of Oklahoma. Osage News • osagenews.org March 2018 17

Osage Energy Compacting the BIA, the Kentucky Derby and Black Gold Rosemary Wood Osage News

During a special meeting, Jan. 29, the Osage Minerals Council discussed options to streamline the leasing process. One option discussed was to contract/com- pact (PL 93-638) the B.I.A. Min- erals Branch. A resolution was passed authorizing legal counsel to research the pros and cons and legal processes involved in such an effort. Using, in part, the re- sults of the attorney’s assessment, the Minerals Council will decide whether or not to proceed in con- tracting administrative control of the BIA Minerals Branch. To me, this measure would be a straight forward approach, since Rosemary Wood snags, hurdles and obstacles im- peding leasing are directly related with this assessment. I do trust our to the Office of the Superinten- own people, ourselves. I suppose if dent. Federal Laws, from which something is new and has not been these impediments spring, would tried before, there is some natu- apply regardless of whether the ral fear of the unknown. But, for Tribe or the Bureau administers me, it is a given that individuals the program. The difference would are hired based on qualifications. be in the enforcement and imple- Maybe that is part of the fear as- mentation of the law. sociated with PL93-638. In the Superintendent Robin Phillips’ past, we have seen folks hired for implementation of the EPA, FOIA, “who they know” rather than “what and Endangered Species Act is they know”. All things being equal, obstructive and restrictive to pro- I’ll bet on the Osage. Speaking duction. Her methods are destruc- of which ... tive to the Osage Shareholders. During Wak’on Owatsi, the Wom- Her administrative style is of long en’s Dance Feb. 3, 2018, I was for- standing and not likely to change. tunate enough to meet and visit One outcome of the Superin- with Marcella MacDowell. She is tendent’s modus operandi dates the granddaughter of Rosa Magnet back to 2014 when Phillips noti- Hoots. For the first time I was able fied producers that a new 72-page to hear, directly from a Hoots fami- environmental assessment was to ly member, something of the legend be required. By Feb. 25, 2015 pro- of Black Gold. Rosa Hoots owned ducers had more than 600 pend- Black Gold, the 1924 Kentucky ing applications to drill in Osage Derby winner. He was also known County. Attorney James Sicking, as “the Indian Horse.” In his book, Osage Producers Association, said “The Legend of Black Gold,” Win- “this agency is taking the side of ston Groom helps us recall what wealthy, powerful landowners and 1924 must have been like. shutting down an entire industry.” “As it happened, 1924 was the (Tulsa World Osage Oil) A pro- Kentucky Derby’s fiftieth anniver- ducer noted that, “A thoughtless, sary, or Golden Jubilee, as race reckless and unnecessary action officials preferred to call it, and ac- by … (the) agency has shut down cordingly, momentous changes were the entire county. For the first announced amid great fanfare. Not time in a hundred years, there’s no only was the race designated the drilling in Osage County. (Tulsa Run for the Roses, but, for the first World Osage Oil) For previous dis- time, in the opening ceremonies cussion of the Bureau’s methods of ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ was re- operation see Osage News June- placed by Stephen Foster’s ‘My Old July, 2017. Kentucky Home,’ a song that still Public Law 93-638, Contracting causes many native Kentuckians to and Compacting, also known as cry into their mint juleps even be- the Indian Self-Determination and fore the racing begins. Also, a spec- Education Assistance Act of 1975, tacular new trophy was fashioned authorizes the Secretary of the In- that remains the standard design terior and the Secretary of Health, to this day: a nearly two-foot-tall, Education and Welfare to enter three-and-a-half-pound solid gold into contracts with, and make loving cup, with a horse and jockey grants to, federally recognized on the lid.” Indian tribes. This Act allows the “With the Kentucky Derby’s fu- tribes to control the funds and ture thus fortified and ‘the most programs directly affecting their exciting two minutes in sports’ up- members. It is my understanding coming, racing fans watched Rosa that most tribes who have con- Hoots take her seat in one of the tracted to provide for services of- owner’s boxes at Churchill Downs – fered by the Federal Government the first Native American and only have done a good job of “home- the second woman to do so ...” rule” and have been satisfied with I’ll bet on the Osage Indians. the results. ––––––––– One of my nephews said that he About the author: Rosemary did not understand why so many Wood is a former two-time Osage Trib- al Councilwoman and graduated from of our people are not for running St. John Hospital School of Nursing in our programs and services our- 1963, the University of Oklahoma in selves. “You’d think they would 1965, and from Rutgers University in trust their own tribal members 1971 with a Master of Science in Psy- more than others.” I tend to agree chiatric Nursing.

ago and they connected through art. Writing “She taught me a lot and we laughed, –from Page 10 and talked about our Osage ways,” she awed and inspired by Stella’s use of the said. Murray said Gray prayed and re- Osage Orthography in her artwork for searched to make her pieces. She cared school and at home. She said art is en- a lot about teaching, sharing with oth- couraged and praised at the school and er Osage artists. “Her good thoughts she’s thankful for that. are here, among us, among her things.” Addie Roanhorse, Gray’s daughter, Murray ended with a video clip of said she was thankful for all who came, Gray. With the volume turned up, the to Murray and to the museum for host- video began and Gray’s voice filled the ing. “Being amidst my mom’s work is overwhelming,” she said. “She’s giv- quiet room. Many became emotional as en me my talent and it’s going on to the great artist talked about teaching my daughter and I’m just really glad children and teaching painting. The to be here.” video ended as Gray began to laugh, Murray said she met Gray a long time putting a smile on everyone’s face. Corrections On pg. 5 of the February edition of the Osage News, Assistant Principal Chief Raymond Red Corn and Osage Congressman Otto Hamilton’s captions are switched. The Osage News regrets the error. The caption on the front page picture of the Osage Wrestlers misidentified Levi Hendren as the first boy on the left. The boy’s name is Dalton Reed. The Osage News regrets the error. 18 March 2018 Osage News • osagenews.org Celebrating Osage Women Ruby Murray Guest Columnist

On Friday, fifteen minutes before the Wak’on Owatsi tea was starting, I sat in my car on Prudom. I’d parked so I could see people going inside, but also, so that I could sneak away. The friend with whom I’d planned to attend the tea couldn’t get off work, so I called Chelsea Bryan, an Osage writer living in Califor- nia. I told her I felt awkward because I wasn’t wearing a hat. I’d visited earlier, when Osage youth were helping Chad Renfro set out vas- es of yellow roses and arrange petals on white linen tablecloths. Julie O’Keefe was moving quickly among a room full of round tables. There were so many, I thought no one would miss me if my so- Ruby Murray cial anxiety took over. Moira RedCorn and Robert Warrior Friday night was personal. Describ- had talked about a dance for years, but ing her losses, Anya Roanhorse said, when 26-year-old Blake Sisk died, Red- “Oh, boy – that was hard.” In a grief- Corn said things really got going. She worn voice, Shannon Shaw Duty de- wanted Osage women and girls to know scribed Margaret Sisk’s strength in they had a place. nurturing family members in the face of I remember sitting with Moira in her own loss. October, shortly after #MeToo rolled through the country. There’s something After a traditional lunch on Saturday, powerful about sitting and acknowledg- people dressed in their Osage clothes or ing painful things. Moira said her fa- wrapped in blankets. Dancing outside ther, the late author Charles Red Corn, in February in Oklahoma is daunt- always advocated speaking with some- ing. We’d been ready to face the sharp one face to face. wind that blows some days, like Blake When I saw friends entering the faced cold in South Dakota, but the day church annex, I went inside. At the tea, was mild. Cecelia Tallchief spoke about dances Veronica Pipestem emceed. Speaker that had been held in Grayhorse over of the Osage Congress Angela Pratt, a the years and the hand games she had veteran, wore a blanket lined with flags hosted. Because Wak’on Owatsi coin- and bison. I’d brought Lillian Pitt’s cided with the one-year anniversary of Coyote and the Huckleberry Sisters. As Blake’s tragic death, and the one-month we danced, moving close to the drum, anniversary of Mary Bighorse’s death, I thought about my sister, Jennie, who the evening was poignant. died too early. When they sang the new That night as I listened to Osages, song honoring Osage women, we gath- primarily women, speak about their ered at the drum in slanting light. lives and what was important to them, That evening on the prairie, the sky about the strength that had come down was a golden spray of clouds. In the days in their families and the names of the that followed, we talked about family women they loved, I was glad to have members who we carried with us, who stayed. We were building something weren’t able to be present, who were together, embracing our history, saying incarcerated or who had passed. We’d aloud what we’d been taught and what made a community, each of us bringing we held dear. The Osage youth who our gifts and strengths. The artists, the were serving cups of strong tea had en- drum maker, the singers, the men who tered the spirit of the event, too. You could imagine the men and cooked, the women who organized, the women walking down from Kansas as hosts of the tea, the caterers, the youth people mentioned their grandmothers who served, the writers, a college stu- who were closer to those stories. I felt dent focusing on suicide prevention in the hard times in our history and the Native communities, and everyone who joy of being together. I felt we Wah Zah spoke from their heart. The people we’d Zhi were as strong as we’ve ever been. remembered made us open to each oth- Determination was present in the most er, and the community we created con- grief-stricken among us, and it showed tinues. in the elegant hats they wore. We were We say Thali Wazho^, good job, and survivors, moving forward together. Iwikiozho Azhamie, I’m proud of you. February Missouri Department of Transportation offering two paid summer archaeology internships The Missouri Department of Transportation is offering two paid summer in- ternships at the Missouri Department of Transportation in Jefferson City. Interns will focus on archaeological investigations, Phase I survey, Phase II site testing, and/or Phase III archaeological data recovery, and the preparation of artifacts and collection for analysis and curation. Students who apply must have completed at least 30 semester hours in an under- graduate program in anthropology, historic preservation, history, or closely related field, and has an overall grade point average of 2.0 out of 4.0. Undergraduate stu- dents who will be graduating in the Spring of 2018 may apply for this internship. For more information about the internships, visit osagenation-nsn.gov/who- we-are/historic-preservation/historic-preservation-osage-youth. For more infor- mation on how Osage youth can get involved with the ON Historic Preservation Office, please contact (918) 287-5328 or email HistoricPreservation@osagena- tion-nsn.gov. Osage News • osagenews.org March 2018 19

• I was able to earn a Master’s and learn more about how we can cal tribe, the development of a 25-unit Candidates Degree because the Osage Na- work together to move the Osage low-income housing tax credit project –from Page 15 tion invested in my future. Nation forward. for an Indian housing authority and a I will fight to secure that in- Thank you, facebook.com/Potts4Con- multi-million-dollar financing project fices. Since 2015, I have been employed vestment for all Osages. gress, www.EliPotts.com, 918.949.0354 (C). for a tribal casino. At the request and as the Budget Analyst with the Osage • As an expectant father, I know direction of the Osage Nation, I have Nation Congress. how beneficial the Health ben- During my time as Congressional assisted with civil litigation concerning efit will be to my family and Budget Analyst, I have gained the ex- the former management of the Osage, yours. I will fight to fully fund perience necessary to serve as your LLC and third parties, which result- the Health Benefit for cur- next Congressman. Through firsthand ed in federal civil prosecution of those rent and future generations. experience, I believe the following is- third parties by the United States Se- sues deserve our attention. • To our Osage elders: I will fully curities and Exchange Commission. support the Plan D-Prescription • In three years, the Nation has I have built solid working relation- Drug coverage and the Medigap utilized three different budgetary ships with tribes and tribal entities supplement for Osage elders. processes to fund the operations throughout Oklahoma, including those of the government. The Nation is • The preservation of our lan- involved with economic development guage is paramount and I sup- on the heels of two unnecessary and social services. I currently serve port our immersion program. Supreme Court decisions regard- as an attorney for the Osage Nation, ing our budget process. Congress • Millions have been lost by our the Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma, the Del- needs to show some leadership and Amanda Proctor LLC’s. We must do better. It’s aware Tribe, the United Keetoowah work with the executive branch time to invest in small proven Band of Cherokee Indians and the Ab- to provide a budgetary process in businesses and their expansion Amanda Proctor announces her sentee Shawnee Housing Authority. I Osage law that both parties can endeavors. It’s time to finally candidacy for Osage Nation Congress agree too. Our national budget de- am well-versed in any and all aspects diversify our business enterprises. Ha.we, wa.zha.zhe zha.ahe, wee. serves consistency and continuity. of federal program compliance, tribal tah: Ponca.me (Amanda Proctor). I self-governance, jurisdiction, corporate • We need strong Congressional These are just some of the ideas I am asking for your support in my ef- due diligence, code development, labor leaders to protect the High- have to move our Nation forward. fort to serve as a member of the Osage We have a lot of work to do. er Education Scholarship Nation Congress. and employment law, and gaming. I hope you’ll visit my webpage and the Health Benefit. I am an attorney of record in the I intend to put this knowledge and case of Fletcher v. United States, which experience to work for the Osage peo- seeks to require the United States to ple. I support the development of a 2018 Stocker Grazing Rights on the Bluestem Ranch account for the alienation of the Osage 12-chair dialysis unit and mobile dial- Established in 2016, the Bluestem Ranch, LLC is an entity of the Osage Nation responsible for Mineral Estate from Osage to non- ysis unit. I also support gaming rev- managing the Bluestem Ranch, a 43,000+ acre cattle/bison operation of the Osage Nation. The ranch lies in Osage County in an area Northwest of Hominy, East of Fairfax, West of Wynona and Osage hands. As such, I am fluent in enue distributions for the benefit of Southwest of Pawhuska, Oklahoma. the 1906 Act and its 13 amendatory the elderly. I support the acquisition Bluestem Ranch, LLC has a twenty-five year lease on the property and has chosen to offer laws. I am a graduate of Harvard Uni- of cultural properties (including his- grazing lease opportunities to interested parties. The proposals will be for three tracts of property versity and the University of Tulsa with varying starting and ending dates dependent on which you choose to bid. The lessee shall toric Osage homes) and restricted land provide the care for their cattle during the period of the lease terms. Bluestem Ranch LLC will College of Law. under individual ownership. I believe not guarantee the loss of any cattle. All cattle must be removed from the property by the last date I am a descendant of Joseph Bou- that our future depends upon access to of the lease, unless additional arrangements have been procured from Bluestem Ranch Board of langer of Elgin, Kansas. I was intro- decent, safe and sanitary housing. Be- Directors. Any cattle remaining on the property 14 days after the lease has ended shall become duced to the Indian cultural community the property of Bluestem Ranch, LLC. cause it is my greatest passion, I will do Bids are to be made on a per head basis for all proposals. The proposals should include a at age 11, and you frequently will find detailed summary of any and all conservation and stewardship plans the applicant will be imple- me dancing in the powwow arena as everything in my power to turn earth menting during the time of the agreement, if awarded. Osage Preference will be applied in award- well as under the arbor in June. for the development of affordable rent- ing the contract. The Bluestem Ranch, LLC reserves the right to reject any and all proposals. al, lease-purchase and assisted-living Successful bidders must adhere to Osage Nation laws and Osage Nation Wildlife Conserva- As a licensed attorney, I have pro- tion Regulations. Any awardee found in violation of any laws, rules or regulations are subject to vided legal counsel and assistance housing communities for Osage people. immediate termination of the agreement. Successful bidders will be required to carry General Li- concerning the acquisition of an exist- [The Osage News does not edit candi- ability insurance and provide an irrevocable letter of credit. A successful bid grants access to the ing retail and office complex by a lo- date announcements.] appointed property for grazing purposes ONLY. NO hunting activity by the successful bidder will be allowed. Payment will be due in full at the time the lease starts and a ten percent (10%) deposit is required at the time the contract is signed. The Bluestem Ranch cowboys will be providing the care to the animals associated with this lease. There is a minimum bid of $90/head. The following sections of property are available for grazing: North Texas Osage Spring Meeting Spring/Summer Grazing – Approximately 6,660 acres of the Bluestem Ranch, at one stocker The North Texas Osage Association will hold their spring meeting from 8:30 per 4 acres. 1,665 maximum head count at no more than 600 pounds each. Start date of April 1, 2018 ending July 4th, 2018. a.m. to 4 p.m. on April 7 in Irving Texas at the Azelea Room in the Holiday Inn In this packet, you should find maps of the ranch and applicable Osage Nation Wildlife Con- Express and Suites. All Osage are invited to attend. There will be an Osage edu- servation Regulations. Please submit a copy of your Osage Nation membership card (if applicable) cational program in the morning followed by candidate speeches in the afternoon. with your bid proposal. Proposals must be received by March 10th, 2018. Send all proposals to: All candidates for Chief, Assistant Chief, Congress and Minerals Council are in- Bluestem Ranch LLC, P.O. Box 1445, Pawhuska, OK vited to speak. Lunch, doughnuts and coffee will be served. You must RSVP to eat 74056 or [email protected] lunch. The Holiday Inn is located at 4550 West John Carpenter Freeway, Irving, Any questions should be emailed to bluestemranchllc@ gmail.com or call 918-287-3835, 918-766-4850. TX 75063. Please RSVP to Jim Ryan on Facebook or email [email protected], or call (210) 825-6747.

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He helped to Rogers of Columbus, OH, his instill in his daughters and step-grandson: Christopher granddaughters the impor- Wilkins of Oklahoma City tance of honoring their heri- and his great-grandaughters tage. He also served the Osage Jaclyn Stevenson and Skylar Joseph Dwain Bates Nation from 1986 to 1994 as a Swords of Ponca City, Gabri- Christine Hamilton-NoEar Tribal Councilman. elle and Isabelle Loughridge Joseph Dwain Bates He was a member of First of Saint Louis, MO., Madeline William Lawrence Hayes Christine Hamilton-NoEar Trout Funeral Home Lutheran Church in Ponca Rogers-Godsey, Natalie and William Lawrence Hayes Christine Joan Hamil- City where he was a member Charlotte Aucoin of Camer- Joseph Dwain Bates, age William Lawrence Hayes, ton-NoEar, 88 years old, of of the choir for many years. on, N.C. and his great-grand- 90, longtime resident of Ponca 89, Retired Cardiologist, died Pawhuska, Oklahoma, passed For a short time, he worked son: Warren Tankersley of City, passed away the evening Monday, Feb. 19, 2018, in away on Friday, Feb. 23, 2018, as a school bus driver for First Orinda, CA. of February 20, 2018 in Ponca Wichita, KS. at her home. Lutheran and later as a Post A Christian funeral service City surrounded by his loving The family will hold a Re- Christine was born in Advisor and Assistant Lead- was conducted by Pastor Jere- family. Pawhuska on Aug. 30, 1929, to er for Lutheran Explorer Post my May February 23, 2018, at membrance of His Life on the Joseph was born in Long- Otto Sr. and Josephine (Pryor) #24. He enjoyed the many ad- First Lutheran Church in Pon- Rio Grande River in Colorado mont, Colorado, on January Hamilton. ventures and learning experi- ca City, Oklahoma. Following this summer. 2, 1928. He was the first-born She worked for the BIA and ences they all shared. the ceremony at the Luther- Preceded in death by his child of Joseph Bates, Jr. and retired from there. Christine After retirement, he was an church Joseph returned parents, Lawrence and Vera Mae (Hinkle) Bates. His child- was a member of the Immac- instrumental in the operation to the Grayhorse Chapel. On Hayes; brother, Lewis L. (Don- hood was spent in Grayhorse, ulate Conception Catholic of the McCord Senior Center, February 24, 2018 a tradi- na) Hayes. Survived by his Church of Pawhuska and the Oklahoma where he attended where he served on the Board tional Osage service was held wife, Marlene Hayes of Wich- Native American Church. elementary school. Later his and helped as a beverage serv- at the Grayhorse Chapel. Fol- ita; sons, Jeffery (Kelly Davis) family moved to a farm in the er during their noon meals. lowing the traditional Osage Hayes of Philadelphia, PA; Christine is survived by bend area of Osage County. He also served many years on ceremony, Joseph was laid to Gregory (fiancé, Stephanie An- her daughter Bonnie Pratt of At the age of 12, “Joe Joe”, as the United Community Action rest next to his beloved wife derson) Hayes of Scottsdale, Pawhuska, eight grandchil- he is known to many, became Program Board based out of and daughter at the Fairfax AZ; sister, Lyla M. Sparks of dren, 19 great-grandchildren, a cadet in the inaugural class Pawnee, Oklahoma. This or- Cemetery. A traditional meal Ponca City, OK; grandchil- 10 great-great-grandchildren, at Ponca Military Academy. ganization oversees a variety followed in the Grayhorse dren, Madeleine Davis-Hayes, and her brother Otto Hamilton He loved life at the Academy of important services for Kay, Community Building. Cecilia Davis-Hayes, Davis Jr. of Pawhuska. where he met many friends Osage, Pawnee, Noble and His girls would like to thank William Hayes, Natalie Hayes. She is preceded in death by and learned many life lessons. Creek counties. all those who cared for our fa- Memorials have been es- her parents, two daughters, He graduated in 1946 and He was preceded in death ther and ‘Poppie’ during his tablished with: Harry Hynes Patricia Murray-Kent and Pa- went on to attend Oklahoma by two infant brothers, his last years to include the nurs- Memorial Hospice, Inc., 313 mela Murray; one son, Law- State University. After two parents, his spouse and one es and doctors at the Critical S. Market, Wichita, KS 67202; rence Murray Jr.; one sister years, he returned to help in daughter, Liana Bates, in No- Care Unit of Alliance Health Great Plains Nature Center, Marjorie Maker; and brothers the family farming operation. vember 2013. Hospital, the staff at Renais- 6232 E. 29th St. N., Wichi- Maurice Hamilton, Melvin While at OSU, he met and He is survived by his daugh- sance Assisted Living, Via ta, KS 67220; Wichita Area Hamilton, Eugene Hamilton married Phyllis Mauree Pick- ters: Teresa Bates (Richard) Christi Village and Health Technical College Foundation, and William Hamilton. ett. To this union were born Rutherford of Ponca City and Back Home Health. 4004 N. Webb Rd., Wichita, Indian Services for Chris- three daughters. After his Stacy Bates (Steve) Laskey of We will greatly miss his con- KS 67226. Downing & Lahey tine were held Feb. 26, divorce, he married Colleen Tulsa, his step-son: Douglas tagious laugh, his warm smile, Mortuary - East Chapel. Share 2018, at the Wakon Iron Dugan Wilkins. Although (Kathy) Wilkins of Oklaho- his zest for life and his love tributes online at: www.dl- See Obituaries they made their home in Pon- ma City his granddaughters: of God and his Osage people. wichita.com. —Continued on Page 21 Classifieds OSAGE NATION JOBS: To unrestricted Nurse Practitioner Males must be able to fit a size 36 experience preferred. Regular full position related to assigned duties apply for a position with the certification in specialty area. Reg- waist for men’s attire. High School time. required. Regular full time. ular full time. Salary: $73,600 - Diploma/GED. Regular part time. Osage Nation go to www. Guest Services Representative Dishwasher – Bartlesville Must $110,300 osagenation-nsn.gov/oppor- Security Officer – Sand Springs – Bartlesville Must be 18 years be 18 years of age. Regular full tunities/job-listings/applica- Child Development Associate High School Diploma/GED and 6 of age. High School Diploma/GED time. tion-form. – WELA Skiatook Associate’s months of previous work experi- and 6 months of previous work ex- Bartender – Bartlesville High Degree in Early Childhood Devel- ence. Gaming Hospitality or Cus- perience. Regular full time. Applicants are welcome to at- School Diploma/GED. Six months opment or related field preferred tomer Service industry preferred. tach a resume and/or cover letter Marketing Specialist – Tulsa customer service experience pre- or actively working toward this de- Regular full time. in addition. Please note that all Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing, ferred. Must be 21 years of age. gree. Child Development Associate applicants tentatively selected Guest Services Representa- Sales, or related field. Must be 21 Regular full time. (CDA) certification or related field for employment with the Osage tive – Hominy Must be 18 years years of age or older. Two years of preferred or working toward com- Casino Host – Tulsa Must be at Nation will be required to sub- of age. High School Diploma/GED marketing and promotion experi- pletion within eight (8) months. least 21 years of age. High School mit to a urinalysis to screen for and 6 months of previous work ex- ence. Regular full time. High School Diploma or GED re- Diploma or GED. Equivalent re- illegal drug use. Employment perience. Regular full time. will be contingent upon drug quired. Regular full time. Salary: Main Bank Cashier – Sand quired. Two years of high volume test results. OSAGE / VETER- $13.00/hour Short Order Cook – Ponca City Springs High school diploma or casino hospitality business experi- Six (6) months of previous work GED required. Prior cash – han- AN / INDIAN PREFERENCE Osage Nation Education De- ence required. Equivalent combi- experience in the food industry. dling experience required. Re- IS CONSIDERED. Verification partment Internship Osage nation of education and experience quires experience in guest services of preference must be included Nation Education Department Must be 18 years of age. Regular will be considered in lieu of sec- or casino operations; prior cage with application. For questions Internship Program is designed to full time. ondary educational requirement. cashier experience preferred. Reg- please contact Taryn Crawford, provide Osage students with work Shift Supervisor – Bartlesville Regular full time. ular full time. Osage Nation Employee Recruit- experience in their chosen field of Must be at least 18 years of age. Buffet Attendant – Bartlesville ment Specialist at (918) 287-5445 study. The program is designed Bachelor’s degree in Business Ad- Food and Beverage Supervi- High School Diploma/GED and 6 or email tcrawford@osagena- to serve enrolled members of the ministration, Hospitality or Gam- sor – Bartlesville High School months of previous work experi- tion-nsn.gov. Osage Nation with a minimum of ing plus three (3) months of job Diploma/GED. One year of food ence. Gaming, Hospitality or Cus- 61+ hours completed in an accred- related work experience to include and beverage experience. Must be Certification/Issuance Clerk – tomer Service industry preferred. ited college or university degree casino operations and supervisory 21 years of age. Regular full time. Pawhuska High School Diploma Some experience in food service is program. Regular Temporary Full experience in a related depart- or GED equivalent or Associate’s Cocktail Server – Sand Springs preferred. Regular full time. Time. ment or business or an Associate’s degree in Health or Social Services Must be at least 18 years of age. degree in Business Administra- Casino Host – Pawhuska Must preferred. At least two years’ expe- OSAGE CASINO JOBS: To ap- Females must be able to fit a size tion, Management, and six (6) be at least 21 years of age. High rience in related field. Must obtain ply for a position with Osage 8 or smaller for women’s attire. months or more on job related School Diploma or GED. Equiva- and maintain or remain compliant Casino go to www.osagecasi- Males must be able to fit a size 36 work experience to include casino lent required. Two years of high on nutrition or para-professional nos.com/careers waist for men’s attire. High School operations and supervisory expe- volume casino hospitality business training curriculum. Regular full Diploma/GED.Regular part time. Guest Services Representative rience in a related department or experience required. Equivalent time. Salary: $13.29 - $19.94/hour – Tulsa Must be 18 years of age. business; or High School Diploma/ Cocktail Server – Sand Springs combination of education and ex- Regulatory Compliance Agent High School Diploma/GED and 6 GED and one (1) year of job related Must be at least 18 years of age. perience will be considered in lieu – Pawhuska Associate’s degree or months of previous work experi- work experience to include casino Females must be able to fit a size of secondary educational require- equivalent regulatory experience ence. Regular full time. operations and supervisory expe- 8 or smaller for women’s attire. ment. Regular full time. Males must be able to fit a size 36 in gaming, compliance, inspection, Short Order Cook – Hominy rience in a related department or Cocktail Server – Bartlesville waist for men’s attire. High School or investigation background pre- Six (6) months of previous work business. Regular full time. Must be at least 18 years of age. ferred. Criminal Justice training Diploma/GED.Regular full time. experience in the food industry. Dishwasher – Tulsa Must be 18 Females must be able to fit a size preferred. Regular full time. Sala- Must be 18 years of age. Regular years of age. Regular full time. Restaurant Server – Sand 8 or smaller for women’s attire. ry: $37,700 - $59,500 full time. Springs Must be at least 18 years Males must be able to fit a size 36 Security Officer – Ponca City of age. High School Diploma/GED Medical Officer – Pawhuska EVS Attendant – Ponca City waist for men’s attire. High School High School Diploma/GED and 6 required. Regular full time. Requires an active, unrestricted Six months experience in custom- Diploma/GED. Regular full time. months of previous work experi- license to practice medicine in the er service or hospitality. Must be EVS Attendant – Skiatook Six ence. Gaming Hospitality or Cus- Marketing Database Analyst – State of Oklahoma. 1-2 years’ ex- 18 years of age or older. Regular months experience in customer tomer Service industry preferred. Tulsa Must be at least 21 years of perience preferred. Must maintain full time. service or hospitality. Must be 18 Regular full time. age. Bachelor’s Degree in Business professional attitude and appear- years of age or older. Regular full Electronic Gaming Technician Administration, Marketing, MIS ance that positively represents the Casino Services Agent – Bar- time. I – Tulsa Must be at least 21 years or substantially related field plus Nation. Regular full time. Salary: tlesville Must be 18 years of age of age. High School Diploma/GED Administrative Assistant – Fa- a minimum of two (2) years’ expe- $153,400 - $230,000 or older. High School Diploma/ required. One (1) year of electron- cilities – Tulsa Must be at least rience in casino gaming industry; GED. Prior cash handling experi- Sergeant At Arms – Pawhus- ic gaming machine experience re- 21 years of age. High School Diplo- or five (5) years’ experience- pro ence required. Previous direct cus- ka Enforce order and decorum quired. Regular full time. ma or GED plus three (3) years’ ex- gressively responsible experience tomer service experience required. for members and all individuals perience in an office environment, in analytics and reporting. Regu- Bartender – Ponca City High Regular full time. present at a session/meeting, and lar full time. School Diploma/GED. Six months preferably in a casino; or an equiv- execute demands at the direction Entertainment Technician – customer service experience pre- alent combination of education Short Order Cook – Bartles- of the presiding officer, including Tulsa High School Diploma or ferred. Must be 21 years of age. and office experience. Intermedi- ville Six (6) months of previous contracting Congressional mem- GED. Six months customer service Regular part time. ate skills in MS Office products, work experience in the food indus- bers to return to session following experience preferred. Previous including PowerPoint, Excel, and try. Must be 18 years of age. Regu- recesses. Regular part time. Sala- Short Order Cook – Tulsa Six event setup experience preferred. Word required. Regular full time. lar full time. ry: $13.29 - $19.94/hour (6) months of previous work expe- Must be 18 years of age or older. Maintenance Technician – rience in the food industry. Must Regular full time. I.T. Database Analyst – Tulsa Nurse Practitioner – Pawhus- Must be at least be 18 years of age. Regular full Sand Springs Three years previous database ad- ka Must be a graduate of an Main Bank Cashier – Ponca 18 years of age. High School Di- time. ministration experience. Must be accredited Nurse Practitioner City High school diploma or GED ploma/GED and 6 months of pre- 21 years of age. Bachelor’s Degree Program. Current and unrestrict- Cocktail Server – Ponca City required. Prior cash – handling vious work experience. Gaming, in Computer Science, MIS, IT or ed Advance Practice Registered Must be at least 18 years of age. experience required. Requires ex- Hospitality or Customer Service related field preferred. Regular Nurse (APRN) Licensure in the Females must be able to fit a size perience in guest services or casi- industry preferred. Minimal of full time. state of Oklahoma. Current and 8 or smaller for women’s attire. no operations; prior cage cashier two to three years of experience in Opinion March 2018 21 Obituaries Without Reservations –from Page 20 Chapel in Pawhuska with Johnny Redeagle officiating. Funeral Services were held Feb. 26 at the Immaculate Conception Catho- lic Church in Pawhuska with Father Sean Donovan officiating. Pallbearers were: Myron Redeagle, Jasper Clark, Oliver Littlecook, Corbin Malone, KC Bills, Michael Kidder, Nate West, and Sean Standing Bear. The Head Cook will be Katy Tingtella, Cedar Man will be Timmy Lookout, and Water- men will be William and Timmy Shad- low. Interment to follow at Pawhuska City Cemetery.

William Napoleon McGuire William Napoleon McGuire, 90, of Pawhuska, Okla., passed away on Thursday, Jan. 11, 2018 at The Journey Home Hospice House in Bartlesville. Affectionately known for his fun-lov- ing, easygoing, kind hearted nature, “Grampa” or “PGUM” as he was nick- named by family in his younger days, will be sorely missed. Bill was an Osage Tribal Member with Chippewa and Wyandotte lineage Cartoon © Santo Domingo Pueblo Cartoon Artist, Ricardo Caté as well. He was born on Feb. 21, 1927 in El Centro, Calif. He grew up with his his lifetime. From successfully broker- of music and never turned down a good Guire and Josephine Howard; his son many siblings in Los Angeles, Calif. He ing deals as a middleman, to running road trip. Bill was a voracious reader, a Gordon McGuire, and both of his wives, proudly served his country in both the his own nursery supply business in the huge history buff and a wonderful sto- Jeanne Carlton McGuire Reid, and US Merchant Marine, joining at age 1970’s, he truly loved every aspect of ryteller. He told the best jokes! Kaye Woltman. 17, as well as in the U.S. Army being sales and marketing. In the 80’s it was In his later years, it was his pleasure Bill is survived by his daughter, Anne stationed in post-war Germany. Bill Real Estate, in the 90’s it was Jewelry, to live independently back in Pawhus- “Missy” Emerson McGuire Drevick, his graduated from Stanford University’s while the 2000’s have been all about ka, Okla. He could often be found work- grandson Dax Rodman Drevick, his Graduate School of Business, becom- Vending and Gold Prospecting & Sales. ing in his garden on 10th St. or helping granddaughter Lisa Jeanine Drevick ing a stockbroker with Merrill Lynch. His enthusiastic entrepreneurial spir- customers out at ALCO. His energetic Carey and his two great-grandchildren Living and working in New York in the it was always his lifelong passion and personality, warm smile, and delight- Jacob and Jaycee Carey. Along with 50’s, he met his future wife, Jeanne driving force. ful sense of humor were a joy to behold. Murray Carlton whom he married and Bill loved being outdoors. He enjoyed He truly touched a lot of lives and we a very large clan of nieces, nephews, started his family with. They moved taking nice long walks, jogging on the are all the richer for it. As he would cousins and many dear friends we will out west to La Jolla, Calif., in the beach and running marathons with his say, “Praise God!” all miss “Gramps” very much. early 1960’s. son Gordon. He learned how to surf at Preceded in death by his parents, In lieu of flowers the family is ask- Bill reveled in owning and operating age 40 and went skydiving at age 86! Leo and Ora McGuire, his four siblings, ing for any donations to be made to the various business ventures throughout He was always a huge fan of all types Patsy Fisher, Bird McGuire, Tony Mc- charity or local hospice of your choice.

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Under his administration the Nation Debates has stopped the loss of tribal land, and –from Page 5 instead is gaining it, he said. When he Standing Bear said the plan is the negotiated and signed for the purchase 25-year Strategic Plan because that is of the Bluestem Ranch, “it was a turn- how they are set up and it’s accessible ing point for us.” His administration to anybody “including the Congress.” has purchased approximately 6,000 He said the Congress can get a month- acres of fractionated lands with the ly statement from the Treasurer on help of the federal government. “There what the Executive Branch’s expendi- is no mortgage or loan on any of this tures are and each department has a land,” he said. Four years ago, he was program plan of what they plan to do told the Osage language was nearing each year, and both are public record. extinction, and today after the devel- “There is nothing being hidden here. If opment of the Osage Language School, the Congress doesn’t know it’s because strong support of the Osage language they haven’t read their mail. It’s right program and the development of the there in front of us. Everything we do Osage language app, “we can now hear is transparent.” He said that everybody the language spoken, especially with can have a plan, but they have to ex- our young.” He said they have issued ecute on it and make things happen. the Nation’s first water well permit “All that you’ve seen us do with this ad- under the Nation’s flag and has initi- ministration are good Osages, working ated negotiations for the Nation’s new together to make something happen. gaming compact. “I was the first trib- We’ve got a good future ahead of us, al leader to ask to expand our gam- let’s keep it up.” ing to include more Las Vegas-style gaming.” He recently met with the Closing statements Lieutenant Governor of the state of Whitehorn said the message she Missouri, next Speaker of the House of hopes everyone takes home is “we have the state of Missouri on opportunities to cooperate. We have to develop our for the Osage Nation, “all in a limited economic development base. Because amount of time. My team and I ask you the chief talks about a plan, we’ve for another 48 months to continue on been involved in lawsuits because we this path. We need more people to work asked for information and the informa- with and we hope you are proud of the tion was not forthcoming. Either the work we have done.” information does not exist, or he just The Osage Nation Election Day is thinks he doesn’t need to cooperate to June 4 at the ON Museum on the Osage propel this Nation forward. That was Campus in Pawhuska. Early Voting the crux of the matter for the lawsuits will be June 1-2 at the ON Election Of- we got into.” She said she will perform fice in downtown Pawhuska. The dead- her duties as chief for all Osages and line to submit absentee ballot requests communicating with all Osages. Eco- to the Election Office is April 20. For nomic Development is key and needs to more information on the election, visit get going, she said. She said 80 percent of Osages want proper budgeting and the Election Office website at https:// they can’t do that without good commu- www.osagenation-nsn.gov/what-we- nication. “The 25-year plan was an idea. do/elections We require our enterprises to submit To watch the video of the Principal us plans. Bluestem Ranch board has Chief and Assistant Principal Chief submitted us an excellent plan. They Candidate Debates, visit https://www. give us their short-term plans, mid- osagenation-nsn.gov/multimedia/ range plans and long-term plans. Ev- live-media ery government should have one, every The Osage News wishes to thank the government that spends your dollar ... Osage Nation Communications Team I want to plan, I want to communicate, for live streaming the debate on Feb. and I sure hope you can come out and 17. We would also like to thank the support me as your chief.” League of Women Voters of Metropol- Standing Bear said, “The Osage Su- itan Tulsa for moderating the event preme Court has supported our position and the Osage Casinos for sponsoring twice (against the Osage Congress).” the event. Osage News • osagenews.org March 2018 23