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In-Lon-Schka GRAYHORSE • HOMINY • PAWHUSKA Volume 11, Issue 7 • July 2015 The Official Newspaper of the Osage Nation CHALENE TOEHAY/Osage News The Pawhuska dance arbor was finished the day before the dance started, with concrete poured for the Grayhorse District sidewalk that Wednesday. The freshly laid sod was soft as dancers stuck to the sidewalks on the first day of the dance. By the end of the Pawhuska In-Lon-Schka, dancers and their families praised the structure and the sound quality of the singing. TARA MADDEN/Osage News Gideon Goodeagle, Jr., is the new Hominy SHANNON SHAW DUTY/Osage News District Drumkeeper. Corlin, Will and Logan Cass look inside the Hominy Roundhouse for the first time. Nor- mally closed to the public, the roundhouse was once used as the dance arbor for the Gideon Goodeagle, Hominy In-Lon-Schka, and other dances. Jr., is Hominy Hominy Roundhouse TARA MADDEN/Osage News District’s new Berbon K. Hamilton, the new Pawhuska Dis- to be restored trict Drumkeeper. Drumkeeper Shannon Shaw Duty Osage News Osage News Berbon K. Hamilton, Twelve-year-old Gideon Goodeagle, Seeing the inside of the Hominy Roundhouse was a rare sight for Osages Jr., has been selected as the next Hom- arriving for the Hominy In-Lon-Schka dances. the new Pawhuska iny Drumkeeper. The starting day of the Hominy dances, June 11, Principal Chief Geoffrey Goodeagle, Jr., is a 7th grader Standing Bear and other Osage dignitaries and employees, were walking in District Drumkeeper from Hominy, Okla., and is the son of and around the historic roundhouse, inspecting its condition. Gideon Goodeagle, Sr. and son of Deb- Standing Bear said while he was walking in the Hominy Village after Osage News bie Murray. He and his family will be Osage County underwent heavy rainstorms, he noticed the roof of the responsible for hosting the Hominy roundhouse sagging and dangerously close to collapsing. He called Bruce Berbon K. Hamilton, has been select- In-Lon-Schka and taking care of the Cass, director of the Tribal Development and Land Acquisition, declared it ed as the next Pawhuska Drumkeeper. district’s members, along with many an emergency and found a contractor who would do repairs under $7,000. Hamilton, 16, is a Junior at Se- more cultural responsibilities. Goodea- Inside the roundhouse new beams and woodwork could be seen holding quoyah High School in Tahlequah, gle, Jr., was given the drum on Sunday up the roof. Osages used to hold the In-Lon-Schka inside the roundhouses Cherokee Nation. He is the son of Ber- of this year’s Hominy In-Lon-Schka before they moved to arbors. Very few photos exist of dancers dancing inside bon Hamilton and Angela Hammer. He from William Shunkamolah and his the roundhouses. The roundhouse is a symbol of an Osage past, but a past and his family will be responsible for family, as is custom. Shunkamolah was many remember. In the 1980s the Hominy roundhouse was still used for hosting the Pawhuska In-Lon-Schka Drumkeeper for seven years. See ROUNDHOUSE and taking care of the district’s mem- See HOMINY —Continued on Page 4 See PAWHUSKA —Continued on Page 4 —Continued on Page 4 INSIDE THE OSAGE NEWS FOLLOW THE OSAGE NEWS ONLINE In-Lon-Schka 2015 . 2, 9,10, 11,12, 19 Sports . 15 • Breaking news at osagenews.org Skiatook Catholic Church Incorporates Osage Culture . 3 Culture Column . 16 • facebook.com/osagenews Osage Language Immersion Program . 3 Community . 17 • twitter.com/osagenews Shareholder Celebrates 100th Birthday. 5 Obituaries | Classifieds | Opinion . 18 • flickr.com/osagenews 2 July 2015 Osage News • osagenews.org CHALENE TOEHAY/Osage News A small boy admires a beaded me- dallion on a man’s otter hide be- fore entering the arbor at the Gray- horse In-Lon-Schka. See pages 9, 10, 11, 12, and 19 for more color In-Lon-Schka photos from In-Lon-Schka. GRAYHORSE • HOMINY • PAWHUSKA BENNY POLACCA/Osage News Principal Chief Geoffrey Standing Bear, Byron Bighorse and Ben Standing Bear walk to the Pawhuska arbor. 619 Kihekah • Pawhuska, OK 74056 (918) 287-5668 www.osagenews.org Editor Shannon Shaw Duty Reporter Benny Polacca Features / Multimedia Reporter Tara Madden Editorial Assistant Chalene Toehay Osage News Editorial Board Members Jerri Jean Branstetter BENNY POLACCA/Osage News Lu King Town Crier Caesar Williams rings the bell to let the dancers know it’s time to dance, despite an approaching Teresa Trumbly Lamsam thunder and lightning storm. Osage News • osagenews.org July 2015 3 SHANNON SHAW DUTY/Osage News Father Ken Iheanacho gives his homily for Father’s Day mass at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Skiatook. Dave Crenshaw/Eastern Oklahoma Catholic Principal Chief Geoffrey Standing Bear with Osage tribal member Sherri Mashburn inside the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Skiatook. Skiatook Catholic Church incorporates Osage culture Shannon Shaw Duty Osage News As Father Ken Iheanacho said his homily for his Father’s Day mass at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Skiatook, he wore eye-catching new vestments and moved about very colorful altar cloths. SHANNON SHAW DUTY/Osage News “Some of you may have noticed our new altar cloths and my Father Ken Iheanacho and Osage tribal member Sherri Mashburn explain the new vestments and altar cloths vestments,” he said. And with a smile he added, “They look pret- adorned with Osage ribbonwork and yarn work at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Skiatook on June 21. ty good.” Father Ken joins Father Chris Daigle, the priest for the Im- maculate Conception Catholic Church in Pawhuska, whose vest- ments and altar cloths are adorned with Osage ribbon work and Osage yarn work. Osage tribal member Sherri Mashburn, who attends the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Skiatook, said the new vest- ments carry on the vision of Father White, a former priest at the church. White did a lot of research on the Osage and renovated the church to include Osage history and art in 1998, she said. The woodwork on the altar of the church also includes Osage imagery. The depictions of the Archangel Gabriel, Archangel Mi- chael and the Saint Kateri Tekakwitha, displays them dressed in Osage clothes. Osage warrior icons also adorn the walls and incorporate gold leaf and silver. “Our Sacred Heart Church holds a great deal of history and many nationalities among our parishioners. We celebrate today our Osage history with our county, our church and our communi- ty,” Mashburn said. “The new vestments and altar cloths are to compliment the history and vision of what Father White started. So now, Father Ken will carry on the tradition with a lot of histo- ry in our church and I look forward to see what we can grow and what more we can add to our parishioners and to our church.” Mashburn recognized the owners of the Pawhuska-based Ce- dar Chest shop, Julie O’Keefe and Danette Daniels, as well as Debra Atterberry/Courtesy Photo Faith Fenner, who were there for the work on the vestments and L to R: Janis Carpenter, a Cochiti Pueblo Governor, Chief Standing Bear and a language immersion teacher from altar cloths. the Keres Children’s Learning Center at Cochiti Pueblo, N.M. are shown a sacred dance ground of the pueblo. “They were the ones who collaborated with me on coming up with this design and putting everything together for us,” Mash- burn said. Father Ken, who is from Nigeria and has been a priest in Ski- Chief Standing Bear forging atook for a year, has lived in America for more than 18 years. He started his career in Tulsa, at Saint Francis Church and was there for three months. He then continued his career in Stillwa- ahead with Osage language ter for two-and-a-half years, Tahlequah for six years and then again in Tulsa for nine years. Parishioner Emily Black, Osage, who grew up in California immersion program but always visited with her grandmother in June for In-Lon-Sch- “So when I stepped outside Atterberry, Wah-Zha-Zhi Ear- ka, said she has been going to the Sacred Heart Church for about Shannon Shaw Duty of the classrooms, I heard the ly Learning Center Director eight years in Skiatook. Osage News children speaking English and Clair Wood, Language Depart- “What you heard this morning is what we hear every Sunday. Fueled from a recent trip some Ute, but in the classrooms ment Instructor Janis Carpen- He is a very dynamic speaker, a wonderful teacher and we are to the Cochiti Pueblo in New it’s only the Ute language,” he ter and Education Task Force totally blessed to have him here with us,” she said. “I saw the Mexico and the Southern Ute said of the Southern Ute Mon- Chair Melvina Prather visited [vestments and altar cloths] when Sherri first received them and of Colorado in May, Principal tessori school. “They told me their day care and Montessori I think they are absolutely astounding. I think they are just gor- Chief Geoffrey Standing Bear it’s very important to have two school. geous, with the ribbon work and the finger weaving on them, I is forging ahead with his lan- fluent speakers present, in the What the delegation wit- just can’t say enough words on how beautiful they are and how guage immersion program room so the children can see nessed at Cochiti Pueblo were children under the age of three happy I am to see that.” – whether the Nation’s em- interaction between two fluent speakers. They do have a lot of in a “language nest,” Standing Special blessings were said for Mashburn and her husband ployees are ready or not.