Follow us on Twitter #CATribalTribune CheyenneandArapaho-nsn.gov Aug. 15, 2020 -Vol. 16, Issue 16 Groundbreaking Ceremony for New El Reno Indian Health Center Aug. 27 (EL RENO, OK) El Reno Indian Health Center will take a long awaited step forward on Aug. 27, 2020 with the ground breaking for the new El Reno Indian Health Center at 11 a.m. Social distancing measures and masks will be required for all who attend this event. The 16,000 square-foot fa- cility will provide much need- ed space to expand health care services to include dental, op- tometry, podiatry, audiology, general radiology, and physi- cal therapy. The new facility will allow for existing services of primary care, pediatrics, pharmacy, laboratory, wound care, health information man- agement, benefit coordination, integrated behavioral health, public health nursing, pur- chased/referred care, nutrition, the facility to accommodate not only the existing services, but May 2013. Prior to the clinic’s closure, the facility had over and administration to be expanded. Construction is expected house new services as well. This will eliminate the travel to 18,000 visits a year. to be completed in October of 2021. The new facility will Clinton and surrounding clinics for dental services and other Clinton Service Unit, working with the Cheyenne and be located directly to the east of the current facility at 1801 new services provided by Indian Health Services,” Cheyenne Arapaho Tribes, reestablished limited medical services to the Parkview Drive. and Arapaho Tribes’ Gov. Reggie Wassana said. El Reno Indian Health Center on May 31, 2014. The current “The groundbreaking marks the start of bringing a new El Reno Indian Health Center was closed for approxi- 4,458 square-foot space is physically smaller than the previ- Indian Health facility to El Reno. The Tribes are proud, and mately one year after the facility located on Route 66 suf- ous facility on Route 66. The reduction in space decreased excited, to be a big part of this transformation. We will build fered damage beyond repair from a 2.6-mile wide tornado in EL RENO INDIAN HEALTH CENTER / pg. 7 Darlington Public School Reopens With In-Person Learning Linda ‘Lindy’ Zotigh was murdered in September 2017. Hammon Man To Serve Life In Federal Prison for 2017 Murder OKLAHOMA CITY – Tommy Dean Bullcoming, 56, of Hammon, Okla., was Editor-in-Chief Rosemary Stephens, sentenced Aug. 10, 2020 by On Thursday, Aug. 6 Darlington ilies would be calling because of true U.S. District Court Judge Public School teachers welcome back medical issues within their homes, put- Charles B. Goodwin to serve their students and parents, much like ting them into a high risk for severe life in federal prison for the every year prior, except for two obvious COVID-19. Also students who have first-degree felony murder of exceptions. The students wore masks asthma or their pediatricians told them Linda “Lindy” Zotigh, and and were pre-screened with temperature it would be best not to attend because of related offenses, announced checks. the difficulty of wearing a mask all day U.S. Attorney Timothy J. A new “normal” many parents and and also being at high risk. Downing. In addition, Bull- students are facing as they return to “It is frustrating for a parent that has coming was ordered to pay in-person classrooms throughout the to return to work and trying to make a $17,613 in restitution for state. decision about virtual learning … this damage to the victim’s home Darlington was one of a handful of whole situation is horrible, but if you and vehicle as well as funeral schools to open, located in El Reno, are going to weigh a parent or grand- expenses. Okla., and by day four their ‘Return to parent dying to a student being in the A five-count Learn’ plan was still moving forward classroom, I would have to choose my indictment unsealed on smoothly and better than expected. kid staying home. It’s an individual de- April 6, 2018, charged Darlington’s enrollment for the cision and it’s just hard on the parents Bullcoming with crimes he Kindergartener at Darlington 2020-2021 school year landed about and grandparents as well as our stu- committed on Sept. 6, 2017: where they usually are every year with dents,” Musae said. first-degree premeditated 235 students. Approximately 50 of Some of the protective measures murder, first-degree felony Joey Halfred murder, carjacking resulting Public School those students chose to do virtual learn- Darlington has put into place include ing versus in-person classes. dividing the majority of their class- in death, kidnapping result- “We didn’t promote the online learn- rooms into two classes, with an assis- ing in death, and arson. The ing, we just put it out there to reach out tant on one side, the teacher on the oth- indictment stated he “used to us if there was a need because that’s er side, with a camera that projects the force, violence, and intimi- the way we wanted to handle that, not teacher to a smart TV to the side where dation to intentionally take just automatically jump into it, but let’s the assistant is, so the students can still a Lexus RX300” from an talk about it first,” Gina Musae, Dar- see and hear their teacher. Indian and that this resulted lington School principal said. “We are doing the majority of our in death. It further alleged Musae said they knew some fam- daily classwork on line so they are prac- he killed the victim “by stab- bing and cutting her with a sharp object.” The arson DARLINGTON SCHOOL REOPENS / pg. 4 LIFE IN PRISON / pg. 7 PAGE 2 Cheyenne & Arapaho Tribal Tribune Tsistsistas & Hinonoei Why ‘Come and Get Your Love’ now? After 46 years ‘the time has come’ Sandra Hale Schulman, Indian Country Today As an enduring pop hit, Redbone’s “Come and Get Your a spiritual, religious and universal love. When we say in the Love” has had millions of plays on air and on YouTube with song ‘Come and get your love, get it from the main vine,’ that the pioneering rock band’s visually powerful performance on connects to Mother Earth. We are all longing for love.” TV’s “The Midnight Special” in 1974, when the song was Approaching the storyline of the film, Mexican pro- released. ducer and director Bedolla, who has garnered two Emmy That clip begins with a powwow dancer performing in nominations and multiple Telly and Addy awards, found Award winning artist, Brent Learned, a citizen of the front of the band, introducing millions to a Native traditional Oklahoma Native American artist Brent Learned through In- Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, is the creator of the visuals dance they had most likely never seen before. stagram and asked him to help. in the new music video featuring Redbone’s popular 1974 In 2014, the mega-budget sci-fi film “Guardians of the “We wanted to tell a bigger story here,” Bedolla says from hit, “Come and Get Your Love.” (Photo / David McNess) Galaxy” used the song in a key opening scene and on the of- Los Angeles. “We wanted to showcase the culture, not just ficial soundtrack, garnering a whole new generation of fans. the band, so the story became a spiritual traveler who leaves But the infectious, bouncy song with a message of earthy home to explore a new world.” and universal love never had an official video from the band. They planned to shoot footage, but the pandemic hit, and Until now. they had to shift gears and go with animation. Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music The resulting video was inspired by “graffiti, traditional Entertainment, has released a new music video for “Come images, the future and reexamining pop-culture imagery in and Get Your Love,” pulling in an Emmy-nominated direc- the context of contemporary events,” Bedolla said. tor, Juan Bedolla, and an award-winning Native artist, Brent “The film’s mythic traveler moves from his reservation Learned, to create the visuals. eventually to outer space,” he said. “There’s a lot going on in “Come and Get Your Love” was released as a single on each frame, with multiple scenarios. Pat had some input, and Epic Records in January 1974. The band took its name from the band appears in several places throughout the film.” a Cajun term for multiracial individuals as its members have Learned, an enrolled member of the Cheyenne-Arapaho Yaqui, Shoshone and Mexican heritage. The group’s core mu- Tribes of Oklahoma, has artwork in museums including the sicians, brothers Patrick and Candido “Lolly” Vasquez-Vegas, Smithsonian Institute-National Museum of the American In- were born in Coalinga, California, moved to Los Angeles in dian in Washington, D.C., and the Cheyenne/Arapaho Muse- 1959 and performed for a decade on the club scene as Pat and um in Clinton, Oklahoma. Redbone members Pat Vegas, Pete DePoe, Lolly Vegas Lolly Vegas before founding Redbone. He says the time-traveling central figure in the film is an and Tony Bellamy (Photo: Sony Music Entertainment) Redbone was the first Native American band to achieve “expression of universality.” a Top 5 single on the Billboard Hot 100. The genre-defying “This is a commentary on an overarching idea repeated The book is an intriguing telling of the high-flying career group mixes a unique blend of deep funk, Tex-Mex R&B, throughout the video, that of seeking our love/interests in all of Pat and Lolly Vegas, illuminating key pieces of American some soul and authentic Native American tribal beats.