Area Youth Create Photo Magic PAGE 9 Volume 14, Issue 9 • August 2018 The Official Newspaper of the Osage Nation Osages take oaths of office at Inauguration ceremony Benny Polacca Osage News PONCA CITY, Okla. – A new chapter in Osage SHANNON SHAW DUTY/Osage News Nation government his- tory started here on July Principal Chief Geoffrey Standing Bear gives his address 14 with Inauguration at the 2018 Osage Nation Inauguration on July 14 at the Day for the elected gov- Osage Casino in Ponca City. ernment officials who took their oaths of office in front of their fami- lies, friends, fellow com- Standing Bear makes munity members and fellow Osages. address at Inauguration, Osages elected or re-elected to office in the June 4 ON general adding ‘We can do more’ election and Osage Min- Benny Polacca SHANNON SHAW DUTY/Osage News erals Council election Osage News took their oaths with ON Osage elected officials sit on the front row and wait to take their oaths of office at the 2018 Supreme Court Chief Osage Nation Inauguration on July 14 at the Osage Casino in Ponca City. PONCA CITY, Okla. – In his second inauguration Justice Meredith Drent speech to the Osage Nation and community mem- presiding. Drent admin- 2014 and 2016 inaugura- the event and introduced guage Fair earlier this tions. The event opened students from the Osage year and “placed first in bers, re-elected Principal Chief Geoffrey Standing istered the oaths follow- Bear lauded the Nation’s government history and ing her own swearing-in with members from the Language Immersion their category” against recognized several entities that supported the ac- conducted by outgoing Harold Bigheart Smalley School who delivered a other tribes with fluent complishments made during his administration’s ON Trial Court Chief American Legion Post “very special” invoca- language speakers. first term in office. Judge Marvin Stepson. No. 198 posting the flag tion – The Lord’s Prayer The audience reacted Standing Bear and other elected officials took More than 100 people colors, and opening songs in the Osage language. with a standing ovation, their oaths of office on July 14 at the Ponca City attended the Nation’s in- sung by an Osage drum Bighorse also noted cheers, and women’s lu- auguration ceremony in group. the immersion school lus after the students’ Osage Casino where more than 100 people attend- the Osage Casino hotel’s Vann Bighorse, the students competed at performance. “These ed the inauguration ceremony. Other Osages taking Elm Room, which was ON Language Depart- the Oklahoma Native See INAUGURATION See ADDRESS also the venue for the ment director, emceed American Youth Lan- —Continued on Page 19 —Continued on Page 7 First class of Osage Nation Educational Leadership Academy receive master’s degrees Shannon Shaw Duty ucation Department or other Osage News service-based departments that reach Osage youth. SKIATOOK, Okla. – Fam- Dr. Alex Red Corn, an ilies and friends honored and Osage professor at KSU and celebrated the first class of the driving force behind the the Osage Nation Educational program said he was very Leadership Academy at their proud of each one of the grad- graduation today. uates, the sacrifice they made The graduates received from their jobs and their fam- ilies and looked forward to their Master of Science in Ed- their upcoming achievements ucation Leadership from Kan- Osage News 2016 File Photo in education. He said the sec- sas State University, which is RJ Walker has been elected by his ond class of the ONELA will the first-ever partnership be- All photos by SHANNON SHAW DUTY/Osage News peers to serve as Congressional begin this fall. tween a major university and Speaker of the Sixth Osage Nation The first class of the Osage Nation Educational Leadership Academy, “The program is intended a tribal nation to advance the Congress. a partnership between the Osage Nation and Kansas State University. to train educational leaders education of its members who From left: Dana Daylight, Mary Wildcat, Coley Streater, Boyna Bear, Lau- on the reservation while they are reservation-based. ren Long, Cameron Pratt, Manon Taylor, Joni Hall and Amanda McKinley. stayed in their positions at the RJ Walker Graduating with their Nation and allow us to build master’s degrees were Boy- McKinley, Cameron Pratt, graduates work for the Osage the capacity in Osage educa- na Bear, Dana Daylight, Joni Coley Streater, Manon Tay- Nation and all work in some tion,” Red Corn said. elected as ON Hall, Lauren Long, Amanda lor and Mary Wildcat. All the capacity for the Nation’s Ed- He said the two-year mas- ter’s program pulled from Congressional mainstream educational con- cepts and helped the students Fourth Osage Minerals Council learn in an Osage-specific con- Speaker by text as it relates to working at the Osage Nation. colleagues takes their oaths of office Among the graduates were two sisters, Mary Wildcat and Lenzy Krehbiel-Burton Benny Polacca Dana Daylight. Wildcat is the Osage News Osage News ON Education Department director and her older sister, RJ Walker is now Congres- The Fourth Osage Minerals Daylight, is a cultural curricu- sional Speaker after his fellow Council has been sworn in and lum specialist for the Nation’s Congress members elected is now under new leadership. Wahzhazhi Early Learning him to the position on July 14. After a cedar ceremony Academies. Both sisters look Walker (Pawhuska District) led by former Principal Chief forward to improving the ed- received majority votes in the John Red Eagle, Osage Na- ucation experience for Osage officer election held during a tion Trial Court Judge Mar- youth. Amanda McKinley single-day special session just vin Stepson administered the was recently hired as the hours after the newly elect- oath of office July 2 before a second-grade teacher for the ed Sixth ON Congress mem- standing room only crowd in Osage Language Immersion bers took their oaths of office the council’s chambers. School. during the inauguration cere- In the ensuing special ses- “We have such an opportu- mony that morning. sion, Marsha Harlan was BENNY POLACCA/Osage News nity to teach our Osage youth See WALKER See OMC The Fourth Osage Minerals Council take their oaths of office in their See KSU —Continued on Page 6 —Continued on Page 6 OMC chambers on July 2. —Continued on Page 7 INSIDE THE OSAGE NEWS FOLLOW THE OSAGE NEWS ONLINE FCC to Reconsider Motion to Forego Tribal Consultation . 3 Energy Column . .. 13 • Breaking news at osagenews.org Plaintiffs Still Waiting for DNA results in Lintner Case . 3 Community . 15 • facebook.com/osagenews Maria Tallchief to be Honored . .. 5 Obituaries and Classifieds . 16 • twitter.com/osagenews Photos from Hominy In-Lon-Schka . 10-12 Opinion . 17 • flickr.com/osagenews 2 August 2018 Osage News • osagenews.org Osage News • osagenews.org August 2018 3 Native Youth in Food and Agriculture Summit teaches youth about food sovereignty issues Benny Polacca tribal nation is cutting down The 2018 Native Youth in Osage News on food and horticultural costs Food and Agriculture Lead- in directly providing several ership Summit, comprised of QUAPAW, Okla. – With live- of those staples to its casino about 30 high school-age stu- stock grazing, bees producing resort amenities, as well as dents, paid a visit to the Qua- honey and plants, fruits and its tribal programs serving paw operations on June 12 to vegetables growing on the land Quapaw tribal members of all view the operations, including surrounding the Downstream ages. The Quapaw’s food sov- the tribe’s greenhouses, meat Casino Resort, the Quapaw ereignty endeavors serve as a processing plant and casino Tribe invested in greenhouse must-see field trip for young where the students enjoyed a and meat processing opera- Native American students catered lunch with several of tions to bring food preparation who are interested in working the fruits and vegetables and practices in-house. toward professions in those ar- meats coming from those op- By taking those initiatives, eas or serving their respective erations. Now in its fifth year, the northeastern Oklahoma tribal communities. the summit – held June 7-14 BENNY POLACCA/ Osage News at the University of Arkansas Students with the 2018 Native Youth in Food and Agriculture Leadership School of Law in Fayetteville Summit tour the Quapaw Tribe’s greenhouse operations during a field – is open to Native students trip for their education program on June 12. (including Alaskan and Ha- ally appropriate food produced Four areas of study covered waiian Native students) ages through ecologically sound include agriculture business 15-18 who are interested in and sustainable methods, and and finance, planning for ag- learning more about food and their right to define their own ricultural production, food law agriculture practices and oth- and policy and nutrition and er related fields including food and agriculture systems.” health, she said. food law and policy, conserva- “We hope to be inspiring the Keir Johnson-Reyes (Osage) tion practices and nutrition next generation of agriculture participated in this year’s sum- and health. producers,” said Erin Parker, mit remotely from Northern Two summit instructors research director and staff at- California where he lives with with Osage Nation ties partic- torney for the Indigenous Food his wife Glenda who recently ipated this year in discussing and Agriculture Initiative, gave birth to their first child. food sovereignty topics with which hosts the youth summit. the students. According to the “We want (the students) to un- Johnson-Reyes, who grows BENNY POLACCA/ Osage News U.S. Food Sovereignty Alli- derstand the variety of food Osage corn, works for the In- tertribal Agriculture Council Five greenhouses are used by the Quapaw Tribe in growing plants and ance website, food sovereignty agriculture practices, (food) and helped plan the first-ever vegetable produce near its Downstream Casino Resort in northeast Okla- is described as “ the right of law … this year, we let them homa.