CHAIRPERSON MESSAGE: September 2025
ᎣᏏᏲ ᏂᎦᏛ osiyo nigad! (hello, everyone!)
ᎤᎳᎪᎲᏍᏗ ulagohvsdi (autumn) has arrived!
We had a wonderful campout last month, visiting with everyone, making baskets, playing chunkey and marbles, and eating tasty food! It was a very special weekend spent in community together and we’re grateful to everyone who came out. See Campout pictures here!
Next month, we hope to see you at our regular October membership meeting. We plan to visit with each other, eat delicious potluck food, hold our annual election, make cornhusk dolls, and hear our traditional Cherokee story of why the cornhusk doll has no face. We will have traditional games ready to play as well!
Also this month:
We have started a Book Club! Come visit with us virtually on Sunday, October 5th. The theme for the year will be “enhancing our cultural understanding through storytelling”. The books we have picked to start us out are:
Cherokee Stories of the Turtle Island Liars' Club, by Christopher B. Teuton, with Hastings Shade, Sammy Still, Sequoyah Guess and Woody Hanson.
Trickster Tales of Southeastern Native Americans, by Terry L. Norton.
Cherokee Earth Dwellers, by Christopher B. Teuton and Hastings Shade.
We share a recipe for traditional Bean Bread.
We celebrate two important Cherokee gentlemen:
Cherokee Nation Honored Elder and Warrior, Odell Landers, celebrated a milestone birthday recently. ᎤᎵᎮᎵᏍᏗ ᎤᏕᏘᏱᏍᎬ ulihelisdi udetiyisgv (Happy birthday), Odell!
Rob Wood was an important and well-respected founding member of the CNCV. CNCV members along with his wife and daughter, Laurie and Hannah Wood, celebrated his life on Saturday, July 26th.
October is election time for the CNCV. We share candidate statements for the upcoming CNCV election on October 25.
Do you have a question about the language? Joe Fourkiller with Cherokee Nation Gadugi Corps is available to help our community with words, phrases, and spelling! Reach out to Joe with language questions. And feel free to share what you learn with the rest of us! Contact: Joe Fourkiller at Josephc-fourkiller@cherokee.org; 918-871-9248-cell; 918-453-5000 Ext
As a reminder, the CNCV has a resource webpage for you with many informative links for citizenship, language, culture, history, health, education, veterans, and more. Let us know if you'd like to see something specifically there.
We’re looking forward to visiting together at these events throughout the year and enjoying community, culture, history, and language with you!
ᏙᏓᏓᎪᎲᎢ dodadagohvi (‘til we meet again),
-- Sabrina McKinney
