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All regular meetings are held at the OCTA building.

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Pot Luck Dinner

Indian Taco Sale: Second Saturday of Each Month          

Business meeting: Second Monday of Each Month          

Board meeting: Last Tuesday of Each Month                  

Veep Watkins and Prez Mouse have a big time conducting
 the door prize raffle during the business meeting.

Billy Porter was the speaker at the April 14, 2008 meeting. He is an environmental engineer with the Indian Health Service. They are commissioned officers and he holds the rank of Lt. Commander. He is Seminole/Cherokee from the Tusekia Harjo band, and is a member of the Deer Clan. He spoke on the Health Service programs to install water and sewer facilities on the lands of qualified Indian property owners. You should be aware of this important program. It is independent of and in addition to any tribal programs. We have included a copy of his brochure, which you can read and copy by clicking HERE.

At right Billy is shown passing out information  on the program to Carol Pate.

Oklahoma County Sheriff John Whetsel spoke at the March 10, 2008 meeting. He described the operation of his office, especially the county wide patrols. He described programs that might be of interest to us and offered to send people to familiarize us with programs such as Triad, which is designed to protect senior citizens.

Sheriff Whetsel was accompanied by his wife, Mitzi. At right they are shown chatting with Faye and Leonard Reining.

Steve Daugherty of the Oklahoma City Indian Clinic Wellness Center was the speaker at our February 14, 2008 meeting. Steve is the Health Promotion/Disease Prevention (HPDP)Coordinator for the Clinic. He described the various health and wellness programs sponsored by the Clinic and encouraged everyone to participate in them. Among the many programs available are diabetes prevention and treatment, children's programs, and exercise programs. If you have questions call him at (405) 605-8203 or visit the Wellness Center at 210 Quadrum Drive here in the City. That is on the south side of Reno, one long block east of Portland.

Dena Hunt, Program Coordinator for the OKC Police Department's School Crossing and Selective Parking Unit, spoke to us on November 12, 2007. Perrin Deal, our Secretary, works with her. Ms. Hunt spoke on the ins and outs of Handicapped Parking spaces, permits, license plates, and how to get them. She also discussed the folks who are going to give you an expensive ticket if you ignore them. That may sound like the driest of dry topics, but she really made it fun, interesting, and enjoyable. You can find Handicapped Parking Permit applications HERE on the State's web site.

At right, President George Mouse presents  Ms. Hunt with an OCTA cap.

 
Stella Long and Greg Rodgers entertained us with stories at our September 10, 2007 meeting. Their web sites can be reached from our Links page. Greg is a recent OU graduate and has interned with storyteller Tim Tingle.

     Dana Morrow of the  Metropolitan Library System spoke at our August 13, 2007 meeting. She described the Library's Oklahoma Voices project, which is an effort to preserve the voices and stories of Oklahoma's first 100 years as a state. She strongly urged everyone to participate. It is an interesting project - you can record interviews at the library with any person of interest to you, whether family or friend.
    We made copies of the description of the project from the Library's Info magazine and their scheduled sessions. Click HERE to see them.

  State Representative Lisa Billy (House District 42) was the speaker at our July 9, 2007 meeting. She presented a very lively and interesting talk about how she first became involved in the race for state office and her experiences and accomplishments in while she has been in office. She described how she initiated the House Native American Caucus, and how they have promoted matters of interest to Native Americans in the Legislature.

She showed us a map of the State they prepared which shows both the legislative districts and the tribal areas. Now, both legislators and Indians can look on that map and easily see areas of mutual interest. We are going to try to include the map in our web site so everyone can see it.

She is a Chickasaw and she was accompanied by her Choctaw husband, Phillip, and their children. It is worthy of note that they are fluent in Choctaw/Chickasaw and are passing this knowledge on to their children. Someone forgot to bring his camera to the meeting, so we filched her picture from her House web page. This is the non-political web site of an absolutely non-political organization, but we think it is safe to say that it seems as though both Indians and na hullo are being well served by Representative Billy.