OSIYO MY TRIBAL FAMILY!
Progress report. As for our enrollment progress, we are through the letters A, B, C, D, E, and XYZ. This has been a mean learning curve to navigate.
We operate in Excel and then transfer data for storage and organization into " File Saver Pro". This program is complicated and expensive. Tech support alone is $95 per hour, and is provided by our representative LeRoy Grubbs with Secure Systems Services, Inc. He's a strange little geek I have yet to meet but who is an all-star in file saver. They say he also has a fine head of hair. We shall see. LeRoy has already gone the extra mile for us and believes in our cause. With an arrow like this in our quiver, we can't lose.
This is the toughest job of my life and am a retired iron worker. Every time I am at my wit's end, somebody steps forward. Some thing changes in our favor. We will continue to overcome every obstacle. Every unrecognized group out there is watching us and hoping. They should probably be sending money because when this is over we will hit the road helping them, and probably for free. But for the next five or six months, it is ink and paper, and more ink and paper. Gas and food, gas and food.
We achieve so much from the generosity of so few. Well, I have a request from the thousands of you we never hear from until they need something. We have always been here and glad to help but now it is your turn. Just think of the return on your money if you invest just one "Big Mac" meal a month in your nation. Go large and super size, make it $20. If you can't afford that, your probably done for anyway. Look ahead when your next request is scholarship or healthcare. These are the first things we will be able to provide. This is why we keep telling you, it's now or never! This opportunity will never come again. Get excited and get involved. Fly a thousand miles if you have to, just to see what's going on and feel the excitement. Come to the next council meeting scheduled for April 9. This is for you. Your grandchildren will praise your memory. Your elders will smile when they meet you.
NOW DIG IN and help your people. Call me!
We have PayPal here on our web page. Go to the "Contact" tab and donate!
We have set up a GoFundMe account available on our facebook page.
We also accept checks and money orders, make payable to NCN and put on the memo line for "federal recognition".
Chief Kenn Grey Elk
Progress report. As for our enrollment progress, we are through the letters A, B, C, D, E, and XYZ. This has been a mean learning curve to navigate.
We operate in Excel and then transfer data for storage and organization into " File Saver Pro". This program is complicated and expensive. Tech support alone is $95 per hour, and is provided by our representative LeRoy Grubbs with Secure Systems Services, Inc. He's a strange little geek I have yet to meet but who is an all-star in file saver. They say he also has a fine head of hair. We shall see. LeRoy has already gone the extra mile for us and believes in our cause. With an arrow like this in our quiver, we can't lose.
This is the toughest job of my life and am a retired iron worker. Every time I am at my wit's end, somebody steps forward. Some thing changes in our favor. We will continue to overcome every obstacle. Every unrecognized group out there is watching us and hoping. They should probably be sending money because when this is over we will hit the road helping them, and probably for free. But for the next five or six months, it is ink and paper, and more ink and paper. Gas and food, gas and food.
We achieve so much from the generosity of so few. Well, I have a request from the thousands of you we never hear from until they need something. We have always been here and glad to help but now it is your turn. Just think of the return on your money if you invest just one "Big Mac" meal a month in your nation. Go large and super size, make it $20. If you can't afford that, your probably done for anyway. Look ahead when your next request is scholarship or healthcare. These are the first things we will be able to provide. This is why we keep telling you, it's now or never! This opportunity will never come again. Get excited and get involved. Fly a thousand miles if you have to, just to see what's going on and feel the excitement. Come to the next council meeting scheduled for April 9. This is for you. Your grandchildren will praise your memory. Your elders will smile when they meet you.
NOW DIG IN and help your people. Call me!
We have PayPal here on our web page. Go to the "Contact" tab and donate!
We have set up a GoFundMe account available on our facebook page.
We also accept checks and money orders, make payable to NCN and put on the memo line for "federal recognition".
Chief Kenn Grey Elk
Osiyo Northern Cherokee Nation Citizens.
Many interesting and constructive things have transpired this past year. The new rules for Federal Recognition were signed into law this past year, and the Northern Cherokee Nation was very active in this process. We have progressed from the rules implemented in 1974 which, as we all knew, were designed to prevent any tribe or nation from achieving recognition. They were very successful in doing just that, to a new set of rules that are reasonable, fair and are good plain common sense. Even with the new rules, the integrity of the "Part 83 Recognition" process has been maintained. Even with the new rules being far more reasonable and fair, this is still a long and difficult process.
Here is how it goes -- if we get a change in the administration this election cycle, the first thing on tap is to chop the budget with the Interior Department at the top of the list. Cuts at the EPA and others won't affect us much but the cuts at the Bureau of Indian Affairs will. We therefore have a time line. If we fail to meet this deadline, we will have spent a lot of time and money for nothing. THIS OPPORTUNITY WILL NEVER COME AGAIN!
We must submit our preliminary application in six months or less. We have over 14,000 files to submit with a complicated format that averages 32 minutes per form. Do the math. Figure four people, eight hours a day at five days a week and see how many get done.
Remember these people are non-paid volunteers and drive at least one hour or more each way to come to headquarters to work for you. We are buying mountains of paper, ink and office supplies to keep your office up and running. These are just a few of the expenses to achieve our goal of recognition. THIS IS WHAT MUST HAPPEN.
For the last 20 years or so, a core group of about 150 citizens have been active in or supporting the Nation. These are people that live within a 200 mile radius. A few have also supported us from afar. We thank our faithful supporters!
This has be adequate for now. NOW IS OVER. Now is now or never! Now is the time for every citizen to ask themselves and their families, how much is it worth to us to achieve federal recognition? This is the only time in our history you will ever have to ask yourselves this question. If you come to your council meetings, you will feel the excitement. Know this and understand this, from now until we are successful or not, depends on YOU THE PEOPLE. Be the ones who explain to your grandchildren how you helped to make this happen.
Make the ancestors proud.
Wado,
Chief Kenn Grey Elk
Many interesting and constructive things have transpired this past year. The new rules for Federal Recognition were signed into law this past year, and the Northern Cherokee Nation was very active in this process. We have progressed from the rules implemented in 1974 which, as we all knew, were designed to prevent any tribe or nation from achieving recognition. They were very successful in doing just that, to a new set of rules that are reasonable, fair and are good plain common sense. Even with the new rules, the integrity of the "Part 83 Recognition" process has been maintained. Even with the new rules being far more reasonable and fair, this is still a long and difficult process.
Here is how it goes -- if we get a change in the administration this election cycle, the first thing on tap is to chop the budget with the Interior Department at the top of the list. Cuts at the EPA and others won't affect us much but the cuts at the Bureau of Indian Affairs will. We therefore have a time line. If we fail to meet this deadline, we will have spent a lot of time and money for nothing. THIS OPPORTUNITY WILL NEVER COME AGAIN!
We must submit our preliminary application in six months or less. We have over 14,000 files to submit with a complicated format that averages 32 minutes per form. Do the math. Figure four people, eight hours a day at five days a week and see how many get done.
Remember these people are non-paid volunteers and drive at least one hour or more each way to come to headquarters to work for you. We are buying mountains of paper, ink and office supplies to keep your office up and running. These are just a few of the expenses to achieve our goal of recognition. THIS IS WHAT MUST HAPPEN.
For the last 20 years or so, a core group of about 150 citizens have been active in or supporting the Nation. These are people that live within a 200 mile radius. A few have also supported us from afar. We thank our faithful supporters!
This has be adequate for now. NOW IS OVER. Now is now or never! Now is the time for every citizen to ask themselves and their families, how much is it worth to us to achieve federal recognition? This is the only time in our history you will ever have to ask yourselves this question. If you come to your council meetings, you will feel the excitement. Know this and understand this, from now until we are successful or not, depends on YOU THE PEOPLE. Be the ones who explain to your grandchildren how you helped to make this happen.
Make the ancestors proud.
Wado,
Chief Kenn Grey Elk
FOREVER CHEROKEE
Here is an update on the new rules for federal recognition. In 2013, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, for various reasons, decided to revise the rules for recognition.
In 2014, the Northern Cherokee Nation and many other tribal nations attended meetings to present comments and ideas to the BIA to further this process. These meetings were held in various locations around the country in order to give everyone a chance to attend and voice their comments without having to travel too far. They did miss one small area, the entire central United States, specifically the Midwest. This is an area where 10 times more native descendants live than all other tribes put together. Budget wise I can see why they ran from this one, but anyway, more than 350 responses and 2000 form letters were received by the BIA.
The comment period ended September 30th, 2014. They originally gave a period of 30 days to process these, and then would issue new guidelines. Because of the large response, they needed another 30 days. Now it is March. On March 24 they issued an official statement (Go to www.indianz.com or www.indiannewstoday.com to read complete article), saying that they expected to finalize the "Part 83 Reforms" for Federal Recognition "in the next couple of months."
Really??
About damn time!
I'm about to start up a new Bureau of Indian Affairs department made up of, are you ready for this, INDIANS.
Chief Grey Elk
PS. Both of the above web pages listed above are excellent sources to keep up with the happenings in the Indian world today. Please check them out!!!
Here is an update on the new rules for federal recognition. In 2013, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, for various reasons, decided to revise the rules for recognition.
In 2014, the Northern Cherokee Nation and many other tribal nations attended meetings to present comments and ideas to the BIA to further this process. These meetings were held in various locations around the country in order to give everyone a chance to attend and voice their comments without having to travel too far. They did miss one small area, the entire central United States, specifically the Midwest. This is an area where 10 times more native descendants live than all other tribes put together. Budget wise I can see why they ran from this one, but anyway, more than 350 responses and 2000 form letters were received by the BIA.
The comment period ended September 30th, 2014. They originally gave a period of 30 days to process these, and then would issue new guidelines. Because of the large response, they needed another 30 days. Now it is March. On March 24 they issued an official statement (Go to www.indianz.com or www.indiannewstoday.com to read complete article), saying that they expected to finalize the "Part 83 Reforms" for Federal Recognition "in the next couple of months."
Really??
About damn time!
I'm about to start up a new Bureau of Indian Affairs department made up of, are you ready for this, INDIANS.
Chief Grey Elk
PS. Both of the above web pages listed above are excellent sources to keep up with the happenings in the Indian world today. Please check them out!!!
The U.S. government passed a new and improved recognition process in an attempt to complete the federal recognition process. It has a very long and complicated name, so we will just call it Part 83. Along with this new law, the U.S. government has decided to rearrange the Department of the Interior into different groups. The only ones that concern NCN for now are the Federal Office of Acknowledgement (FOA) which is now responsible for working with unrecognized tribes, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) which only handles issues for already recognized tribes. Update: 2014: Part 83 is revised. Update: 2015: Part 83 is revised again due to overwhelming response from 365 other tribes that have become aware and involved with the federal recognition process. Many conferences were held across Turtle Island and the NCN government was involved in all of them, including two phone conferences.
As of September 2015, with the new recognition process, we have had to put a hold on all enrollments and concentrate on the new federal recognition paperwork. We have a limited timeline for this process and must use what limited resources we have to complete all paperwork before any deadlines.
Just to tell you a little bit about myself and my credentials to write this for you. My name is Starr Tawny Eagle Mayo and I have been a recognized citizen of NCN since 1993 and served on the tribal council 1994-1996, under Chief ‘Grey Owl’ Griggs. Most of my relations are also recognized citizens of NCN, The Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, or The United Band of Keetoowah, Cherokees and of the Greater Cherokee Nation since before 1817. I have been a Certified Genealogist since 1980, and a Cherokee Historian. I have been recognized as a Cherokee Elder by (CNO). And, I am a descendent of the First Families of the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma.
My two cousins, Bill Davis and George Sumter and I were the individuals that wrote, and compiled the book, History of the Northern Cherokee, ©1996. I have given many seminars about the “Trail of Tears” or (Trail Where We Cried) and try to represent my Nation as well and as honorably as I am able. In addition, along with being an ordained minister, I am honored to be current Deputy Chief of the Northern Cherokee Nation.
Many people over the years have asked about the Northern Cherokee Nation and there has been a lot of information shared both good and bad. This reduced version was written for you to give you a short outline or overview of where we started, the reason we left the Cherokee Country in the east, the places we settled and how we ended up where we are today. The facts in this shortened version came from many sources which I have listed below.
Reference:
*1. Davis, B.; Mayo, S.; Sumpter, G.; ED; History of the Northern Cherokee, Lyndon, Ks. ©1996
*2. Garrett, Sandi, A.K.A. (Also Known As), Cherokee Woman Publishing, Spavinaw, Ok 1993. Reprinted with permission.
*3. http://www.aacap.org/cs/root/policy statements/placement of American Indian children
*4. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1514727/Cherokee-wars-and-treaties#ref1074414
*5. http://www.corntassel.net/archive_draggingcanoe.htm
*6. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/states/events/1811-1812.php
*7. ©2005-2010 Tennessee History for Kids, http://www.tnhistoryforkids.org/words/dragging_canoe, reprinted with permission.
*8. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esteban_Rodr%C3%ADguez_Mir%C3%B3
*9. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_termination_policy
*10. MISSOURI STATE LIBRARY, PO.BOX 387, Jefferson City, Mo. 65102-0378, ref.; Thirteenth General Assembly 1845
Jordan, Jerry Wright, Cherokee by Blood, 9 volume series, Heritage books, 2007. Used in original version of NCN history, but not included in this copy.
Starr, Emmet, History of the Cherokee Indians, Oklahoma Yesteryear Publications, Tulsa, OK 1993. This book was also used to verify other information not included in this particular short version printing, but was used often to research our original version of the 200 Year History of the Northern Cherokee.
As of September 2015, with the new recognition process, we have had to put a hold on all enrollments and concentrate on the new federal recognition paperwork. We have a limited timeline for this process and must use what limited resources we have to complete all paperwork before any deadlines.
Just to tell you a little bit about myself and my credentials to write this for you. My name is Starr Tawny Eagle Mayo and I have been a recognized citizen of NCN since 1993 and served on the tribal council 1994-1996, under Chief ‘Grey Owl’ Griggs. Most of my relations are also recognized citizens of NCN, The Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, or The United Band of Keetoowah, Cherokees and of the Greater Cherokee Nation since before 1817. I have been a Certified Genealogist since 1980, and a Cherokee Historian. I have been recognized as a Cherokee Elder by (CNO). And, I am a descendent of the First Families of the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma.
My two cousins, Bill Davis and George Sumter and I were the individuals that wrote, and compiled the book, History of the Northern Cherokee, ©1996. I have given many seminars about the “Trail of Tears” or (Trail Where We Cried) and try to represent my Nation as well and as honorably as I am able. In addition, along with being an ordained minister, I am honored to be current Deputy Chief of the Northern Cherokee Nation.
Many people over the years have asked about the Northern Cherokee Nation and there has been a lot of information shared both good and bad. This reduced version was written for you to give you a short outline or overview of where we started, the reason we left the Cherokee Country in the east, the places we settled and how we ended up where we are today. The facts in this shortened version came from many sources which I have listed below.
Reference:
*1. Davis, B.; Mayo, S.; Sumpter, G.; ED; History of the Northern Cherokee, Lyndon, Ks. ©1996
*2. Garrett, Sandi, A.K.A. (Also Known As), Cherokee Woman Publishing, Spavinaw, Ok 1993. Reprinted with permission.
*3. http://www.aacap.org/cs/root/policy statements/placement of American Indian children
*4. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1514727/Cherokee-wars-and-treaties#ref1074414
*5. http://www.corntassel.net/archive_draggingcanoe.htm
*6. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/states/events/1811-1812.php
*7. ©2005-2010 Tennessee History for Kids, http://www.tnhistoryforkids.org/words/dragging_canoe, reprinted with permission.
*8. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esteban_Rodr%C3%ADguez_Mir%C3%B3
*9. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_termination_policy
*10. MISSOURI STATE LIBRARY, PO.BOX 387, Jefferson City, Mo. 65102-0378, ref.; Thirteenth General Assembly 1845
Jordan, Jerry Wright, Cherokee by Blood, 9 volume series, Heritage books, 2007. Used in original version of NCN history, but not included in this copy.
Starr, Emmet, History of the Cherokee Indians, Oklahoma Yesteryear Publications, Tulsa, OK 1993. This book was also used to verify other information not included in this particular short version printing, but was used often to research our original version of the 200 Year History of the Northern Cherokee.