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Northern Pontotoc Chickasaw Community Council to meet at tribal training center
Effective November 9, the Northern Pontotoc Chickasaw Community Council Meetings will move to a new facility for monthly meetings. The council currently meets the second Thursday of every month at 7:30 p.m. The new location will be the Chickasaw Training Center located at Tri-City in the old Wal-Mart building.

OKC Council sets upcoming meetings
The next meeting for the OKC Metro Chickasaw Community Council is Tuesday, November 7 at 7 p.m. Sandi Sanders and other representatives will be speaking about health services available to Chickasaws outside the Nation.

Young Chickasaw attorneys sworn into Chickasaw Bar Association
On September 28, four of Oklahoma’s newest attorneys were sworn into the Chickasaw Nation Bar Association.Jefferson Troy Keel, Jennifer Denoya Barnes, Kaycie Michelle Sheppard, and Charlotte Linn Claborn, all East Central University alumni and successful July 2006 Oklahoma Bar Examination examinees, were previously sworn into the Oklahoma Bar on September 26, 2006.

Chickasaw Council of Wichita set to meet November 19
Wichita, Kan. - The Chickasaw Community Council of Wichita, Kan., has begun an exciting journey. We have had three meetings so far and the response is great. The Chickasaw Nation has been so helpful with providing much needed support of wonderful speakers and representatives from various departments and Legislative Representatives.

OU sophomore named Leadership Scholar
Benjamin Bigbie was recently named a University of Oklahoma College of Arts and Sciences Leadership Scholar for the 2006-2007 academic years.

Chickasaw Honor Club offers incentives to students for scholarship, attendance
Beginning with the 2006/2007 school year, the Governor’s Honor Club will become the Chickasaw Honor Club. The programs will continue to offer incentives in the form of Wal-Mart gift cards, field trips, and t-shirts to qualifying Native American students attending a participating JOM school or qualifying Chickasaw Citizens who participate through the instate/ out-of-state program.

Music is free, but a great teacher is priceless
Colbert Hackler is quick to say he isn’t much of a violin player. But when this man of almost 90 picks up the violin, he takes on the appearance of a man half his age.

Chickasaw composer prominent in ‘Classical Native’ production
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Jerod Tate, a Chickasaw composer of classical music, played a prominent role in a first-of-its-kind event Oct. 5 through 8 at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C.Tate participated in virtually every aspect of “Classical Native,” a series of recitals, chamber concerts, and discussions featuring American Indian classical composers and musicians.