Is this some type of club for modestly successful white people with brown hair?
Is this some type of club for modestly successful white people with brown hair?
My first cousin is Chickasaw. Graduated with honors at OU in some science field and is completing graduate studies at Columbia in NYC in some type of chemistry. He's ridiculously smart.
Chickasaws paid for every bit of his schooling. Curly brown hair too. Looks like Bradford's.
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The Chickasaws don't have a song that I know of. They don't have a Cherokee People or even a Choctaw Bingo. They need a song, damn it.
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Anybody else find those "I'm an **** and I'm addicted to cheap commercial cigarettes" radio ads a little weird?
I'm Chickasaw and consider myself a pretty swell guy...Straight brown hair though.
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A former governor of the Chickasaw Nation lived a couple of houses down from us, when I was growing up in OKC. Overton James was governor for 25 years from 1963 to 1987.
He and his wife were my parents' very good friends - going out and partying at the bars in their younger days, also drinking & watching OU games on TV.
He was appointed by President Kennedy but later on became an elected governor. Apparently, in the early 20th century, presidents would appoint middle aged white guys to serve as Tribal governors, thinking tribal members were not capable of serving as governors. Overton James, however, was 100% Chickasaw to the bone. He had a white wife and they had the most beautiful daughter ever.
Somebody mention fight?
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Call me an idiot, But I've never figured out what the tv ads are selling? Isn't that the purpose of an ad?
Are they selling Chickasaws? Or some subliminal fire water sales?
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They are basically PSAs for the Chickasaw tribe. No different than having Boren tell you how many national merit scholars OU has.
I actually find them interesting and actually have a guy I went to high school with who was profiled in one of them.
Apparently Chickasaw related industries have gone from next to nothing to multimillion dollar enterprises in the last 30 or so years and are not just related to casinos.
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I'm racist against white people.
I know what you're all saying, "But you're white, right?"
Yes. That's what makes my racial conflict all the more troubling. I've ended two relationships because they fell in love with a white man.
Real estate,gas and oil,performing arts and artists,cattle,produce,just about everything that can bring a buck.
5/8 Chickasaw,1/8 African-American,1/4 French-Creole.
26 years in Uncle Sams Canoe Club,retired full Commander, previous owner of an international security service. Now...full time grandfather/crappie fisherman/noodler and Sooner fan extraordinaire.
I have a few friends in the gas and oil industry who have ties to the tribe,they say the tribe is growing by leaps and bounds "financially",but education is their main goal in regards to the future.
I think it's great as it really enhances the tribes image and provides jobs and industry for not only the tribe but also to our state's residents.
The one thing I am curious about is how closely tied the younger people are to their heritage. Certainly the funds that they get for education and such would make me thankful but now that the tribe has been pretty much ****imilated for 80 or so years I wonder how deep those traditional cultural roots are?
I contrast that to tribes that seem to be moribund from a financial and enterprise perspective (except casinos) but still base a lot of their activities around old tribal cultures.