And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Didn't know if you saw this....this is indeed a great loss for us all... Rabid -----Original Message----- From: Liz Pollard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Bob Topor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, March 09, 1999 11:02 AM Subject: Dr. Parker McKenzie, Kiowa Elder, Passes >PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PRESS RELEASE > >KIOWA ELDER & SCHOLAR DR. PARKER MCKENZIE, 101, PASSES > >RAINY MOUNTAIN, OK - Kiowa historian, linguist, elder, and original >board member of the American Indian Exposition, Dr. Parker Paul McKenzie, >101, passed on to the land of the spirits Friday, March 5, 1999. He was >the oldest member of the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma and a bundle keeper for >the Kiowa people. > >McKenzie was a self-taught linguist, but his knowledge and talents are often >said to equal those of Cherokee leader Sequoyah. Both leaders developed >alphabets to give their tribes written languages. He was born Nov. 15, 1897 >in a Kiowa camp south of what is now Mountain View in Kiowa County, OK. >He was enrolled under his Kiowa name, San-Tau-Koy. > >McKenize attended school at Rainy Mountain boarding school and Phoenix >Indian boarding school and later went on to Lamson Business College and >Oklahoma A & M. In March, 1920, McKenzie began employment in the Indian >Monies Section of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Anadarko Agency. After 39 >years of meritorious service, he retired in June of 1959. > >McKenzie first served as a Kiowa linguist with American linguistics >consultant John Peabody Harrington when he did preliminary field work at the >Anadarko Agency. His work earned him an honorary doctorate in Humane >Letters from the University of Colorado. He went on to become the principal >scholar in recording the history of his tribal language. His painstaking >attention >to detail and nuances of meaning have enriched the general understanding of >the Kiowa language, culture, and history. > >McKenzie is survived by his daughters, Esther Hayes of Mountain View and >Kathryn Collier of Wewoka, his 12 grandchildren, 35 great grandchildren, and >one great great grandchild. A prayer service will be held at 7 p.m. Wednesday, >March 10 at Smith Funeral Chapel in Anadarko, and services will be at 1 p.m. >Thursday at the Rainy Mountain Baptist Church. McKenzie will be interred at >Anadarko's Memory Lane Cemetery. > >FOR MORE INFO: >Liz Pollard * Smoke Signals Enterprises >505 W. Louisiana Ave., Anadarko, OK >(405)247-2251 FAX:(405)247-2092 >Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- >Elizabeth "Liz" Pollard * Smoke Signals Enterprises >Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * On the Web: http://www.smokesig.com > >Co-author: "Liz & Bob's Web Builder's Guide." >Download this resource manual from the Web! (http://www.smokesig.com) > >Web sites designed and developed include: >American Indian Exposition: http://www.indianexpo.org >Moccasin Telegraph: http://www.indianexpo.org/moccasin.html >Housing Authority of the Apache Tribe: http://www.apachehousing.org >Wichita & Affiliated Tribes http://www.wichita.nsn.us >=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Tsonkwadiyonrat (We are ONE Spirit) Unenh onhwa' Awayaton http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
