Osage Nation Celebrates Recovery

with Walk for Sobriety event

Contact Louis Gray

918-287-5415

    The Osage Nation Counseling Center will recognize Recovery Month in September with a Walk for Sobriety on Saturday, September 29^th starting at 11 a.m. at the Osage Cultural Center and ending at Wakon Iron Hall.

   The City of Pawhuska and the Osage Nation Police Department will escort the walkers as they walk a route from the Osage Cultural Center and ending up at Wakon Iron Hall in Indian Camp. Free t-shirts will be given to walkers and there will be refreshment stands set up a long the route.

   Osage Principal Chief James R. Gray will welcome attendees and walkers at Wakon Iron Hall where a meal will be served and behavioral health booths available to learn about tribal services. Assistant Chief John D. Red Eagle will give the invocation.

  Osage Nation Counseling Center Director Virginia Elsey will introduce honored guests and update those in attendance of the tribe’s battle against addiction. She will be followed by Osage Social Services Director Lee Collins who also serves as the tribe’s innovative Meth Task Force Chairman. She will deliver an update on the work of the Task Force in addressing meth abuse.

   The keynote address will be delivered by Osage Congressman Debbie Littleton. She is the original author of tribal meth task force law. The tribe has been recognized nationally for their work in addressing meth addiction.

   After Littleton’s address there will be a meal followed by time for testimonials on recovery.

   Finally there will be a group pledge to stay sober followed by the serenity prayer.