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Shayla Scott Miller is an enrolled member of the Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma. She is also a descendant of the Otoe-Missouria and Sac & Fox Tribes. She was born on January 13, 1994 in Cushing, Oklahoma to Jeffrey (Scott) Miller, an enrolled member of the Iowa Tribe and Tammy Palmer of the Sac & Fox Tribe.

Shayla’s family lineage includes her Grandmother Joyce Big Soldier-Miller, with whom she resides with in Perkins, Oklahoma. Shayla comes from a long line of Chief blood line and veterans. Her maternal Grandmother was the late Doris Roubidoux, a full-blood Sac & Fox.

Shayla is now of 17 years of age and carries the Ioway Indian name Che-Doh-Hah-Mi, meaning Buffalo Standing Woman. She was given this name at the age of three in a traditional naming ceremony by her Grandmother Julia Smith and Joyce Big Soldier-Miller, assisted by her uncle Randy Miller Jr., Frank McClellan Jr., and Eugene Big Soldier.

Shayla was brought up into the dance arena at an early age and was dressed in Ioway traditional clothing, which includes a skirt made up of floral designs, a blouse, and low-cut moccasins. She was also dressed in an Ojibwe style jingle dress at a young age and is in training to be a Native American Hoop dancer.

In her background, Shayla has also had other royalty titles in the past, which include the former 2006-2007 Jr. Miss Iowa Tribal Princess, in 2009 she was selected to be the Senior Princess for the South West Oklahoma Vietnam Veterans Association. She enjoys

representing her tribes, relatives, and as well as the veterans. She has traveled not only in Oklahoma to represent her people, but also numerous surrounding states too.

In February 2010 she attended a documentary premier in Los Angeles, California about her tribe and was gathered with several of her family members to meet another tribe. She flew back to California to be in the 2011 Rose Bowl Parade on New Year’s Day in Pasadena and walked 5.5 miles along a Native American Fancy Dancer float on national television along with other Native Americans throughout the United States and with a Sioux musical/dance group called the Brule. The float was 35 feet in height and 75 feet in length, and was called “One Nation.”

Shayla attends Perkins-Tryon Public High School where she will be a Senior in the Fall and will only need two core curriculum classes to graduate and will be able to go to Meridian Technology Center where she will be trained to be a Graphic Design specialist working with computers. Shayla plans to continue her education at Northern Oklahoma College and transfer to Oklahoma State University where

she wants to have more than one college degree. Her favorite school subject is Art IV, where she has won many art contests in and out of school along with awards and various business people asking her to make artwork for wall paintings, t-shirts, and calendars.

While not in school, she enjoys going to cultural presentations with her Grandmother Joyce, where they are very much involved in the community and surrounding towns. She likes to attend Oklahoma State University when they have undergraduate leadership programs. She attends the Ioway community church held at their tribal complex where it is serviced by her Grandpa Reverend Thomas Morris. Shayla also enjoys going horseback riding for fun or in parades, playing stickball, going to winter gourd dances or powwows, attending sweat lodge ceremonies, and recently going to Native American Church meetings.

As the Sac & Fox Veterans Honor Guard Princess, she pledges to represent with the best ability to show pride in our Native American culture. Shayla’s family, friends, and tribes will also support her in her endeavors as they have always done so for her.

Shayla Scott Miller New Veterans Honor Guard Princess

Shayla Scott Miller

NOTICECAMP CLEAN-UP

In preparation for Pow-Wow there will be a camp clean-up day June 18th

• Place big items next to road for pickup• Small items should be placed in the dumpsters

Any questions call: 918-968-4271NOTICE OFFICES WILL BE CLOSED

MONDAY, JULY 4 FOR INDENPENDENCE DAYMONDAY, JULY 11 FOR NATIVE AMERICAN DAY

Sac & Fox Nation

PowWowJuly 7-10. 2011

48th Annual

HEAD STAFF

Head Singer Don Patterson,Tonkawa

-Head man dancer Joshua Cody Williamson, SacnFox.

-Head woman dancer Angela Butler,sacnfox& caddo

Head gourd dancerGregory Morris, sacnfox laguna navajo

MC Frank Carson, pawnee osage otoe iowa.

MCConrad Brown, meskwaki.

AD Grant Franklin, sacnfox comanche absentee- shawnee kickapoo wichi-

ta.

AD Randy Moore, sacnfox.

AD Robert Williamson, sacnfox.

Traditional night-thursday.

Grand entry 7oclock.

For information contact :Georgia Noble(918) 968-3370. Mike Harris (918) 968-4158.

Robert Williamson (918) 285-1563.

Not responsible for theft or accidents. Free camping and rations to all registered campers.

Sac & Fox Nation

PowWowJuly 7-10. 2011

48th Annual

HEAD STAFF

Head Singer Don Patterson,Tonkawa

-Head man dancer Joshua Cody Williamson, SacnFox.

-Head woman dancer Angela Butler,sacnfox& caddo

Head gourd dancerGregory Morris, sacnfox laguna navajo

MC Frank Carson, pawnee osage otoe iowa.

MCConrad Brown, meskwaki.

AD Grant Franklin, sacnfox comanche absentee- shawnee kickapoo wichi-

ta.

AD Randy Moore, sacnfox.

AD Robert Williamson, sacnfox.

Traditional night-thursday.

Grand entry 7oclock.

For information contact :Georgia Noble(918) 968-3370. Mike Harris (918) 968-4158.

Robert Williamson (918) 285-1563.

Not responsible for theft or accidents. Free camping and rations to all registered campers.

New Library HoursThe Sac and Fox

National Public Library is open Monday - Friday

8 a.m. - 6 p.m. Saturdays

9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Please call 918-968-3626,

extension 1062 Catherine Walker, Marlena Starr and Kathy Platt welcome your patronage