Canku Ota - August 2015 - Berbon K. Hamilton Is The Pawhuska District's New Drumkeeper

	Canku Ota
	(Many Paths)
	An Online Newsletter Celebrating Native America
	August 2015 - Volume 13 Number 8


	Berbon K. Hamilton Is The Pawhuska District's New Drumkeeper
	by Osage News

The new Pawhuska District Drumkeeper, Berbon K. Hamilton.

Berbon K. Hamilton has been selected as the next Pawhuska Drumkeeper.

Hamilton, 16, is a junior at Sequoyah High School in Tahlequah, Cherokee Nation. He is the son of Berbon R. Hamilton and Angela Hammer.

He and his family will be responsible for hosting the Pawhuska In-Lon-Schka and taking care of the district's members, along with many more cultural responsibilities.

Hamilton was given the drum on Sunday of this year's Pawhuska In-Lon-Schka from George Stabler, Jr., and his family, as is custom. Stabler, Jr., was Drumkeeper for five years.

Hamilton and his family will "pay for the drum" at next year's Pawhuska In-Lon-Schka dances.

He has one brother Noah and one sister Kiana and is the grandson of Otto and the late Sandra Murphy Hamilton. The great-grandson of Otto, Sr., and Josephine Pryor Hamilton and Berbon and Gertrude Elam Murphy. Great-great-grandson of Bill Pryor, Amos Hamilton and Dora Strikeaxe, along with Foster Strikeaxe and Chief Strikeaxe.

He is also the great-nephew of the late Harriet Hamilton Shadlow.

Past Pawhuska Drumkeepers include:

1883-1924: Ben Mashunkashey	1954-1955: Louis Stabler	1985-1988: Vann Bighorse

1925-1927: Charles Lookout	1956-1958: Ervin DeRoin	1989-1991: George Stabler

1928-1929: Clarence Gray	1959-1962: Willie Hamilton	1992-1997: Matthew Littleton

1930-1932: Louis Brave	1963-1966: Eddy Red Eagle Jr.	1998-2002: Eli Red Eagle

1933-1934: Ed Lookout	1967-1969: R.E. Yarbrough	2003-2006: Cameron Rumsey

1935-1940: Don Big Elk	1970-1972: Louis Cunningham	2007-2010: Bruce Cass

1941-1945: Leo Miles	1973-1976: John Henry Mashunkashey	2011-2015: George Stabler, Jr.

1946-1950: Morris Lookout	1977-1979: Jess Burris	2015: Berbon K. Hamilton

1951-1953: Andrew "Buddy" Gray	1980-1984: Sammy Lookout







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