"OUKAH" or "HOGWASH"?:
On the Cherokee web board sponsored by the independent Cherokee monthly newspaper, the Cherokee Observer, Archie Jordan posted the following question to the Managing Editor, David Cornsilk, on January 11, 1999:
"David C. Please, if you may a thought or two on this Oukah and his claim to fame and the legitimacy of the particular organization earlier mentioned in a post titled Information".
Later in the day David Cornsilk responded: "Archie, the fella calling himself the OUKAH is a gentleman, a scholar, a Cherokee, irascible, quick to anger, generous, funny, even regal in his countenance, and a descendant of many noted Cherokee families. Anything beyond that, I leave to your own discretion to discern. He neither wants nor needs input from me to defend or detract from his claims".
When I printed this out and showed it to the Oukah, he just grinned and said: "I didn't know I was irascible!"