("In The Hall of the Mountain King" plays in the background if the internet is not to congested)
OUKAH'S INTRODUCTION
The last few public speeches made by the Oukah were introduced by his brother, Prince Edward. Here is an upgraded version of it:
I am Prince Edward of Tsalagi. I have been a Professor of Mathematics all of my adult life. Today it is my pleasure to introduce to you my elder brother, the Oukah of the Cherokee people.
In 1962 the first newspaper article was published in the Dallas Morning News about a Cherokee prince who had lived in Dallas for several years. It was written by Frank Tolbert, dean of Southwestern historians, and printed simultaneously in about 16 newspapers. Prince Donald of Tsalagi became known to millions of people in the Southwest, and made many speeches and public appearances in the next five years. For three of those years he was nominated for the Linz Award, Dallas' highest civic honor, for his services to the people of the area.
During those years he received his first letters from the White House, another from England with no return address on it except the "Prince of Wales Plumes", and from other government and royal entities throughout the world.
After the assassination of President Kennedy, the City of Dallas was shunned by everyone. Conventions were cancelled, hotels and department stores were empty of tourists, and the economy was bad. The present Oukah wrote to Lady Bird Johnson and suggested that she make a trip to Dallas, perhaps to shop at Neiman Marcus, to take the heat off the city. She did, and it worked. Dallas should always be grateful to the Oukah for that one thing alone.
When he was notified that our father, our Oukah, was in the hospital with a terminal illness, Prince Donald dropped out of public life to get ready to take on the position that would fall on him. After our Oukah's death, he waited 7 weeks to change titles and designations. There was, by then, only himself and the Emperor of Japan with the title of Emperor, and thus he became one of the two highest-ranking people in the world. As such, the Oukah is also the highest-ranking minority person in the world, as the Emperor of Japan isnot a minority member in his own country.
For that, he gave up his personal name and much of his personal life, and became simply, "The Oukah".
Later in that year he made a trip to Tahlequah, OK, the capital city of the Cherokees, and handed out a message, over his own signature, which brought about a lawsuit against the United States government. Three years later the appeals court decided that they were correct in their thinking, and ordered national elections again for not only the Cherokee Nation, but the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole Nations as well. To this date, not one of them has even said, "Thank you for putting your neck in the noose, and your life on the line!" which he had literally done. With that accomplishment alone he probably became the greatest Cherokee of our century.
Some years later, the Oukah was invited by the British Embassy in Washington,DC., to attend Queen Elizabeth's Silver Jubilee anniversary in London. He could not go for the main events in June of that year, but he did get there for 10 days in November. The flight back across the Atlantic, on his 47th birthday, caused him to lose 7 hours, and was the longest day of his life.
In recent years the Oukah has compiled and published two books on Hawaiian Royal Genealogy, and is working on another. He compiled the greatest, most inclusive, "Cherokee Bibliography", telling where the research material about Cherokees is housed, and also published several small pamphlets. His "Triskelion Press" is a very small press, indeed, but has become an impressive one, and the Oukah's work has earned him the respect due a major scholar.
In addition, he helped form a non-profit, educational corporation called "Cherokees of North Texas", and also the "Society of American Royalty" to verify the royals inside the USofA.
For years people have urged the Oukah to write the story of his life, but he has put that aside for four different times, not wanting to remember the horrors of the past, but hopefully will complete it someday soon. And the research on other Cherokee books goes on, along with adding things to the new computer website, which is now copied in four other places.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: HIS ROYAL AND IMPERIAL MAJESTY, THE OUKAH; EMPEROR OF TSALAGI (THE KINGDOM OF PARADISE); KING OF THE UPPER CHEROKEES; KING OF THE MIDDLE CHEROKEES; KING OF THE LOWER CHEROKEES; KEEPER OF THE ANCIENT TRADITIONS, AND SUPREME GOD OF THE SUN: the OUKAH!