Velma's Work
Valiantly Velma

Valiantly Velma is a story in and around the time from 1966 through the early 70's. It is a history of my Mother, Velma, and her work with the Oklahoma for Indians Opportunity organization when it was struggling with the War on Poverty within our Ponca Tribe.

Valiantly Velma

• Wimpy’s Cafe
  I’ll pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today

• You Will Work With the Grassroots
  And work, and work, and work

• This is the Way You Do Things
  Keep the ways

• Sell the Café
  Good-bye Wimpy

• A Style Show
  Take Indianess to the Community

• A Party Everyday
  Everyone loves to party

• V.I.S.T.A.
  Volunteers in service to America

• Poor Old Dog
  Quick action, accurate aim

• Mah-Thee
  Beautiful in form and spirit

• Mah-Thee’s Husband
  And the cursed area

• Ribbons of the Osage
  Dedication and Design

• Dehlia Franklin Castor
  Gentle Leader

• Love and Money Make the Difference
  Frontier School at Red Rock, Oklahoma

• Water in the Rural
  For all races

• You All Know Mah-Thee
  There was a rustling in the room

• Indian Homes
  An inanimate particular race?

• Special Needs of Indian Children
  I know who you are

• The Hallucinating Man
  He’s seeing things, shaking all over

• Just Another Way to Get Our Land
  Back Payments and the Chief of the Ponca

• Lamont Brown and Melvin Hardman
  These men were the savers of happy things

• Sand Burrs
  He was paralyzed with the pain

• Peace to You
  I was there in his territory

• Good-Bye Jeff
  Of our heart

• Vacation in Colorado Springs
  In a rainy, cold campground

• Colorado Springs
  Patty learns about pow-wows

• Malaguena at the Pow-Wow
  A wonderful reunion with cousin Ura May

• Autumn of Life is for the Old Ways
  Velma’s retirement from O.I.O.

• Velma’s World, 2007
  The world is a different one

• How is Stoicism Taught
  With a method, those who can, should

• Synopsis

• Dedication

• Acknowledgements

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