Miss Cherokee coming home for birthday party

Miss Cherokee Brooke Hudson

 

Brooke Hudson got an early start on her Miss Cherokee platform to raise awareness and share the benefits of living a healthy lifestyle. Her own active lifestyle and sports involvement led her to choose this platform.

She will come to the Will Rogers Birthplace Ranch birthday party to help celebrate Will’s 131st birthday.

In June, a few months before the Miss Cherokee competition, Brooke took part in the Cherokee Nation’s 2010 “Remember the Removal” bike ride, a 950-mile trek that commemorated the tribe’s journey from its eastern homelands in the 1830s.

She received the title during the Miss Cherokee Leadership Competition. She was officially crowned during the tribe’s State of the Nation ceremony as part of the 58th Cherokee National Holiday.

The daughter of Michelle Scarborough of Claremore and Aaron Hudson of Eucha, she grew up in Jay and Claremore. She is a Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College, Miami, sophomore and is majoring in Native American Studies. She plays softball for the Lady Norse.

Brooke received a  $3,000 scholarship in the Cherokee competition.

She can demonstrate her athletic talents in the Native American game of stickball and her cultural artistic talents in basket weaving and Native American beadwork. Her cultural presentation in the Miss Cherokee competition was making pucker-toe moccasins.

Her role as Miss Cherokee is to carry the goodwill message of the Cherokees and her platform to different communities and across the United States.

Miss Cherokee contestants were judged on interviewing skills, platform and cultural presentation, social skills, tribal knowledge and usage of the Cherokee language.

This is the second consecutive year for Miss Cherokee to come from Claremore. The 2009-2010 reigning Miss Cherokee was Danielle Culp.