Miss Red Earth 2007 announced
A news release arrived by e-mail today announcing that Carrie “Kay Kay” Franklin, an enrolled member of the Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma, is Miss Red Earth 2007.
As such, she will spend the year promoting the Red Earth festival, held this year from June 1-3 at the Cox Convention Center in downtown Oklahoma City.
Young Indian women who have never been married or born a child compete for the Miss Red Earth title not at a beauty pageant but through written applications. Critical to winning is a promise the applicant’s tribe will provide financial support for her to appear at events throughout the year as an ambassador for the Red Earth festival.
Applicants also are encouraged to list education and honors, and Ms. Franklin, 23, has lots of those. She’s a graduate of Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kan., where she was sports editor of the campus paper. Now she’s working on a master’s degree at Colorado State University.
I wish I could say the application process ended there but there’s one more requirement: An 8-by-10 photo in tribal regalia. So I guess looks matter too.
–Judy Gibbs Robinson, staff writer
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