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November Issue
2009
McKissick Museum
in Columbia, SC, Features Exhibit for Native American Indian
Heritage Month
The
Eastern Cherokee, Southern Iroquois and United Tribes of South
Carolina, Inc. has collaborated with the McKissick Museum of the
University of South Carolina in Columbia, SC, to celebrate National
Native American Indian Heritage Month by exhibiting Cherokee
and Catawba Indian arts. This exhibition, Paths for the Generations-
Arts and Crafts Expressions of Cherokee and Catawbas, is being held
in conjunction with the SC Commission of Minority Affairs
and The 2nd Bi Annual Statewide Native American Conference,
"Paths for the Generations: Building Ourselves and Our Communities." The
Exhibition will be open for viewing from Nov. 4-30, 2009.
The exhibition will feature: Catawba Indian pottery, Cherokee baskets, Cherokee Quilts, Cherokee beadwork, and many other items.
The statewide conference will bring the best information, events and activities together to celebrate National Native American Indian Heritage Month including the 12th Annual Native American Indian Film and Video festival of the southeastern United States will be held Nov. 5-8, 2009, at USC Russell House Theater and at the Nickelodeon Theater in Columbia.
Thursday Nov. 5, 2009, will be an Arts Focused day at the Conference held at USC Russell House with a statewide Juried Arts Exhibition that will be open for visitation from 3-8pm, Russell House, 2nd Floor, representing artists from throughout the entire state of South Carolina. This Exhibition will culminate with awards given to artists in the following categories: "Best" in the various categories (youth, contemporary, mix-media, photography and traditional) and "Best Overall". The Exhibition will continue to be available for viewing on Friday.
On Saturday Nov. 7, 2009, there will be a more interactive festival approach that will include a Cultural Panel and Cultural Events and Exhibits (artist demonstrations, flint knapping, beading, basket making, pottery making-Keith Brown, music-flute/drum, dance, storytelling with Kui Clearwater, and Grandfather Strong Heart Southern Drum).
Every year Native American
Heritage month tells tales of our traditional and cultural stories.
Capturing and painting a sacred peoples journey of survival through
time. How, as Native Indigenous Peoples of the continent we call
"Turtle Island", we found ourselves embattled to rightfully
exist on our Tribal homelands thereby being forced to co-exist
through hundreds of years of invasions, that ultimately lead our
virtual genocide. Today Native Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island
are, resilient, proud, strong peoples, resistant to defeat. Surviving
hundreds of years of attempts of desecration and colonization,
well into this 21st century. Our Nations stand strong in our sacred
cultural reformations.
The exhibition and statewide conference is free to the public
and all are welcomed!
For further information
call 803/699-0446 or e-mail to (nativetalent6@aol.com).
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