Saturday, Aug 17, 2024 from 10:00am to 6:00pm
Saturday and Sunday August 17th and 18th, 2024. Gates open 10:00 am until 6:00 pm rain or shine. Grand Entrance is at 12:00 noon. Admission: $10 adults, $7 children 12-17 and seniors over 62, FREE for children 11 and under.
Bring your lawn chairs and blankets and join Museum of Indian Culture for a weekend of live Native American drumming, singing and dancing.
Premiering this year is Canadian country and blues powerhouse Crystal Shawanda, performing both days at 11 a.m. and again at 4 p.m.. Crystal is from Wiikwemkoong First Nation on Manitoulin Island in Ontario. She became the first full blood Indigenous woman to appear in the Top 20 on the American Billboard Country Music chart, and the first to win a Juno award for "Blues album of the year" in 2020, and the first to appear in the Top 10 of the American Billboard Blues chart in 2022.
The festival includes activities for people of all ages, including: a children's hand-on activity area where they can learn to make Native American style and help paint our Roasting Ears of Corn Festival mural. Other activities include face painting, pony rides, life skills demonstrations including Atlatl and Tomahawk throwing, flint knapping, primitive fire making, flute making, and Native Cooking; and artifact displays by the Indian Artifact Collectors Association of the Northeast; and Cree demonstrator Katrina Fisher will present her award-winning Plains teepee program.
Vendors will offer hand-crafted items such as handmade Navajo and Zuni silver jewelry, Iroquois wampum jewelry and bead work, Kachina dolls, pottery, leather clothing, moccasins and handbags, hand drums, soap stone carvings, dreamcatchers and other crafts. American Indian cuisine of Frybread, buffalo burgers, buffalo stew, Indian Tacos, blueberry wajopi, corn soup and of course....fire roasted corn!
The Museum of Indian Culture is a non-profit, member supported organization dedicated to presenting, preserving, and perpetuating the history and cultural heritage of the Northeast Woodland Indians and other American Indian Tribes.
Date and Time: Saturday, 17 August 2024 at 10:00 to Sunday, 18 August 2024 at 18:00
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