FW: Native American Day in Blue Rapids

[Pat Embers]

In supporting a rural museum trying to sustain the area's rural, cultural heritage, come join some of us from FHRC in Blue Rapids this Saturday, 8/24, for their Native American Day.  Georgia Perez will be there, a Sac & Fox local area resident whom some of you may know, with her hand-made Indian arts & crafts.  Drumming, singing, dancing and stone medicine wheel teaching will happen in the center of town in their Round Town Square.  The museum and town shops across the street are fun to browse.  Come for an Indian lunch, bring your drums & rattles (extras available), a medicine wheel stone for your birth date, and enjoy this outing, 45 minutes north on Rte. 77.  

One person has offered to carpool so far.  Let me know if you can make it and I'll put you in contact.  Call me at 785-539-2819 or email emb...@cox.net.  

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Pat Embers

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DOING IT ALL AT THE BLUE RAPIDS MUSEUM

Drumming, Dancing, Shopping, Eating, Looking, Learning

 

The Blue Rapids Museum’s plans for August 24^th just got better.  Georgia Perez who has the Perez Trading Post in Westmoreland will have handmade Native American items for sale on the Round Town Square by 11:00 am if not before.  Georgia learned how to do Native American beadwork from her grandmother and has been doing it for more than 50 years.  She also learned leatherwork and basket weaving from her grandmother and enjoys other folk art as well.  Perez promised her grandmother that she would keep the ancient traditions alive.

The Museum at #36 Public Square will open at 9:00 for the showing of its Native American displays.  The Sutton exhibit of working phonographs and clocks from the 1900s-1940s will also be open.  From 12:00 to 1:00, a Native American lunch of beefalo stew, fry bread, corn and black bean salad and Indian pudding will be served as a fund raiser for the Museum.  Dine in or outside.  Drumming will be heard across the street in the park.  Bring your drums, rattles and lawn chairs and join in.  At 1:30, Pat Embers, a long time drummer will interpret a Native American Medicine Wheel as the stones are placed in a circle.  More drumming lessons will follow as well as a chance to join an Indian dance.

You are invited to bring a special stone to place on the zodiac signs on the Medicine Wheel to represent you.  The proper way to remove a stone from the ground for this purpose is to leave a pinch of tobacco or a hair from your head on the ground where you have removed the stone.

If you need more information call Pat Osborne 785 363 7949 at the Museum, Pat Embers 785 539 2819 or Georgia Perez 785 457 3603 evenings.