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Author Matthew "Maasaw" Howard featured at Indian Village 2022

8/29/2022

This year’s Indian Village features outdoor Elder Talking Circles. The Indian Village’s collection of exhibits, demonstrations and hands-on activities include: Native arts and crafts; beadwork; pottery; flint napping, wild-color tie dye; morel mushroom propagation; rock, gems and crystals; ancient healing practices; leather goods; wooden flutes; food is medicine garden; music; Native American regalia exhibit; fishing trap weaving; bones, stones and other treasures; as well as community healing.

The Historic Bluemont 52nd Annual Fair
The Indian Village
Sept. 17-18, 2022
10:00 am – 5:00
North West Virginia about 70 Miles Northwest of D.C.
Follow General Free Parking Signs to
Snickersville Turnpike, Bluemont, VA 20135

Directions
Enter off of Snickersville Turnpike (follow the signs on Rt. 734) in Bluemont, Va. 20135 (one hour west of D.C., 17 miles from Leesburg Va. and east of Winchester Va. on Rt. 7.)
Fair general admission is only $10, children nine and under are free.
Sorry, no pets. Free parking is available.

Suspended Reading Room Features 40+ Books at Indian Village 2021

9/14/2021

Overall, fair activities, traffic details and parking map are explained on the Bluemont Fair schedule at www.Bluemontfair.org. The Indian Village and Fair is Sept. 18-19 10:00 am – 5:00 pm in the town of Bluemont. Directions: Enter off of Snickersville Turnpike (follow the signs on Rt. 734) in Bluemont, Va. 20135 (one hour west of D.C., 17 miles from Leesburg Va. and east of Winchester Va. on Rt. 7.) Fair general admission is only $10, children nine and under are free. Sorry, no pets. Free parking is available.

Children's Books Among 40+ Native American Books at Indian Village

9/13/2021

Visit the Indigenous Hall Suspended Reading Room Sept. 18-19, 2021 at the Bluemont Fair in NW Virginia.

Author Matthew "Maasaw" Howard featured at Indian Village 2021

9/13/2021

Check out the Suspended Reading Room in the Indigenous Hall during the Bluemont Fair Sept. 17-18, 2021.

Matthew "Maasaw" Howard (Cherokee) has been discovering American Indian sites for over five years. To date, he has discovered eight sites from Canada to Virginia. He is a published author of Adonvdo Yona (Bear Spirit) Mountain, An Ancestral Awakening and As I Rest, Let My Face Touch Heaven. He also teaches courses at a local university and lectures around the country on American Indian culture and burial practices.

Overall, fair activities, traffic details and parking map are explained on the Bluemont Fair schedule at www.Bluemontfair.org. The Indian Village and Fair is Sept. 18-19 10:00 am – 5:00 pm in the town of Bluemont. Directions: Enter off of Snickersville Turnpike (follow the signs on Rt. 734) in Bluemont, Va. 20135 (one hour west of D.C., 17 miles from Leesburg Va. and east of Winchester Va. on Rt. 7.) Fair general admission is only $10, children nine and under are free. Sorry, no pets. Free parking is available.

Author of Southeastern Woodland Designs Book Featured

9/13/2021

Indian Village 2021

This outdoor resource-event is of great significance to everyone interested in Native American Culture and features Native American Indian Jamie Oxendine a Lumbee author of “Southeastern Woodland Designs,” a book for adults and children.

“Jamie’s book has 23-pages of tribal patterns that can be used to create jewelry, paintings, tattoos and fabric designs, or as coloring book,” explained Sanctuary on the Trail Co-Founder and Lumbee Indian René Locklear White. “Jamie’s book will intrigue and captivate people of all ages and can serve as an important classroom teaching-aid. You will find Jamie’s book in the center of our suspended reading-room.”

The Wizard of Oz Author Advocated "Extermination" of Native Americans in the 1890's

6/23/2017

Finding out that childhood heroes have feet of clay is nothing new. Sometimes it can actually be reassuring in an odd way, that they too are human. But then you stumble across something like this and you have to completely re-evaluate everything you thought you know about someone.
L. Frank Baum, before he wrote The Wonderful Wizard of Oz ran a newspaper in South Dakota. This was in the early 1890's during the Indian Wars. When Baum heard of the killing of Sitting Bull and the massacre at Wounded Knee, he wrote editorials calling for killing each and every last Native American.

-- Source: JJ Sutherland NPR

Baum's Annihilation Remarks

But all is not wonderful in Oz. The beloved children’s author did another kind of writing before the Wizard of Oz became a household name. Editorials reportedly written by Baum in the late 1800s called for the genocide of American Indians.
The editorials can be found at various places on the Internet; the two most well known are the Sitting Bull Editorial and the Wounded Knee Editorial. Many people in Indian country may have heard about the editorials, but have never actually seen them.
Wherever the truth lies, L. Frank Baum’s legacy of enchantment and whimsy has been permanently scarred by the two editorials written 10 years before “The Wizard of OZ.” Scholars and historians will continue to debate whether the 1890-91 editorials were merely a mirror of the society in which Baum lived or if he really wanted to see the Great Sioux Nation wiped off the face of the earth.

- Source: Indian Country Today

Thank you Jessica Clark, Lumbee Indian school teacher for bringing this story to our attention.

The Gathering Author Michael GrayHawk Parsons "Hope on Hatterask"

11/24/2015

If you did not get to meet or hear Michael GrayHawk Parsons at The Gathering, check out his book:

Hope On Hatterask is fundamentally a true story about three very different early nineteenth century characters who are brought together through an unlikely series of profound events in each of their lives. They are: Elijah, an adolescent orphaned Scotch Irish boy struggling to survive the port ghettos of Northern Ireland; Embato, a proud young West African warrior whose whole life is abruptly and dramatically altered forever by both fellow Africans and pale skinned intruders from lands an ocean

100% if any sales of this book from this web site go directly to the author - helping our leaders help others.

away; and a brave adolescent Eastern Coastal Native American woman who faces constant oppression and danger on a colonized continent that only two centuries earlier was occupied and controlled exclusively by her own people. The story takes place in the early 1800s and chronicles their lives from early adolescence through early young adulthood. Each character’s individual culture, ethnicity, spirituality, geography of origin, and ancestral history is explored in detail.

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The Gathering Author Philip Burnham "Dewey Beard, Last Survivor of Little Bighorn"

11/24/2015

If you did not get to meet or hear Philip Burnham at The Gathering, check out his book "Dewey Beard, Last Survivor of Little Bighorn."

Beard was not only a witness to two major battles against the Lakota; he also traveled with William “Buffalo Bill” Cody’s Wild West show, worked as a Hollywood Indian, and witnessed the grand transformation of the Black Hills into a tourism mecca. Beard spent most of his later life fighting to reclaim his homeland and acting as “old Dewey Beard,” a living relic of the “old West” for the tourists.

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Philip Burnham is a teacher and a free-lance journalist/historian based on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. Burnham has published in American Heritage, The Washington Post, MHQ, Transition, Emerge, The Columbia Journalism Review, and Indian Country Today. He is currently a Term Assistant Professor at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, where he teaches beginning and advanced writing courses.

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The Gathering Author Ira Wallace, "Vegetable Gardening in the Southeast"

11/24/2015

If you did not get to meet or hear Ira Wallace at The Gathering, she is available online. She is author of the 2013 book The Timber Press Guide to Vegetable Gardening in the Southeast and speaker, blog author, contributor to Mother Earth News blog.

This new book by Southern Exposure Seed Exchange's own gardening expert Ira Wallace gives home gardeners the regionally specific information needed to succeed in our hot, humid climate. It features what to plant, when to plant it, and when to harvest, based on our climate, weather, and other info.

100% if any sales of this book from this web site go directly to the author - helping our leaders help others.

The southeast region includes Alabama, Arkansas, northern Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, N. Carolina, S. Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, W. Virginia, and a slice of NE Texas.

Monthly planting guides show exactly what you can do in the garden from January through December. The “Skill Sets” in the book go beyond the basics, with tutorials on seed saving, worm bins, and much more. This book also includes a comprehensive gardening primer and an A-to-Z of edibles - a detailed guide for the region’s tried-and-true varieties. Softcover, 216 pp.

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The Gathering Illustrator Lex Avellino Innovation and Illustration

11/24/2015

If you did not get to meet The Gathering of Illustrator Lex Avellino, check him out.

If you’re looking for someone to listen to your ideas and create beautiful illustrations for your children’s story, then you’ve found the right person for the job. Lex can create any sort of illustration you need along with full, formatted covers. Check out some reviews and my portfolio HERE. The work speaks for itself.

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