Update from Teneisha
Today we visited the Winter Pow Wow presentations at the State Fair
Grounds. Every year Native American communities from around the United
States Gather here each year compete with each other on Dance Styles,
Costume Decoration and Drumming. They also give the audience members a
chance to experience different dances which the kids enjoyed. They also
got the chance to see how Dream Catchers and Flutes were made and to ask
questions about the use of certain dances. They got to touch and taste
different aspects of Native American Culture and they had numberous
questions! I think that in the future we will need to seek out a person
willing to discuss Native American culture, which I am not an expert on,
:)with the kids. We always have an amazing time whereover and whatever
activities that I have planned. I have been very lucky to have core
students interested in everything and I want to take this time to thank
them for all of their feedback and things that they would like to do,
places they like to go and we have never stopped talking about our
experience in Mexico last summer. More updates coming soon!