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Piankeshaw Trails Presents School of the Native

With the arrival of Piankeshaw Trails to Shakamak State Park comes new activities including a program called School of the Native Journey Through Time which will take place April 26th and 27th at Shakamak State Park from 10:00am-4:00pm. The following was submitted by Sheryl Hartman of Piankeshaw Trails and explains the program and objectives.

School of the native will celebrate Woodland Indian Culture through Flute music, dances and drums which illustrate through movement and sound, how people view themselves and their surroundings. School of the Native is an event that will take visitors through some of the complex and often mysterious prehistoric cultures up through the colonial and settlement periods of the 18th and 19th centuries.

School of the Native attempts to revisit some of the past by utilizing live visual presentations of Woodland Indian life ways and the recreation of the various arts and in many instances inviting the visitors to join in.  This event honors Native Woodland People through arts and activities that engage the audience. The hosts of this event want the children and families of the community to leave the event with a much deeper understanding of cultural diversity and appreciation of those ancient ones who left their moccasin prints deeply imbedded on the face of mother earth.

The 2008 School of the Native will be highlighting such arts as coil wrapped pottery, stone tool manufacturing, storytelling, cordage making, and hide tanning, among many others. Most of these have been designated as, "lost arts" or "archaic arts," or even so called, "primitive arts." When you examine each of these and see how complex detailed knowledge goes into producing a finished product, "primitive" is not at all an appropriate definition for them.

 The visitor to the park will see many differences between our modern world and these ancient cultures but that is only at the surface, if you look closely, there are more similarities than differences. The utilization of plants for food, medicine, clothing, and utilitaraian purposes such as clothing, twine, dye and house covers illustrates how much ancient people relied upon their environment. Some activities such as hide tanning and food preparation are practical skills that enhanced everyday life and have become art forms because the techniques used to produce a finished product were so complex and often involved skill building. Visitors will get a chance to walk into Native dwellings used for a variety of purposes. A session on Woodland Clothing will introduce the visitor to the multi task preparations needed to obtain plant fibers and animal hides and turn them into fine clothing and teach the visitor how quickly the Woodland People adapted to trade goods. Visitors will also be encouraged to try their hand at finger weaving and spear throwing.

 We hope visitors to School of the Native will leave with a greater understanding of how the ancestors not only survived but thrived in their environment. Most 21st century citizens rely heavily upon others in society to provide the simplest of needs, going to the store to purchase food grown somewhere else. Everyone flips a switch to get lights and heat. The people of the northeastern cultures may not have had a button to push or a handle to turn, but what they did possess was a detailed working knowledge of their surroundings that helped them live with the environment, not conquer it. Piankeshaw presenters will show our visitors some of those ancient and complex life ways. Join us and become a sponsor for School of the Native at Shakamak State Park.

Thank you Sheryl Hartman for bringing your knowledge and skills to the area...

Join Piankeshaw Trails in their presentation of Journey Through Time "A Celebration of Native Woodland Indian Culture and Music" at Shakamak State Park April 26th and 27th from 10:00am-4:00pm.

Pow Wow at Shakamak State Park

There will be a pow wow at Shakamak State Park in Jasonville, Indiana complete with indian dancers, drums, and native craft vendors. This family event is open to the public.

For more info contact Reg at 812.268.0158

S.O.U.L. Spring Thaw Concert

S.O.U.L Spring Thaw Concert

When: April 12

Where: Roy Clark Building in Linton

What time: Doors open at 5:00, music starts at 5:30

Cost: $5 for adults, $2.50 for kids 12 and under

Bands: John Danner, Kade Puckett, Samurai Porkchop, Acousma, Precore, Katatonik, and TenStrip

Proceeds benefit S.O.U.L. to benefit the community.

E-mail any questions to untiy.of.soul@hotmail.com

Check us out online at www.myspace.com/unityofsoul

Shakamak Youth League Women's 16 and Older Slow Pitch Softball Tournament

The Shakamak Youth League in Jasonville will be hosting a women's 16 and older slow pitch softball tourney on Saturday April 26th and Sunday April 27th.  The tourney will be double elimination.  Cost is $150 per team.  Awards will be given to the 1st and 2nd place teams.  For more information, contact Mark Miller at (812) 665-2300 daytime or (812) 665-2168 evening or write to: Shakamak Youth League, c/o Mark Miller, P.O. Box 205, Jasonville, IN  47438.