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132nd Annual Otoe-Missouria EncampmentJuly 18-21 2013 Encampment Grounds Red Rock OK

Saturday July 20-11am Around the Encampment GroundsOtoe-Missouria Encampment Parade

Contact InfoHank Childs 580-402-4914

Donnie Childs 580-750-0020

Head Gourd DancerHootie Whitecloud

Head Lady DancerAmy NoEar

EmceesWallace CoffeyOliver Littlecook

Arena DirectorsJohn Arkeketa

Pat Moore

Water CarriersHunter Childs

Roy ChildsChe Deer

2012-2013 Princess Rickielynn Hughes

Co-HostsRed Rock Creek

Head Man DancerJoe Jones

Head Staff

2013-2014 Princess Shelby FawFaw

Head Gourd Dance SingerKiowa Charlie Cozad

Kiowa Gourd ClanInvited Guests

Head War Dance SingerMike Kihega

Contests & Events

SundayGolden Age Men

Women’s Buckskin & Cloth

Men’s Straight & Fancy

ThursdayTeepee Display Begins2013 Princess Crowning

First Timers SpecialsFamily Specials

Sunday MorningChurch ServicesArchery Contest

Encampment Chair Election

Friday

Tiny Tots & JuniorsTeen Fancy Shawl & JingleTeen Grass & Traditional

Otoe-Missouria CollegeGraduates Luncheon

& Parade-InSponsored by theArkeketa Family

Saturday Morning

Youth Olympics & GamesHorseshoe Tournament

Kathage Akiwena Jiwere5k & 1 Mile Fun Run

Encampment Parade: Prizes for Most Decorated Horse & Most Traditional

Otoe Male & Female

Saturday

Teen Cloth & BuckskinTeen Straight & FancyGolden Age Women

Women’s Fancy Shawl & JingleMen’s Grass & Traditional

Visitor’s Only Straight Dance

Past Otoe-Missouria PrincessLuncheon & Parade-In:

RSVP [email protected]

Food concession vendor$300-Contact Charmain Brown

580-402-5574

Arts & Crafts vendors$150-10' x 10' area

Contact Diana Plumley 405-255-8999

Prizes for Most Decorated-Horse-Most Traditional Dressed Otoe Man & Woman

-All are welcomed to participate-traditional clothing encouraged-Parade will begin at 11am and line up at 1030am -Line up will be at the north side entrance-Head staff, princesses and Encampment committee will parade-Elders will be provided a seat on a trailer as space is available-Due to space limitations vehicles will not be allowed-Golf carts, walkers, horses only-Numbers will be given out to participants during line up-The winners will be announced immediately following the parade

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BINGER>Caddo Songs Tuesdays, 7 pmCaddo Nation Cultural Building>>

EDMOND>Otoe Language ClassesTuesdays, 6 pm 580-723-4466, [email protected]>>

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OKLAHOMA CITY>Indian Hills Pow WowWeekend of July 26-28, 9300 N Sooner RdContact Ruth Factor: 405-285-0122http://calendar.powwows.com/events/63rd-annual-indian-hills-pow-wow/>>

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Images Courtesy Shan Goshorn

>SHAN GOSHORN’S SINGING BASKETS>by heather ahtone>>

T ulsa resident Shan Goshorn is having a once in a lifetime kind of year. Goshorn has been

awarded one of the five prestigious 2013 Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowships, she received three awards at the 2013 Annual Heard Market, she’s getting ready to travel to the National Museum of the American Indian on a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship and a 2013 SWAIA Discovery Fellowship that includes a cash award and a premier location for the annual Santa Fe Indian Market. The Eiteljorg Fellowship includes an unrestricted cash award and an exhibition at the museum, scheduled to open in November later this year. Like all great things, it is the payoff of a great deal of hard work. Goshorn, who is a member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina, has been a professional artist for over thirty years. Her career shifted in 2008 when she began incorporating her photography with texts printed on paper and weaving them into Cherokee basket forms. Her early baskets were immediately collected by and for national museums. More importantly, the public response to the baskets was deeply emotional and affected Goshorn’s interest in exploring what potential they held. At the Red Earth Festival in 2010, one elderly Kiowa woman was moved to tears in the booth upon seeing a coffin-shaped basket that was woven with the faces of the children who had attended the Carlisle Indian School in 1912. The baskets have been met with that kind of emotional response wherever they have been exhibited and it has invigorated Goshorn’s interest in continuing to weave them. One of the baskets that will be exhibited in the Eiteljorg Museum’s Fellowship exhibition is “Cherokee Burden Basket: Singing a Song for Balance.” Just over twenty-three inches high, the basket is woven in the traditional form of a Cherokee burden basket. The walls are constructed from a group of documents

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were built into carefully organized bands wrapping around the shifting volume. The overall form creates a dark hollow symbolically representing the empty relationship that tribes had to the new place. Jackson and his supporters could not have imagined, if they had so chosen, the burden they had created for tribes to reestablish themselves in the new spaces. >

Goshorn, who understands that these traditions can still be maintained even against oppression,

wove a strand of paper dyed in the four sacred colors of the Cherokee into each of the sides of the baskets to mark the four directions. These sacred colors are overprinted with the Cherokee morning and evening songs. Goshorn’s simplistic incorporation of the directional colors subtly recognizes that the larger orders of the universe are not subject to human interference. As the sun still rises, Native people still rise to pray to the east and have found a way to bring their traditions with them, even into the twenty-first century. Goshorn described, “I believe that these traditional ways help to center us in the midst of all this oppression.” Tribes that call Oklahoma “home” have found a way to carry that burden and set roots that are now almost two centuries deep. As the title speaks to it, the basket is a contemporary work of art that serves to communicate that despite what burdens that tribes have brought with them into our present time and their current homes, the traditions found in the songs and the traditional arts serve to bring them into that harmonic place where being Cherokee, and Oklahoma, and American are not mutually exclusive nor necessarily antagonistic. Goshorn’s year is not over yet, and with national events still yet to take place this fall, she can only sit back and enjoy whatever may come. For those who cannot wait until the next time she exhibits locally she can be contacted at her website for more information:http://www.shangoshorn.com. >Heather Ahtone (Choctaw/Chickasaw) is the James T. Bialac Assistant Curator of Native American and Non-Western Art at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma.

printed on warm, earthy brown tones that include: the Indian Removal Act of 1830, the Treaty of New Echota that removed Cherokee people from their homelands, Colonel Richard Pratt’s speech from which we get the “Kill the Indian, Save the Man” colloquialism, a list of high statistics about Domestic Violence in Indian Country, images of bottles of alcohol a list of stereotypical references and commercial products that feature American Indians, and the New Testament translated in Cherokee. These documents, Goshorn explained, “are many things that have been a burden to Cherokee people and that have separated and removed us from our homelands and the traditions.”

The basket metaphorically represents the burden that tribes had to carry with them as they removed their cultures into a foreign place. The mouth of the form at the top is wide and circular. The sides follow that same openness down to neck that steps inward pulling the sides in closer at the lower half, and wind down into a square bottom. Goshorn used the text documents, spliced and prepared so that each warp carries distinct text, as a visual reminder the roles each has contributed to the contemporary Cherokee identity. The documents are each a distinct color and

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Cherokee Burden Basket: Singing A Song For Balance

Shan Goshorn, 2012

>This basket is created in the shape of a traditional Cherokee

Burden basket. Historically, this basket would have a leather or

cloth strap woven under the rim, to support to weight of a heavy

load such as corn, nuts, bedding or firewood. The basket would be

worn on the back with the straps looped around the shoulders or

arms, similar to a backpack.

The splints are printed with treaties, statistics and other

relevant texts from a variety of soures. The splints on the interior

of this basket were painted in deep muted colors to emphasize

the darkness of these burdens to Indian people. A single splint

centering each side was painted red, blue, white and black,

symbolizing the four sacred colors and directions to the Cherokee.

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