Library to feature month-long series exploring American Indian culture
Posted on Sunday, March 9, 2008
The Fayetteville Public Library will host a monthlong series of events celebrating American Indian culture.
All of the events are presented through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. They include a genealogy workshop Saturday and a series of lunch workshops throughout March.
The American Indian series is one of five that will be presented at the library this year on different topics as part of the National Endowment for the Humanities grant. The library will do an in-depth exploration of each topic, Sarah Terry, marketing and communications manager for the library, said.
In this case, rock art, the Trail of Tears and Native American art will be part of the in-depth exploration.
"We wanted to look at the American Indian culture," Terry said.
The topic, she said, is of interest to many people in Northwest Arkansas, and there are a lot of them who have ties to that culture.
Scheduled for noon Wednesday in the Ann Henry Board Room at the library is "Slide-Talk: Iconography in Arkansas Rock Art," when Arkansas Archeological Survey archeologist Jerry Hilliard will demonstrate how rock art sites were important to local groups and will explore art motifs and various Arkansas sites.
A workshop on American Indian genealogy is set from 10: 30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday in the Walker Community Room at the library. Kathy Huber with the Genealogy Center in Tulsa will present a program on the most effective tools used to locate American Indian ancestors among the Five Civilized Tribes. Registration is required.
Nationally celebrated artist Charles Banks Wilson will present an informal talk about his art beginning at noon March 19 in the Ann Henry Board Room at the library. He will also talk about American Indian culture and history.
A presentation will be given beginning at noon on March 22 in the Ann Henry Board Room at the library on the Trail of Tears. Susan Yound, outreach coordinator at Shiloh Museum and secretary of Heritage Trail Partners, and John McLarty, vice president of Heritage Trail Partners, will lead a walking tour of the Trail of Tears form the library to the Sixth Street historical Trail of Tears site.
Tony Tiger, an Oklahoma artist and adjunct professor at Bacone College in Muskogee, Okla., will give a talk beginning at noon on March 26 in the Ann Henry Board Room at the library on contemporary American Indian art. Tiger will discuss his own artwork with American Indian themes in mixed media as well as contemporary American Indian art.
The Oklahoma Fancy Dancers performed Saturday at the Fayetteville Public Library as part of the library's month-long series of events celebrating American Indian culture.
The dancers are a premier group of intertribal dancers and singers who present American Indian culture through word and dance. Using drumming, flute-playing and singing, they perform dances from a variety of American Indian tribes.
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