Schedule of Events
 Bicentennial Plaza – Performance Stage
Demonstrations and Displays
Hands-On Activities
Discovery Tour
Tutelo Language Lessons
Beadworking Workshop
Exhibits/Displays
Storytelling
Films
Food Vendors
Bicentennial Plaza – Performance Stage
11:00 a.m.–11:15 a.m.
Master of Ceremonies – Tony Clark (Lumbee)
Southern- and Northern-Style Drumming
Southern Sun Drum Group (intertribal)
Red Wolf Drum Group (intertribal)
11:45 a.m.–noon
Calling of Dancers
Noon–12:45 p.m.
Grand Entry
Call of Nations: Tribes and Organizations
Coharie – Gene Faircloth, Chief
Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians – Michell Hicks, Chief
Haliwa-Saponi – Ronald Richardson, Chief
Lumbee – Jimmy Goins, Chair
Meherrin – Thomas Lewis, Chief
Occaneechi Band of Saponi Nation – Tony Hayes, Chair
Sappony – Otis Martin, Chief
Waccamaw-Siouan – Roscoe Jacobs, Chief
Cumberland County Association – Roy Maynor, Chair
Guilford Native American Association – Frances Stewart-Lowery, Chair
Metrolina Native American Association – Earlene Stacks, Chair
Triangle Native American Society – Lana Dial, President
Welcome
Prayer and Invocation
Reading of Proclamation
Flag and Veterans’ Song
12:45 p.m.–2:00 p.m.
Dance Demonstrations
2:00 p.m.–2:30 p.m.
Ani-Kuwih (Mulberry) Dancers, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians
2:30 p.m.–4:00 p.m.
Dance Demonstrations
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Demonstrations and Displays
11:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.
Lobby Level
Pine needle baskets: Loretta Oxendine (Lumbee)
Gourd carving and pottery: Herman Oxendine (Lumbee)
Pottery: Senora Lynch (Haliwa-Saponi)
Stone carving: Freeman Owle (Eastern Band of the Cherokee)
Drawing and painting: Mickey Patrick (Waccamaw-Siouan)
Pottery: James Locklear (Lumbee)
Silver work: Brian Lynch (Haliwa-Saponi)
Corn babies: Phyllis Lowery (Lumbee)
Weapon making: John Blackfeather Jeffries (Occaneechi-Saponi)
Pottery and carving: Josh Dugan (Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians)
Pottery: Joel Queen (Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians)
Foodways display: Angela Huskey and Tony Hayes (Occaneechi-Saponi)
Third Floor
Medicinal herbs: Mary Sue Locklear (Lumbee)
Carving demonstration of walking sticks: Members of Sappony tribe
Arrowhead display: Patrick Stewart (Sappony)
Beadwork: Pat Richardson and Carol Brewington (Coharie)
Museum Entrance
Wampum and jewelry making: Andrew Hunter (Meherrin)
Dugout canoe: Forest Hazel and Roger Hayes (Occaneechi-Saponi)
Bicentennial Plaza
Information booth: Triangle Native American Society and Wake County Indian Education Program
Capitol Grounds
Longhouse construction: Arnold Richardson and Alvin Evans (Haliwa-Saponi), and Denyce Hall (Meherrin)
1:00 p.m., 2:00 p.m., 3:00 p.m.
Capitol Grounds
Weapons demonstration: Jeremy Currie (Lumbee)
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Hands-On Activities
11:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.
Lobby Level
Quilting with the Coharie Quilters
Scavenger hunt—register to win prizes
Grinding corn
Imprinting pottery designs
Making Cherokee name badges
Wheel of History—spin the wheel and test your knowledge of American Indian history
Third Floor
Making jingle cones
Creating beadwork patterns
Finger weaving: staff from Town Creek Indian Mound State Historic Site
Mini-classes on the creation of dream catchers: Members of Sappony tribe
Tribal tattoos: Members of Sappony tribe
Capitol Grounds
Making Cherokee bean games and corncob darts
Playing Indian games: chunkey, bean games, reed games, corncob dart game
Blow gun activity—test your aim with a blow gun
Museum Entrance
Carving canoes—watch the canoe-burning demonstration, then carve a canoe from soap to take home
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Discovery Tour: Early American Indian Life
1:15 p.m., 2:15 p.m., 3:15 p.m.
Third Floor
Learn how North Carolina’s first people lived centuries ago. Handle reproduction objects.
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Tutelo Language Lessons
12:30 p.m., 2:30 p.m.
Red Room—Lobby Level
Find out about the language of Tutelo from Marty Richardson (Haliwa-Saponi), then learn some words and phrases.
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Beadworking Workshop
1:30 p.m., 3:30 p.m.
Red Room—Lobby Level
Register at the front desk for these mini-workshops led by Qua Lynch (Haliwa-Saponi). Each workshop is limited to 15 participants ages 8–17. Made possible by Ornamentea.
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Exhibits/Displays
11:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.
Third Floor
Community and Culture: North Carolina Indians Past and Present
An exploration of how the state’s American Indians have maintained their cultural traditions through pottery making, corn use, and the games of stickball and chunkey
Tsalagi and Creation
Soapstone carving by storyteller, artist, historian, and elder Freeman Owle (Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians)
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Storytelling
Purple Room—Lobby Level
Emcee:
1:00 p.m.–1:20 p.m.
Gwen Locklear (Lumbee)
1:30 p.m.–1:50 p.m.
Lloyd Arneach (Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians)
2:00 p.m.–2:20 p.m.
Lawrence Dunmore (Occaneechi-Saponi)
2:30 p.m.–2:50 p.m.
Lloyd Arneach (Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians)
3:00 p.m.–3:20 p.m.
Gwen Locklear (Lumbee)
3:30 p.m.–3:50 p.m.
Lawrence Dunmore (Occaneechi-Saponi)
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Films
Auditorium—Lobby Level (cancelled if inclement weather)
11:45 a.m., 12:45 p.m., 1:45 p.m., 2:45 p.m.
In the Heart of Tradition: The Eight State-Recognized Tribes of North Carolina and the North Carolina Commission of Indian Affairs
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Food Vendors
11:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.
Bicentennial Plaza
Sappony tribe: fried pies, sweet potato fries
Illyas Concessions: turkey legs, ribbon fries, funnel cakes
Mills on Wheels: barbecue, fry bread, Indian tacos
Wake County Indian Education Program: beverages
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