NASA'S Marshall Center, Area Schoolchildren to Celebrate Native American Heritage Month Nov. 14 with Authentic Dance, Food, Activities
11.13.07
Betty Humphery
Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala.
256-544-0034
betty.b.humphery@nasa.gov
Media advisory: M07-124
What: On Nov. 14, Team Redstone, which includes NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and Army organizations on Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Ala., will invite more than 275 Huntsville-area schoolchildren to help celebrate Native American Heritage Month with a program of traditional Native American music, food, dance and more. The event will include traditional and mystic Native American dance in authentic regalia; storytelling; demonstrations of flint-knapping, campfire building and spear throwing; kids' games; preparation and tasting of traditional Indian fry bread and Three Sisters soup; and exhibits of Indian artifacts.
Who: Performers will include Scott Crisp, a Native American men's northern traditional dancer from Etowah, Tenn.; Daniel Tramper, a world-championship hoop dancer from rural North Carolina; and Jimmy "Yellowhorse" Webster, a flutist from Decatur, Ala. More than 275 Huntsville-area students, including those in home-school programs and classes from Rainbow Elementary School in Madison, will attend the festival.
When: Nov. 14, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Activities will run continuously to permit all students, employees, contractors and their families to observe or participate in each.
Where: The "Mississippi Mud House" site, near the Rustic Lodge off Patton Road on Redstone Arsenal, is a recreation of an authentic Native American structure being built by Ben Hoksbergen, U.S. Army archaeologist at Redstone Arsenal.
To attend: News media interested in covering the event should contact Betty Humphery in the Marshall Center's Public & Employee Communications Office at 256-544-0034 no later than 8 a.m. Nov. 14. Media must report to the Redstone Arsenal Joint Visitor Control Center at Gate 9, Interstate 565 interchange at Rideout Road/Research Park Boulevard. Vehicles are subject to a security search at the gate. News media will need two photo identifications and proof of car insurance. Visitor parking is available in front of Bldg. 4200 on the southwest side.
