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Lancaster, California 93584 October - November - December, 2017
Volume 33, Number 4
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2017 American Indian Celebration
2017 American Indian Celebration Report 1 - 7
Report A Visit to H. A. Edwards House in Eagle Rock 7 -12
BY MUSEUM CURATOR, PEGGY RONNING Save the Date
PHOTOS BY JOHN MARTIN Annual Museum Celebration 12 - 12
More Museum Info, online & Facebook
Friends of AVIM Directors 2016-2017 13 - 14
Everyone enjoyed the AVIM American Indian
AVIM Contact Info & F AVIM Membership 15 - 16
Celebration on October 21 and 22. We had 346
visitors on Saturday and 402 visitors on Sunday,
a total of 7 48 visitors for the weekend. Last http://www.avim.parks.ca.gov/info.shtml
year we had 792 visitors.
FAVIM board member Cydnee Ashmore (Dine)
shared their language, songs, and stories with
shared her pow wow experience and visitors on Saturday.
connections in the Native community to bring
the event to a higher level. She recruited
On Saturday, family and friends held an
professional Master of Ceremonies Michael
honoring ceremony for Paul Begay (Dine) who
Runningwind (Seneca/Chiricahua Apache) to
was killed in a tragic accident on Highway 14
oversee activities in the dance arena. In
in May, 2017. Paul's son, Sean Paul Begay,
addition to keeping things moving, Michael provided a moving and inspiring tribute to his
called for a variety of dances, all of which he
father. Paul was known to museum visitors as
explained to the audience. Cydnee also
the artist who made the beautiful gourd
recruited Brendon Youngbear Urdanivia
dreamcatchers sold in the museum gift shop,
(Navajo/Tewa) and his drum group Buffalo
and he staffed the family jewelry booth at the
Creek to provide Northern Traditional Style
Celebration while his wife made fry bread.
songs for the dancers. Thanks to the recruiting Paul grew up on the Navajo Reservation in
efforts of Cydnee Ashmore and museum Monument Valley, but he lived in the Antelope
volunteer Raven Magpie-Rivera, 16 dancers Valley for many years while working as a
joined us for the Celebration this year, Registered Nurse for Los Angeles County.
including grass, men's traditional, women's
traditional, women's fancy, and jingle Cecelia Begay's busy crew worked hard all
dancers.
weekend making frybread and Indian tacos for
our appreciative visitors, many of whom
Our local southern California peoples were also
attend the event just for the frybread! FAVIM
represented. Chumash storytellers Ted and
board member Betsy Matheny operated the
Dennis Garcia provided the blessing and shared beverage booth with help from the Torno Kahni
traditional songs and stories. Fernandeno volunteers: Phyllis Comstock, Jerrie Cowan,
Tataviam President Rudy Ortega Junior, his Sally Curran and Cynthia Waldman.
two young sons, and tribal member Ray Rivera
