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P.O. Box 1171 October-November-December, 2019
Lancaster, California 93584 Volume 35, Number 4

INSIDE THIS ISSUE PAGE #s

Celebration Report 2019 1 - 4
Save the Date - Holidays on the Homestead 4
2019 American Indian Celebration
Visiting Artist 5
BY MUSEUM CURATOR I, PEGGY RONNING
Friends of AVIM Directors 2019-2020 5
AVIM Contact Info & FAVIM Membership 6
The annual American Indian Celebration
continues to grow. This year we had 695
visitors on Saturday and 609 visitors on Sunday
http://www.avim.parks.ca.gov/info.shtml
plus 65 vendors and dancers, which is 113 more
people than last year.

This year we planned for a big crowd, so even
Danza Azteca Xochipilli returned to share their
though there was a lot of people, it didn't Aztec culture. The seats around the arena
seem crowded. In fact, many people thought stayed full all day. There were plenty of
attendance was down this year. The three opportunities for visitors to participate as
groups that knew attendance was up were Park
Master of Ceremonies Michael Runningwind
Interpreter Jean Rhyne and the Rangers who called for many friendships dances, couples
were selling tickets and parking cars like crazy, dances, and intertribals.
Cecelia Begay and her team who kept the fry
bread and Indian tacos coming at fast food
restaurant speeds, and the volunteers at the
touch table who sold 205 bags of clay!

One big change we made this year was to
create a second activity area in the garden in
front of Joshua Cottage. This area featured
Chumash storyteller Ted Garcia. The intimate
setting had seating for 15 people, and Ted did
not have to use a microphone to enhance his
voice.

The main arena focused on dancing. Drum
group Buffalo Creek provided songs for men's
traditional dancers, grass dancers, women's
traditional dancers, fancy shawl dancers, and Storm McMasters, Adrian Thunder Garcia,
jingle dress dancers. Sage Romero shared and Eagle McMasters
t raditional Pueblo hoop dances on Saturday.