Odenah, The Indian Market………..is what we have named the Indian Village. We have a large wigwam up and a smaller wigwam and 5 arbors and over the weekend we had vendors at the market. As soon as we can we will post the photos we have of the building of the market.
We have been blessed with the help of the youth works youth who are here in town doing work projects for the summer. Each week a new group of kids come and they are just amazed and excited to be building wigwams. For some it may well be the high light of their whole summer. for us its a pleasure working with and sharing knowledge with them.We do some story telling and teaching with them.Its a win win situation for everyone. Some one asked where our kids were and why they aren’t out there and I said well about 500 years ago ………………..and you know how the story goes. Actually I want to keep a positive out look here but along the way of the village we have learned somethings and one of these days I will blog about it and what we have learned.Meanwhile enjoy the pictures of the village and check back for pictures of the talent show and poetry slam.
The weather didn’t cooperate but the show went on and we had some class acts. But mainly we had fun and if there was ever a community who deserved to have some fun it is this community.
All this went on as a part of the big RIB FEST celebration the town does. Well, we choose to believe it was a part of the rib fest , after all they did put us on the schedule. And thats about as much collorboration that the Horizons Group has seen with any agenda item we have tried to implement. So success at last I would say. and just wait until next year. Meanwhile, I signed on As agent to “Candace and The BAD to the BONE Boys” So if any of you need a class act of song and dance to entertain you contact me and we will hook you up.
These young people were wonderful and it made all the work worth it watching them preform.
The poetry slam workshop was a sucess i would say. and we are getting ready ,maybe next year we will have a team going to the nationals in Chicago………..In fact we could send two teams One from the city and one from the rez. Oh the opportunity for youth out there. Unfortunately it all requires committed adults to make this work and sometimes around here it would appear that all the adults have already been committed or close to being there. Oh wait wrong kind of committment………………..anyway we are looking for more people to help with community projects. Pass the word.
First we have to cut poles and trim them so they look like poles not trees
Then we load the poles and transport them to the building site.
Next comes the task of bending the poles and tying them.
Then, we all get inside the completed lodge and say “Commodity cheese” for the camera!
This is a picture of some of the arbors we built. The village is a work in progress. We plan on building some more small wigwams (or lodges) and another big lodge.