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6th Annual Elder~Youth Conference
R.E.D. Elder~Youth Conference, now joined with Grandma Aggie's Salmon Gathering!
June 15-18, 2011
New location~Kanaka Flats (click below tipi photo on "read more" for other details).
6th Annual Elder~Youth Conference
Exciting news regarding new location and camp structure this year. . .we will be collaborating with Grandma Aggie's Salmon Gathering, hosting the Elder~Youth camp near the river where she has the Salmon Ceremony. Grandma has been asking for a culture camp to precede her Salmon Ceremony, and knowing that we host our Elder~Youth Conference at about the same time each year, we all decided to join camps and put our energies (and prayers!) together to create this logical and natural collaboration.
Native American Arts Festival and Mothers Day Pow Wow
Festival and Pow Wow on the Rogue River in Riverside Park, Grants Pass. All welcome, free event, come and enjoy the 17th Annual Native American Arts Festival and Mothers Day Pow Wow!
R.E.D. Biz/Crafting Meeting
Please join us for an organizational meeting to help support our Community Garden and the upcoming Elder~Youth Conference. Bring along crafting items if you'd like!
R.E.D. Biz/Crafting Meeting
Come join us for organizational meeting to support the R.E.D. Community Garden and upcoming Elder~Youth Conference. Bring along crafting items if you'd like!
Cesar Chavez Day
See "Home Page" of R.E.D. website for further details.
Cesar Chavez Day
Please join us as we celebrate the life and legacy of Farm Worker Leader
Cesar Chavez......Thursday, March 31 at 6:30pm in the Medford Public Library.
This year will feature music, dance and theater performances by local youth and adults.
Performers include Whistling Elk Drum, Ritmo Alegre, Amina Henry, Razas Unidas, KRUE 365 and Phoenix Elementary school students.
We will be recognizing two outstanding community members for their service to Latino youth, Mariann Rodriguez and Alejandra Ruiz.
World Peace and Prayer Day
In accordance to the vision of Arvol Looking Horse, Keeper of the Sacred Canunpa, Red Earth Descendants will honor World Peace and Prayer Day at a local sacred site in Southern Oregon, as we do annually. Stay tuned for location and time.
Prayer Pole Blessing
Four years ago, Grandma Aggie asked Red Earth Descendants to watch over the prayer pole, keep it alive, a place for the People to go and pray. R.E.D. has provided several of our families' sacred eagle feathers to honor this request. In those years, we've repeatedly had feathers stolen from the pole, interrupting the community prayer as well as creating a potential nuisance on City of Ashland property.
Native Games, 2011, Wrap-Up
Our 5th Annual "H.O.Y.E." ("Help Our Youth Excel") Native Games kicked off yesterday afternoon with great enthusiasm! After gathering snugly under canopies while the snow and rain blessed the field, we circled up and asked an Elder for an opening prayer--for safety on the shinny field, for the people who could not be there to play, for the ominous fate of people across the ocean in Japan, for these challenging times in which we are living. Click on "read more" under photos!
