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TRAVEL BACK IN TIME Cherokee Literacy Bicentennial The Cherokee Fall Festival will take visitors back in time. The Sequoyah Birthplace Museum, Tennessee’s only tribally owned museum, will host its 30th annual Cherokee Fall Festival on September 11th & 12th, from 10:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. each day. Visitors will have the opportunity to step back in time to experience Native American food, Cherokee arts and crafts demonstrations, music and dance. In the museum, they will be demonstrating their 1800’s Acorn Printing Press, printing their special bicentennial Cherokee Syllabary. A blacksmith will be doing on-site demonstrations in the shop both days. Other demonstrations and displays will include Cherokee life in 1700’s and a Civil War encampment. There will be a Civil War battle re-enactment at 2:00 p.m. This year’s theme will be Celebrating 200 years of Cherokee Literacy. Visitors will be
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able to meet and talk with Cherokees from the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina. Special entertainment will be provided by the Warrior Dancers of Ani-Kituhwa, who are the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians official ambassadors. Check out their reconstructed 1800’s dog-trot log cabin. Meet and chat with Miss Cherokee and have your name written in Cherokee. Also there will be Cherokee cooking demonstrations and Civil War gun display. Other activities include posters from Cherokee Elementary school. Darts, beads, talking sticks, face painting and free Cherokee name cards will be available for children. They will also host a children’s blowgun competition and an adult blowgun competition on both days. Traditional Indian Fry bread, Indian tacos, and other food and drinks will be sold.
This event is funded in part by Tennessee Arts Commission Rural Arts Program Grant and the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians. Tickets: adults are $10.00, children 13-18 years old are $5.00 and children 12 and under are free. A family rate for $25.00 is also available. For more information about the Festival, contact the Sequoyah Birthplace Museum at (423) 884-6246.
