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Next CAHC Meeting:
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HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM THE CHEROKEE ARTS & HUMANITIES COUNCIL

The Twelve Days of Native Christmas is a visual and musical adaptation of the well-known classic Christmas song, representing a Native American perspective.
It is a VisionMaker Video. For more information: http://visionmaker.semkhor.com/
product.asp?s=visionmaker&pf_id=
12DY-09-H&dept_id=23427

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For more information about the
Cherokee Artists Gadugi,
contact Bill Glass, HCR 64 Box
1410, Locust Grove, OK, 74352,
or online at sculptor@sstelco.com

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CherokeeHeritage CenterAnnounces Cherokee Homecoming Art Show and SaleWinners

Bill Glass, Jr. Winner Best In Show

PARK HILL , Okla. – The winners of
the 14th Annual Cherokee Home-coming Art Show and Sale which ended in October at the Cherokee Heritage
Center are at the following link:

MORE  And List of Winners                        

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NEWS BRIEFS:

gwytutsi@yahoo.com

Cherokee History
Course In Stilwell

The Cherokee Nation history course is currently not being taught by Roy Hamilton or Gene Norris. It is anticipated their class will return in the Fall of 2010, perhaps the Summer.

Thank you for our patience. For more information about this class email Roy at gwytutsi@yahoo.com or Gene at genealogy@cherokeeheritage.org

__ Lanugage Classes __________

The Muldrow Community Cherokee Association needs a Cherokee
Language Teacher. If you are a
certified language teacher please contact us
- gwytutsi@yahoo

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Living Treasure Artist
Tribute Art Show and Sale Opening

An art exhibit showcasing the work ofCherokee Living Treasure artists will begin with an opening reception from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Dec. 4 at the Jane Osti Studio. The studio is located across the road from the Cherokee Nation Tribal Council House in Tahlequah.

Items for sale will include baskets, bows, buffalo grass dolls, ceramics, clay beads, gigs, gourds, masks, pottery and sculptures. The exhibit will remain open throughout December and January.

Featured artists include Wanna Barton, Shawna Cain, Dorothy Ice, Hastings Shade, Wendall Cochran, Lorene Drywater, Bessie Russell, Richard Shade, Roger Cain, Bill Glass Jr., David Scott and Jane Osti.
The Cherokee Native Art and Plant Society is sponsoring the exhibit. For more information, call (918) 453-0449. 

GUESTBOOK

CALENDER

"Nanyehi" presented
To Alabama Conference

A presentation of selected readings and music from the play "Nanyehi - beloved Woman of the Cherokee" was given at the National Trail of Tears Association Conference and Symposim in Guntersville, AL,
2009, at an evening reception.
The "Nanyehi" production team which is anticipted opening in Oklahoma in 2010 or 2011, has been presenting selections from the script and music from the score of this musical based on the life
of Nancy Ward, or Nanyehi, a War Woman and later Beloved Woman of the Cherokee people in the late 1700 and early 1800's.

The play will employee several Cherokee actors, stage crew and technicians.
Currently in the pre-production
phase, the co-playwright/composer
of the this musical, Becky Hobbs, and co-play-wright/director, Nick Sweet, are ready to take the script into workshop, and are currently in negotiations with Rogers State University (RSU) Theatre Department, Claremore, OK, to do the workshop there.

Click HERE for more information.

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The Color of Art _ The work of Cherokee artist and sisters, Carlene Wyly and Shirley Simms.

Art Right Now

On the Web at fivetribes.org - Five Tribes Museum, Muskogee, OK

Cherokee Art To Scotland:

If you are a Cheorkee artist and interested in your work being offered for sale in Scotland in 2010 contact us for more information at gwytutsi@yahoo.com. The quantiy of art to be taken is limited as is the size of the art. The Art To Scotland Project is in the planning stages, but anyone interested should let us know as soon as possible.

MASTERS ART SHOW, Nov. 7 to 30, Five Civilized Tribes Museum, Muskogee, OK

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Potter Artist Search

    The Oklahoma Institute for Ceramic Arts, Inc. is looking for Oklahoma ceramic / pottery artists. If you make pottery (full time, part time, or occasionally) please send information in for an Oklahoma Potters Directory to OICA, PO Box 303, Mounds OK 74047 or email PotteryMuseum@aol.com. They are also interested in known about past potters and pottery companies in Oklahoma.

HOMELAND

Every year the CAHC plans to return to North Carolina as a pilgrimage to the Homeland and to share Green Corn with our clans, friends, and families in or near Cherokee, NC.

The picture above is a reflection on our visit to the Kituah Mound and shows the corn field, cane, and valley around the Mound.

Mr. Walker Calhoun and his family are always generous with their food, friendship, fellowship and lives each year we return.  This trip is also a cultural exchange and celebration of the traditional lifeways we share with each other, and with our ancestors.  This is a time to reflect upon the lives we live and share, our responsibilities to a balance of not only our personal lives, but to each other and to the world collective; and, it is a new beginning with all the hopes and anticipation that we will forget the past, focus on the future and give the best we can to respect and honor each other, the world around us, the spirit of those who have passed from us.  We look forward to 2010.  We give thanks, and send prayers to our clans in NC and throughout the world.