- Date
- 2008-07
- Kind
- Celebration
- Where
- Beaver Island Community Center building
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- anishinaabe-odawacommunityperformanceheritage
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
During the Community Center opening week, PABI hosted a program honoring Beaver Island’s Native American first communities. The July 2008 report names drumming, hoop dancing, fiddle and flute performances, Tom Peters’s remarks, and help from the Grand Traverse and Little Traverse Bay Bands.
Evidence limits
This record describes the published program report and does not generalize from it to institutional or tribal participation beyond the named event.
Sources
- Beaver Beacon, July 2008, "Celebrating the Island's First Community".Reports a PABI opening-week program with Spirit Lake drummers, Raymond Shenoskey's hoop dancing, Ruby John and Warren Petoskey, Tom Peters, and participation by the Grand Traverse and Little Traverse Bay Bands. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2008-07_Beaver-Beacon
- The held issue scan confirms the program report.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2008-07_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Community Center opening honors Beaver Island's first communities, 2008”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-community-first-inhabitants-celebration-2008/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, July 2008, "Celebrating the Island's First Community". (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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