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Community Center opening honors Beaver Island's first communities, 2008

Also Celebrating the Island's First Community 2008

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TypeEvent
Date2008-07
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
On this page
Event
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

  1. 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
  2. The held issue scan confirms the program report.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2008-07_Beaver-Beacon

Added 5 August 2026. Recent changes

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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