Be a Friend of the Native Circle
Help us reach our goal of $20,000!!!
Please send your contribution today!
We have a variety of ways for you to become a Friend of the Native Circle!
Download the Partner Opportunities form and become a Friend of the Native Circle today and help us keep this important Native American Cultural and Educational event free to the public! For more information and questions, please email or call 93-3820.
You can make a straight donation, pick a specific event to sponsor, or sponsor any portion of that events cost.
Eagle - $5000
You will receive partner recognition for an education program, free 10’X 10’ display area for your organization, an invitation to partner reception, partner recognition in Festival program and news releases. You will also receive a free 3/4 page ad in our program, as well as your logo displayed on the website and in all promotional materials.
Hawk - $2500
You will receive partner recognition for an education program, free 10’X 10’ display area for your organization, an invitation to partner reception, partner recognition in Festival program and news releases. You will also receive a free 1/2 page ad in our program, as well as your logo in all promotional materials.
Sun Symbol - $1,000
You will receive partner recognition for an education program, free 10’X 10’ display area for your organization, an invitation to partner reception, partner recognition in Festival program and news releases. You will also receive a free 1/4 page ad in our program.
Thunderbird - $500
You will receive an invitation to partner reception, partner recognition in Festival program and news releases. You will receive a free 1/8 page ad in our program, approximately the size of a business card.
Butterfly - $100
You will receive partner recognition in Festival program and news releases.
Bear Track $___________($50 minimum)
Partner recognition in Festival program.
This family-oriented, educational festival is a not-for-profit event and free to the public. That is only possible with the generous financial support from area corporations, merchants and people who volunteer their time and expertise to organize and conduct an event like this.
Your contribution will help ensure that the Native Circle continues to provide educational and family oriented events at no cost to the public!
We are very excited about continuing the Native Circle and have a wonderful festival planned this year! With the success of the past four years since the birth of the Native Circle and how many people have commented on how much they've enjoyed it, we really hope to be able to put together another 'smashingly successful' event this year as well.
May 29 & 30, 2010, from 12-5pm each day,
at Mexico Point Park, Mexico NY.
Our Amazing Line-up for the 2010 Festival
- Eagle & Hawk will share their “music with a message.”
- Ray "Co-Co" Stevenson will perform with Eagle & Hawk as well as giving workshops about the power of the traditional hand-drum to empower youth to get on the right path.
- Corn Bred will share their award winning music with festival goers.
- The Thunder Hawk Singers will share their award winning traditional Mi’kmaq songs with the public. Vannah’s signature song, Cherokee Amazing Grace, is a favorite of festival goers, and is the closing prayer of the Native Circle.
- Sacred Winds will again delight visitors with melodious flute playing and vocals.
- With activities that excite people of all ages, The Storytellers teach respect for animals, plants, and everything in nature, through their award-winning traditional Native American stories.
- Annawon Weeden will share stories, games, and activities from the Eastern Woodland Nations.
- Ms. Vannah’s Totem Spirits workshops is designed to provide an alternative way for youth and adults to learn to embrace who they are, empower their innate potential, and express what they have to offer the world in order to make it a better place.
- Vicky Shenandoah will bring her Interactive Iroquois Social Dance Troupe
- The Children’s activity tent will include educational activities such as painting “spirit rocks”, learning traditional Native American Beadwork, and making bracelets.
- Alf Jacques, from the Onondaga Nation, who would teach about the Native American origins of Lacrosse while involving children and adults in a demonstration Lacrosse game
- The Storytellers will also provide a tent where both youth and adults can get their picture taken in authentic Native dress as well as educating attendees on the significance of the clothing
- Richard Lacrosse and his wife will return to build a bigger wigwam encampment with two wigwams and demonstrations on how they were built. They will include children’s activities such as how to use birch bark for drawings.
- Continue to include Nancy Kaiser’s Wild Spring Edibles program which shows festival goers how to cook what nature provides. Her Nature Walk is a very popular event.
- The Salmon River International Sport and Fishing Museum will provide walk-ins displays of the museum’s memorabilia.
- Tracy Lindowski of Narrow-Gate Farms will have hands-on demonstration of the many stages wool takes to become a usable product. Children and adults alike would be able to ‘card wool’, use the spinning wheel and the inkle loom, a favorite of festival attendees this past year.