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The other events calendar is listed below the Native American Heritage Days Article NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE DAYS Historic Lyme Village On
Rt. 4 between Rt. 113 & Rt. 20 – 2 mi. east of Bellevue, OH – 4 mi.
south of exit 110 of OH Turnpike Sat., May 23, 2009 - 10-5
& Sun., May 24, 2009 10-5 Adults: $5.00 – Children
4-12 - $3.00 – Children 3 and
under - Free More information – (419)
668-8693 A
variety of tribes will be represented again this year at our Native American
event. Those of the Eastern Woodland tribes: Shawnee, Wyandot, Cherokee,
Choctaw, Delaware, and Lenni Lenapi. The Western tribes: Lakota, Sioux,
Blackfoot, and Hopi. There will be drumming, singing, dancing, flute playing and
story telling. The
American Revolution greatly affected the Eastern Indians.
Indians were tied to the trade networks of Western Europe.
The Eastern Indians could not survive without trade goods.
They traded for cloth, guns and ammunition, and alcohol, but wanted metal
kettles, frying pans, pewter plates and cups, combs, mirrors, etc.
In exchange, they taught Europeans how to plant corn, squash, and
pumpkins, to prepare animal skins for clothing, and to build canoes.
After the Great Awakening of the 1730s and 1740s missionaries entered
Indian country and competed for souls, causing factions among the tribes.
Indians donned European clothing but maintained traditional hairstyles,
slit ears and facial tattoos. Basket
making and woodcarving were stimulated by European demand. European
rum demoralized and took many Indian lives.
Choctaw and Cherokee chiefs were generally powerless to halt social chaos
caused by drunkenness and the aggressive behavior it caused in the warriors. Intermarriage
between Europeans and Indians produced “new peoples” of mixed ancestry and
caused racial conflicts. Trade
jargons emerged. Indians adopted
Spanish, English, Gaelic, Dutch, French, and African words.
Europeans incorporated Algonquin, Iroquoian, and Muskalogeon.
For
thousands of Indians, the “new world” became a graveyard; diseases such as
smallpox, plague, measles, flu, pneumonia, tuberculosis, diphtheria, yellow
fever killed them at unbelievable rates. Indians
were caught up in wars of empire. The
Americans and the British taught them that they could be bought and sold, and
both countries sought their allegiance. Indians
played the Americans, the British, the Spanish and the French against each other
to insure their neutrality and survival, while keeping up the flow of trade
goods. Europeans adopted Indian
clothes, canoes, some foods and some hunting and fishing practices. Despite
the adoption of commercial hunting and the addition of fruit, potatoes, cattle,
pigs and domestic ducks and chickens to their diet, the sacred “three
sisters” of the Iroquois – corn, beans and squash – remained the staff of
life for many woodland Indians. Trader
James Adair said corn was an Indian people’s “chief produce and main
dependence.” Corn was also at the
core of many tribes’ spiritual well-being:
Cherokees recalled the mythical female origins of their agriculture in
the story of Selu, a woman whose name means “corn.”
Annual Green Corn Ceremonies insured ritual purification of the
community. Like the buffalo in the
Plains Indian culture and economy, corn for eastern woodland Indians was the
basis of life and prosperity. It
was also an Achilles’ heel, providing enemy armies with a target that could be
burned time and time again with devastating effect. The
language of American Indians has provided us with a rich legacy in our current
vocabulary: moose, raccoon, skunk, opossum, squaw, wigwam, totem, papoose,
moccasin, and tomahawk. Rivers:
Susquehanna, Potomac, Maumee,
Cuyahoga, Tuscarawas, Monongahela, Delaware, Olantangy, and
Miami. Ohio
Counties: Seneca, Huron, Ottawa,
Wyandot, Sandusky, Muskingum, & Erie. Ohio
Towns: Wapakoneta, Logan, Mingo, Osceola, Tymochtee, Chillicothe,
Chippewa–On–The-Lake, and
Shawnee. May we come to appreciate more and
more the rich heritage of the Native Indians, our first Americans. --
Most of these excerpts were taken from the book The American Revolution
in Indian Country, written
by Colin G. Calloway. The remainder
came from Melvin Braggs’s The
Adventure of English.
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2009 Calendar & Event Schedule Hours the village is open
GUIDED
VILLAGE TOURS June, July & August Tuesday - Saturday ..........
11:00 am - 4:00 pm Sunday 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm September & October Sundays 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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$1.00/person
School and group tours, weddings, receptions, meetings & picnics in the Mansion, Log Church, Cafe and Shelter by appointment year round. Call or write to:
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