New Family Drum Website!!!!

www.FamilyDrum.com

Here is the newest website I designed for the local Drum Group!!!

Happy Turkey Day

Happy Turkey Day...

Hope everyone is hanging on.  I know we are ALL in Distress these days.  Personally I despise this time of year and wish that tomorrow would be January first.  My entire Blood Family has forsaken one another, I only have one younger brother that keeps in touch with me.  I have tried and tried over the years at this time to contact and forgive and forget or perhaps bring back together - To NO avail. 

My Tiyospaye* is priority now, they have been there for us numerous times, and we have been there for them.  So on this day of Thanks that I give for all the Soldiers that fight for our Freedom; for all the Firefighters, Police and EMT's that protect our lives here at home; for all the Ancestors that come before us that have paved the way of the walk.  I also Thank these people that I am proud to consider my real Family.  You know who you are, and you have NO ego to be named, you need NO status or Title, I Love You ALL.

Much Love and many Prayers,

~wrulf

*Tiyospaye is an extended family, Indigenous People united by choice rather than by blood or colonial delineation.

Thank you Lance Redhawk!

Just a BIG THANKS to Lance Redhawk for fitting us into his pow wow in King, North Carolina!  If anyone is near there, this is going to be a really good Pow Wow, I haven't stopped hearing about it since we got to North Carolina in June.  Also, We haven't stopped bugging Lance about getting into it for about as long. 

So we have a week to make more product and get ready for pow wow the weekend of the 15th.  Check the calendar for details, also check my dot com for the google map to the pow wow grounds.

Frank Liske Park Pow Wow ~ Concord, NC

Frank Liske Park Pow Wow ~ Concord, NC

The pow wow was really great!  We had a wikid storm run through in between the afternoon session and evening session.  Creator cleansed us of all the bad stuff and cooled us down, then we pow wowed into the night!!!  Just uploaded the pictures, might take a day or so to upload the videos.  Still recovering from the pow wow hangover LOL.  It is soooo great to be this far away and see familiar faces, Jeremy Lang and family was there this weekend. 

Well, we have a week off to make some product and restock a bit, and I beleive we will be doing the King, NC pow wow.  Hope everyone is well.

Much Love and many prayers,

wrulf

From the Pow Wow Trail

Greetings,

We are still in Alabama, going to Oxford in1 week for the next pow wow.  Please check out the pictures and video from the Napier Field Pow Wow.  This was an awesome first time pow wow, we will be back next year! 

Also got invited to do this pow wow at the end of June:

  June 28 - 29, 2008 ~ 4th Annual Eastern Native American

"WE are all RELATED" Charity Pow Wow

Whippoorwill Hollow Organic Farm ~ Walnut Grove, GA

(Between Conyers and Monroe on Hwy 138)

Profits will go to support Native Americans with Diabetes and support OUR Elders - Demonstrators, Craft and Food Vendors, Educational Children's Games and activities, Story Tellers and Much More!  Admission $10 per Vehicle - Bring the whole Family!! Gates open 10am - 6pm Saturday Grand Entry at 12 noon - Sunday 10am - 5pm Grand Entry at 1pm - Primitive Camping available for tents and campers for dancers and vendors only - Flag retirement ceremony & Trade Blanket on Saturday night - Contact: Whippoorwill Hollow Farms whippoorwillholf@bellsouth.net 678-625-3272 Andy Byrd - 770-601-0109 Hilda Byrd - NO Politics, NO Weapons, NO Drugs, and NO Alcohol !  Vendors by invitation only - Directions: From Atlanta, take I-20 east to exit #82 (Conyers/Hwy 138). Take a left onto Hwy 138 and go 9 miles to Walnut Grove (Walton County). Continue through the traffic light - our farm is 1 mile on the left.

 

There is a gathering in July which we will also attend that is put on by a good friend of ours Squirrel.  Here is the info for that one:

July 7 - 14, 2008 ~ A Journey of the Seventh Fire: A Continuation

1232 Indian Trail ~ Blackshear, GA 31516

Presented by Tradin' Tyme at the Squirrel's Den - To Honor the Creator, To honor the influence of the Positive Energies of the Universe and to Honor the Guidance of the spirits of the Good Ancestors.

HOW: Meditation and Contemplation.  A loose schedule of events will be planned.  Intertribal and Stomp Dance are definitely being considered.  The Gathering will begin at 7am on 07/07/08 and will continue for 7 days to 07/14/08 on 7 acres of land.

It will begin by 7 fires lit by 7 fire keepers and 7 fire bearers by live embers carried in Alabama Mussel Shells to 7 Camps.  When the fires are all lit, 7 Conch Shells will be sounded and the festivities will begin!

There will be Trade Blanket Daily and NO Vending - The FEED will be Communal Stone Soup- The specialty of the House!!

**NOTE: This event is by Invitation Only and NOT Open to the public ** Please call me if you are interested in attending or if you wish to help make this gathering a success.  Squirrel 912-449-3335 squirrelysden@yahoo.com Very Little electricity - However there are Hot and Cold Showers and  Restrooms on the grounds.

Disclaimers and Limitation of Liability:  Your participation in this private event is at your sole and exclusive risk.  The host of this event may refuse admittance, or ask you to leave the event at any time for any reason.  You agree and understand that injuries and damages can occur by natural causes or by the acts of other persons or third parties, either as a result of negligence or because of other reasons and that you are personally responsible for all costs and/or risks associated with this activity.  You agree and understand and intend that this assumption of risk and release is binding upon you and includes any minors accompanying you at this event.

Thundering Spirit Family Pow Wow

Well here we are a week away! Hope to see you all out there at the pow wow. I will be on the grounds from this wednesday through the following monday. So there will not be anymore online activity until after that. Hope everyone is well