Day of a 1,000 Drums: Tacoma

05/30/2010 - 12:00
America/Los Angeles

Day of a 1000 Drums
Rally for the Restoration of Ancestral Names

John Trudell - PuraFe of Ulalli - Star Nayea - Charlie Hill
Quilleute Tribal Mask Dancers - Delbert Miller - Elaine Miles

Portland Ave Park, Tacoma, WA
Sunday, May 30 from 12am to 6pm

Check out the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zn3qo_pNwZo

 

Indian Tribes of the four directions and other indigenous organizations will be gathering for a day of celebration at the Day of a Thousand Drums to honor their culture, heritage and traditions and pay their respects to their ancestors who were first contacted and their descendants. The day will be filled with keynote, celebrity, spiritual, and elder speakers, accompanied by musical appearances of many award winning native recording artists. As well, the event will be formatted potlatch style, with special attention given to the elders and childrens well being and care.
At the root of the reason’s at to why it’s felt the name should be restored, is to bring forth a healing, a healing to millennia of generations of American Indians exterminated, removed and forced to assimilate to the dominate societies way of life.