A Celebration of Eastern Woodland Native Peoples

580 Washington Road,Rye NH 03870

18 November, 2021

Description

Ed Bullock and Ken Hamilton present a primer on Native American song, dance, culture, stories, and history This program will include both presenters dressed in traditional Native American Eastern Woodlands regalia. The goal of this presentation will be to begin the conversation and start the relationship with the town of Rye in preparation of a larger event in the Spring of 2023. Presenter bios Ed and Ken have 50 years of experience each in singing, dancing and making traditional regalia particularly associated with the Eastern Woodlands people of New England. They have traveled extensively throughout North America attending and organizing Pow Wows, singing on various Northern Plains drum groups, vending and advising groups and organizations on a wide variety of Native American subjects. They have coordinated hundreds of school presentations in the New England area. Ed's family has owned and operated The Wandering Bull since 1969, and now The Little Bull in York Beach, Maine, since 1988. Ed started doing presentations with his Father Whirling Thunder in the early 1970’s. Ken is one of the foremost presenters on early New England Native history, has been a featured presenter at Fort Ticonderoga and French and Indian War re-enactments, and on screen for many films and documentaries on Native topics for over 40 years. Ken is a published author on historic French trade knives and trade axes (6 different articles), and blacksmith/craftsman of researched 17th and 18th cent. Native and European trade goods reproductions and colonial era material culture researcher.