If you want to journey back in time, follow the beat of the drums this weekend as Native Americans trace the rhythms of their ancestry at Long Hunter State Park, where more than 50 tribes from throughout America and Canada will gather.
Held on ceremonial sacred grounds of Long Hunter Park, located at 2010 Hobson Pike between Interstates 24 and 40, this marks the 32nd annual Native American Indian Associations’ Fall Pow Wow.
At last year’s Pow Wow, one Native American musician described the presence of Geronimo as “America’s last free Indian.”
“Geronimo is as free as the wind,” musician Arvel Bird said as the wind rustled nearby gold-tinted tree leaves on park land that formerly served as hunting grounds for Tennessee’s Cherokee Nation.
“I sing about the man the day before he decided to surrender his freedom,” Bird said. “His spirit lives here among us.”...Continue reading...
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