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CHEROKEE, N.C. – Some traditions just get better with time. Cherokee’s annual July Powwow is no exception. After 30-plus years of celebratory dance, song, and drumming, this year’s July powwow will explode in a three-day festival full of world-champion dancers at the Cherokee Indian Fair Grounds July 4–6.
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This year the annual gathering of tribes from throughout the Americas takes its rightful place as the finest showcase of non-competitive, native dance, art, song, and culture in the southeast. On July 17–19, tribes from across the country will descend on Cherokee, NC, for the celebratory Festival of Native Peoples. The event honors the collected history, culture, tradition, and wisdom of the indigenous people of the Americas.
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North Carolina is known as the birth place of outdoor drama – a dramatic form of storytelling that often depicts historical events with music, dance, elaborate costume and special effects . It seems natural then, that Cherokee, NC is home to the third longest running outdoor drama in the nation. With its scenic beauty, historical significance and rustic mountain backdrop, there’s no better place to witness the epic story of the Cherokee Indians then at the Mountainside Theatre.
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A Cherokee potter perpetuates the longest continuing pottery tradition of any tribe in the United States on their original homeland.
The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians has the longest continuing pottery tradition of any tribe in the United States on their original homeland. Nearly 2,000 years ago, Cherokee potters began using carved wooden paddles and sharp objects to stamp their pottery with intricate crosshatch, spiral and other designs.
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