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Greetings R.E.D. Community,

We are happy to announce our spring event:

Spring Benefit for Grandma Aggie and the 13 Indigenous Grandmothers
March 31, 2012
4 - 11 p.m.
Bellview Grange in Ashland
We will be serving dinner and showing the film about the Grandmothers~
"For The Next 7 Generations"
Speakers and Music will follow the film

(All details are on the attached poster)

Please join us for a day of gathering and storytelling. We will host storytellers, music and a potluck feast at 4:30 p.m.. More information forthcoming~

Noon to 4:30 p.m. ~ Storytelling
4:30 to 6 p.m. ~ Feast (potluck please!)
6:30 ~ 8 p.m. ~ Storytelling

Event is FREE to the community, and it is a drug and alcohol free gathering.

Please join us for a meeting to help kick-off organization for upcoming Storytelling Conference in December. We have many tasks to sign up for and NEED helping hands to make the Conference happen. If you can't make the meeting, please call the number listed here and we can sign you up for something. Thank you!

Join us for a potluck harvest Social--bring what you can out of your gardens, if you have grown one, and enjoy getting together once again after a nice long summer 'break' from the routine. We have enjoyed having the summer to focus on travel, family, growing food and Ceremony, though we have MISSED our community. So please join us for a harvest feast!

See flier attached please for details!

Please join the women's community of R.E.D. for a crafting circle and get-together before the monthly Social.

Anyone is welcomed to attend a meeting and lend a hand or an idea!

Will be working on:

Native Games coming up March 19
Community Garden project coming up in May
Elder~Youth Conference coming up June 14-17

We hold meetings every two weeks, approximately, though after the Native Games Tournament on March 19, we will take a few weeks "off" from the bi-monthly meetings and resume again early in April.

R.E.D. is hosting a Women's Circle, prior to the R.E.D. Social that same day/evening. We intend to talk about the direction and intention in forming a Women's Circle, what we can do to support each other, ourselves and our community, how we can work with Red Earth Descendants to create a strong, united group of women! Since this is scheduled to begin an hour before the Social, we need to start on time (please arrive by 3:45 p.m. so we can begin promptly at 4) and end on time to greet the Social arrivals.

Whistling Elk Drum will once again make the long journey up to northeast Washington, to the Colville Reservation, to attend the Nespelem New Year's Pow Wow. The Drum is going to support relations made with friends and family there, to represent our community in a good way, and to sing for the People.

Roy Hayes Jr/ Loo'ting coom coom seen is a member of the Nimi'ipuu People (Nez Pierce) out of Lapwai,Idaho .Having grown up with the Wasit (7 Drum ) Tradition of the LongHouse, he is the one of the Keepers of this NorthWest Coast prayer ceremony. He is the great great grandson of the well known Leader/Teacher Chief Joseph, spending much of his childhood with his Grandparents as a fisherman earning him the name the “Blue Heron/the Fisherman” (Loo'ting coom coom seen).