OPENING EXHIBIT
April 1, 2008 through December 31, 2008
"Baseball’s League of Nations:
A Tribute to Native American Baseball Players"
April 5th 3-6pm Gallery Opening and Benefit Party
May
10th ,
Longhouse Lecture – Mike Tarbell, Mohawk, Turtle Clan
- "Baseball
in Iroquois Communities", 1-4PM
June 21-22, “Beginning of the
Blueberry Moon” - Iroquois Social Dance Weekend.
Haudenosaunee
Dancers from Onondaga led by
Sherri Waterman Hopper. Talk
by Michael Taylor: “Native
American Mascot Issues: Local, Regional, and National Discourses of
Representation”
*July
5-6, Iroquois Social Dance Weekend – Onondaga Dancers with Chris Thomas
*
July 12-13, All-Star Weekend featuring
Tyendinaga Mohawk Dancers
with Alan Brant, Theater
Project of Schoharie Co., multi-cultural and local singers all with the
emphasis to celebrate baseball.
U.S.P.O. presents a special Baseball Pictorial Cancellation Stamp. Games for
kids of all ages. Talk by Ed Rice author of: “BASEBALL'S
FIRST INDIAN, Louis Sockalexis: Penobscot Legend, Cleveland Indian”
* August 9-10, Iroquois Social Dance
Weekend – Invited dancers: Allegany River Indian Dancers led by Bill Crouse
* August 24th,
Longhouse Lecture 1-4pm –
Robert Spiegelman -
“ New York’s Missing Link: The
Sullivan-Clinton Campaign, Then and Now”;
& Sally Roesch Wagner – “The
Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) Influence on Women’s Rights”
*
August 30 - Sept.1st,
27th Annual Festival of Iroquois Arts featuring Jim Sky Dancers
from Six Nations; large Iroquois Art Market; archeology and wild life
exhibits; children’s activities; native food and presentations.
*
September 21st,
Longhouse Lecture 1-4PM
Invited Speaker: Dr.
William Simons –
"Where Have You Gone Joe DiMaggio," Jackie Robinson, and Hank Greenberg:
Ethnic Heroes in Baseball”
*
October 5th,
Longhouse Lecture 1-4PM
Invited Speaker: Dr.
Laurence Hauptman -
“Native Americans in Baseball”
November 9th,
Veterans Day Presentations, 1-4PM
November 15th, Gala
Fall Benefit Party Celebrating Native Americans in Baseball.
Special reading and book signing by Choctaw
author LeAnne Howe from her book “Miko Kings: An Indian Baseball Story”
* These events are
made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts,
a state agency, and the New York Council for the
Humanities.
Additional contributions come from members and friends of the
Iroquois Indian Museum.
|