The Indiana Dunes Visitor Center now tells not only the history of the land but also its original human inhabitants. After six years of work, the first phase of the Indiana Dunes Indigenous Cultural Trail was dedicated Wednesday.
Pokagon Band of Potawatomi citizen Skyler Alsup performs a Great Lakes style dance during a celebration of the completion of the first portion of the Indigenous Cultural Trail at the Indiana Dunes Visitor Center on Wednesday, September 27, 2023.
Fundraising is underway for future phases of the trail, including public art, a welcome shelter and programming as well as a one-mile trail that will extend through National Park Service land to explore the terrain. Jennifer Kanine, of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi, knows snapping turtles are among species “recovering and resurging and coming back.” She and others harvest wild rice. “We do run into snapping turtles with our feet sometimes,” Kanine said.Rebecca Richards, chairwoman of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi’s Tribal Council, put the Indiana Dunes in perspective.
Madalene Big Bear, a Potawatomi tribal member, said designs of traditional clothing worn by dancers at the dedication ceremony represent that trading history. Tiny bells, called cones, on skirts were made from the lids of tobacco tins, representing the traditional ceremonial and medicinal use of tobacco, she said.“Sept. 4, 1838, was the last day that the U.S. government rounded up our people and moved them out of this area,” Big Bear said.
It was illegal to sing those songs and even give traditional names to tribal members, Big Bear said, until the Religious Freedoms Act was passed in 1978, although tribes defied the prohibition and continued the practices anyway.The ceremony included a round dance, where anyone of any nation was invited to dance shoulder to shoulder. Many from the audience joined in.
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