E-News Flash Vol 4 June 2014
  Save the Date: Only 5 weeks left until our 2014 American Indian Festival 
Calling all Volunteers
4 hour shift Volunteer positions are now available for our 4th Annual American Indian Festival to be held July 12th and 13th at Century II.  Please contact Crystal at 350-3345 or by email at cbachicha@wichita.gov to find out more about this event and how you can help at the festival, and click here for a Volunteer Application. 
 

  
  
We'll see you at the 2014 American Indian Festival! 
  
Share Our Culture
Shawls: Powwow Series Part 5   
  
Wednesday, June 11
7:00 PM-9:00 PM 
 Beginning Clay Buffalo Class 
  
   Saturday, June 14
10:00 AM-12:00 PM
 
Come make your very own unique piece of American Indian Art in this one of a kind Beginning Clay Buffalo Class taught by Sheila Bazil. The enrollment fee for this class is $10.00 for MAAIC Members and $20.00 for the General Public. Click here for a registration form.  
 Beginning Shawl Making Class 
  
   Saturday, June 14
1:00 PM-3:00 PM
 
Whether it is your very first shawl, or completing an unfinished one, you can do it all in this class taught by local artist and elder, Sandra Hulsey. Enrollment to this class is open to MAAIC Members and the General Public, but limited to the first 12 people to sign up. This class is free for MAAIC Members and $20.00 for the General Public. Click here for a registration form.  
 Beginning Finger Woven Belt Class 
  
   Saturday, June 21
10:00 AM-12:00 PM
   
Learn how to make a finger woven belt in this class taught by local artist, Betty McGarigle. Admission fees are $10.00 for MAAIC Members and $20.00 for the General Public. Click here for a registraion form.
  
 Lecture: The American Indian Way of Life: Living off the Land and Using Mother Nature's Gifts to Survive
  
   Saturday, June 21
12:00 PM-2:00 PM
    
Before grocery stores and shopping malls, people depended on the land to satisfy their daily needs. Connecting to nature remains an important part of American Indian history and culture, and you can learn more about that very connection in this free lecture given by Jason Felihkatubbe.
Share Our Culture
Dances: Powwow Series Part 6    
  
Wednesday, June 25
7:00 PM-9:00 PM 
 MAAIC Family Day
  
Saturday, June 28
10:00 AM
  
     
Beginning at 10:00 AM, Join us in our Buffalo Hall for another showing of the full length 90 minute film, Indians in Aviation. Then visit our museum for 1/2 price admissions all day! 
  
Mid-America All-Indian Center  is dedicated to educating people about and preserving the heritage of the American Indian.
  
It is located at the confluence of the Little & Big Arkansas Rivers.
  
Tuesday - Saturday 10AM to 4PM
  
Phone: 316-350-3340
  
  
  
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