Tent of Many Voices: 05150405T
good afternoon it's a pleasure to be here we came back to our homelands after over 200 years about 200 years ago or longer our K people live up north of here which is casc casasi and then we were moved down to St Charles from James St Charles we were moved to Springfield from Springfield we were moved to work in that area we had the biggest reservation land and now we shrunk it down to a 6x5 square miles and and we are here not to celebrate but to tell our story about what happened with L Park L CLK made their ways through the country you know by orders of the president and H they found out that restrict grounds for settlers to move into so we were moved further west and further west and to this day we are still really fighting hard for water rice we have to truck water 7 days a week 24 hours a day during summertime for our Tri to survive my name is na it's a name that means two rivers and we think that it may have come from the St Charles Area from the tribe Liv there and at this time we're going to have some songs by our singers we have a little dancer here that somehow missed the show this morning so he's going to we're going to sing a song for him he's going to draft in for you up here for oh you w h yeah woo our singers are going to sing one more song I'd like to introduce our singers we have here RTO late singers an Wy Mackie cover up good afternoon I wanted to introduce my grandson this afternoon we're AB sh all all through our lives these were our little brothers now his name is De his father Simo his mother his name weim chicken PL we're very proud of him he's he's been performing now he started walking and you guys are good really do that that's sign no rehearsal got my name is George Clon uh I'm going to say just a little bit to bless these guys and honor them in my language thank you very much wo thank you very much uh this uh concludes our part of the program is there any questions that anybody would ask of the kaboo we would like to thank you folks for coming in and and sharing your talents with us do we have a question one question back over here okay let me get the microphone to you what was the original Homeland range of the in this area up in Cass County it's about 2 days ride from here but nowadays it's only 1 hour thank you for your question let's give him another round of applause I have before everyone takes off I have one more uh short presentation I'd like to introduce Tom wonderly he is a part of the Illinois Luen par Vice Centennial commission and he has a special presentation for Amy is Amy still here yes she is okay there you go Amy has been just a horrific help uh as we put together the signature event uh we we really wanted to make a concerted effort to represent the Native American side to the story and uh we couldn't have done that without any please come up I have a speech I want to make sure is right besides helping me helping me learn how to pronounce the uh I'd like to say on behalf of the Illinois commission Dr Dale Chapman who's the chairman of that commission I'd like to present you with this blanket uh in honor to honor you and to express our appreciation for your outstanding help in presenting the Native American story during our signature P Centennial and this is the best part I understand I get to hug her I'm really not going to take up a whole lot of your time but I just want to say thank you to Tom wonderly um and um to Dale Chapman and to George Bing who working with us so posted for a real long period of time and it it takes a lot of work to bring tribes back to like this for some tribes it's just a real it's a it's a a joyful and yet a very Bittersweet homecoming for many tribes and it's not always easy and but we have um we have tribes coming back to places that they have been removed from hundreds of years ago and we're celebrating our survival and we're surv we're celebrating the fact that our culture is still exist and we have so much to share and our culture and our heritage is still intact it's still rich and we wouldn't be able to present any of our culture to any of you if you didn't have people working like this in the National Park Service and providing this venue and people like George and Tom and Dale Chapman working with us and putting forth such a tremendous effort to bring all of the Native American people back into this new CL Vice Centennial commemoration thank you so very thank you very much for the presentation our next program here in the tent of many voices will start at 3:00 come back as well there are other activities the Native American Heritage games next door our exhibit tent our other exhibits at the TP and the small field and the other events all around Festival grounds what
