Promotional Video for INDIAN VILLAGE CAMP: This is a four day wilderness camp program focusing on tribal culture and natural living skills, using the Peacemaking talking circle throughout. Participants cook their own food as a group over an open fire in the communal longhouse. They haul firewood and bring water as a team. They stay in bent sapling wigwams covered with canvas tarp for four days. Camps usually start at 12 noon on a Thursday and end at 12 noon on a Sunday. This program is sponsored by the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians Tribal Court, Peacemaking/Probation Department. Trained adult staff are working all day and all night to keep programs moving and ensure safety. This program began operation in 2009 and has offered four camps per season. Each camp is four days long. SOME OF OUR PROJECTS INCLUDE: Making Hand Drums, Traditional Styled Lodge Building, Dream Catchers, Rattles, Necklaces and Jewelry, Herbal Salve and Plant Picking, Beadwork, Traditional Pottery, Personal Bundles, Cooking Frybread, Hammering Copper Bowls, Carved Walking Sticks, Carving Wooden Spoons, Building Wilderness Shelters, Throwing the AtlAtl, Making Spirit Houses, Spruce Root Digging, Leather Crafts (medicine pouches or bags), Orienteering Navigation with and without Compasses, Making Sassafras and Cedar Tea, Processing Nutmilk, Maple Syrup Sugar, Making Birch Containers, Birch Winter Bark Scraping, Cedar Bark Containers, Bow Drill Firemaking, Making a Clay Oven, Deer Hide Scraping/Brain Tanning, Natural Twisted Cordage, Traps and Snares, Carved River Stone, Snowsnakes, Drum Circle/Music Jam, Barred Owl Calling, Night Vision Teachings, Fire Safety and Survival Fires, Emergency Preparedness, Star Constellations, Hunting and Fishing Seminar, Traditional Foods, Plant Identification, Nature Walks, Tracking and Animal Calls, Bird Language, Elders Teaching Circle, Forest Service Job Opportunities, Mini-Pow-Wow and Drum presentation, First Aid and CPR Certification, Animal Tai Chi, Eco-Presentations from Natural Resources, Welcoming Ceremonies from Various Volunteers, Peacemaking Talking Circles, Group Games. Culture Presentations: Clan Teachings, Water Ceremony Teachings, Naming Ceremony Teachings, Fasting Teachings, Women's Teachings, Men's Teachings, Medicine Wheel Teachings, Four Sacred Medicines, Storytelling and Oral Traditions, Sweat Lodge Talk, Dance Regalia Education, Anishinaabe Language. (ELIGIBILITY: Youth, 12-17, male or female, tribal members, descendants, of LRBOI or other tribes, non-members by special circumstance approval such as from mixed homes) For more information contact the LRBOI switchboard at 1-231-723-8288 (hit zero for operator) or call the Peacemaking Department directly at 1-231-398-2240 to reach Austen Brauker, and 1-231-398-2239 to reach Peacemaking Supervisor Patrick D. Wilson. Email contacts are abrauker@lrboi.com or pwilson@lrboi.com.

• published: 14 Jan 2014
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