Mayan Words in Hitchiti-Creek Language Suggest Ancient Connection
The Hitchiti language, one of many languages spoken by Creek Indians, was spoken in Georgia and Florida during the Colonial Period by tribes including the Hitchiti, Chiaha, Oconee, Sawokli, Apalachicola and Miccosukee. Based on the number of place names derived from the Hitchiti language, scholars believe this …
Is there evidence that the Maya were in Georgia and Florida? If so, why were they there? Were they mining gold and shipping it back to Mexico? Does a gold artifact discovered in a Florida mound in the 1800s offer positive proof of this? Let’s look at the evidence and see what it suggests …
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This event is held every January in Osprey, Florida. Features dancers, vendors, and family fun.
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This event is held every December in Leesburg, Florida. Features dance competitions, arts & crafts vendors, food vendors and more.
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This event is held every March in Naples, Florida. The OLD FLORIDA FESTIVAL is designed to preserve and protect the local traditions and folkways that are rapidly disappearing from our daily lives, and to pass this important heritage to the next generation of citizens. The OLD FLORIDA FESTIVAL will be arranged on the Collier museum’s …
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This event is held every March in Fort Pierce, Florida. Features dance competitions, arts & crafts vendors, food vendors, featured entertainment and more.
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This event is held every March in New Port Richey, Florida. This festival offers eleven days of family fun and entertainment, along the banks of the beautiful Pithlachascotee River in downtown New Port Richey, Florida. This time-honored tradition allows visitors to witness a traditional Native American festival, float decorated watercraft in the boat parade, or …
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This powwow is held every March in Mount Dora, Florida. Features Traditional Native American Culture Including: Drumming, Dancing, Crafts, and Food.
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This event is held every February at the Indian County Fair Grounds in Vero Beach, Florida. Features Indian artists, ethnic food vendors, a teepee village, hoop dancers, eagle dancers, singers and flute players and some very talented drums.
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This event is held every fall and spring, November & April at Chambers Farm in Fort McCoy, Florida. Features dancing, singing, drumming, arts & crafts, food vendors and more.
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This event is held every November in Tampa, Florida at the Florida State Fairgrounds. Features Dance Contest – Over $100,000 in Prize Money
Drum Contest – $30,000 in Prize Money
Native American Bands and musical performances
Native American Food & Craft Vendors
Tribute to the men and women of the US Armend Forces
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This event is held every November in Ocala, Florida at Silver Springs. Members of tribes from North and South America will perform ancient ceremonial dances in traditional regalia, tell centuries-old stories and demonstrate arts and crafts. Other activities will include a Seminole hunting camp, geo dig, art contest, retail booths, canoe displays and more.
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This event is held every November at Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center State Park in White Springs, Florida. It features a Seminole Camp where you will view demonstrations of such Seminole crafts as patchwork sewing, bead work, doll making, basketry, wood carving, and more. There will also be Seminole cooking demonstrations and plenty of tasty …
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The North Bay Indian Village has its annual Veterans Day Pow-Wow in November. Enjoy stories, artifacts, crafts, demonstrators, singing, drumming, dancing, and much more. Location: North Bay Lower Muskogee Creek Indian Village, in Southport, Florida.
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This event is held every November at the Eglin Airforce Base in Niceville, Florida. Features dance competitions, arts & crafts competitions, food vendors and more.
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This is one of the largest events of the year in Florida and is held every November in Orlando, Florida. Features entertainment such as flute players, story tellers, living history demonstrations, and of course dancing, drumming and singing.
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This event is held every October in Dade City, Florida at the Withlacoochee River Park. Features art, dancing, story telling, and teaching.
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The city of Chattahoochee, Florida in association with Can’e Ti’kv & Nok’vs Mecco & Johshan present a festival of Native American arts & crafts at the Chattahoochee River Landing Park every October. Includes Native American drumming, inter-tribal dancing, arts & crafts, story telling, and living history village.
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This event is held every October and February on the Cox-Osceola Indian Reservation in Orange Springs, Florida. Features Family Oriented events including: Children’s Games and Native American Story Telling, Handmade Native American Craftwork, Traditional Native Dancing, Native Drumming, Native American Food, Vendors and more !
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This event is held every October in Dade City, Florida. Features vendors, Native American leather clothing and food, Painted Ponies, blankets, etc. Nonstop entertainment all weekend: flute players, singers, didg players, story tellers. Authentic Creek Indian village in the woods, trails and tower.
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The Perdido Bay Tribe Cultural Heritage Museum bills itself as, “A place of warmth and beauty. A place for learning and sharing. A place of welcoming. A place to exhibit the art of our heritage.” Includes a mobile museum called the Bear Museum which “Perdido Bay Tribe volunteers make available to schools, libraries, community …
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Just 30 minutes west of the Florida Turnpike, in the heart of the beautiful Florida Everglades, is the Miccosukee Indian Village. It provides valuable insight into the rich culture, lifestyle and history of the Tribe.
Observe Miccosukee Indians as they engage in the art of woodwork, beadwork, patchwork, basket weaving and doll making. View historical …
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This event is held every October in Live Oak, Florida. Features dance competitions, arts & crafts vendors, food vendors and various other exhibits including primitive housing (teepees, etc) and native wild animals (eagles, owls, hawks, panthers, etc).
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