We started home on Tuesday morning from northwestern Wisconsin in chilling rain and gusting winds. The wife and I had wrapped up our five-day stay on the Red Cliff Reservation, ‘way north, visiting family there, and were headed south, along Lake Superior on Wisconsin Hwy 13, following its numerous twists and dips through the heavily wooded country.
Slowing through the pretty lakeside tourist town of Bayfield (pop 475) that was in its rapidly deflating, wind down from their yearly AppleFest Week blowout, we recalled watching the parade on Sunday, when the family danced and drummed their way from beginning to end, four as part of Native Expressions Drum & Dance Troup, and one a stand-out drummer with the Bayfield High School marching band.
On Saturday, October 6th, they had held a Native dance and drum exhibition in front of Gruenke’s Inn & Restaurant when, with others from the Red Cliff, Bad River and other Native communities from Wisconsin and Minnesota, energetically educated the public about Native culture, as they’ve done for the past nine years. Among those are our grandson, eight years old, is an accomplished grass dancer; his mother, a fancy shawl and jingle dress dancer, teaches youth hoop dancing; and his father drums and sings.
Slowing through the pretty lakeside tourist town of Bayfield (pop 475) that was in its rapidly deflating, wind down from their yearly AppleFest Week blowout, we recalled watching the parade on Sunday, when the family danced and drummed their way from beginning to end, four as part of Native Expressions Drum & Dance Troup, and one a stand-out drummer with the Bayfield High School marching band.
On Saturday, October 6th, they had held a Native dance and drum exhibition in front of Gruenke’s Inn & Restaurant when, with others from the Red Cliff, Bad River and other Native communities from Wisconsin and Minnesota, energetically educated the public about Native culture, as they’ve done for the past nine years. Among those are our grandson, eight years old, is an accomplished grass dancer; his mother, a fancy shawl and jingle dress dancer, teaches youth hoop dancing; and his father drums and sings.
Who was the tall dancer? Tribal lore figure or tribute to women dancers?
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