Sequoyah Birthplace and Museum Fort Loudoun State Historic Park to Present the Great Island Festival September 10-11 VONORE, Tenn. – The Fort Loudoun State Historic Park and the Sequoyah Birthplace Museum are partnering for the Great Island Festival, slated for September 10-11, from 10:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. each day. The Great Island Festival is actually a series of concurrent events, designed to take visitors back in time to an 18th Century Trade Faire and a Cherokee Indian encampment. The Festival at the Sequoyah Birthplace Museum, visitors will have the opportunity to experience Native American food, arts and crafts demonstrations, music and dance. Special demonstrations and displays will include a look into the Cherokees’ military service including Civil War encampment and battle re-enactment featuring Thomas’ Legion and a Cherokee timeline encampment featuring time periods of the 1400s through the 1900s. Take a stroll back in time and visit the Civil War encampments. Meet Miss Cherokee. Special entertainment will be provided by the Warrior Dancers of Ani-Kituhwa, Diamond Go-Sti, a native educator and culturalist, Cherokee flutist and storyteller Eddie Bushyhead, a Cherokee Stickball demonstration game. David Haggard from the Tennessee’s Wildlife Birds of Prey program will be on Saturday. Sunday we will have the Cherokee Historical Association’s presentation on the Seven Clans. The new 1809 Cherokee log cabin-style Blacksmith shop will be open for demonstrations on both days. ...
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