AmericanPressTravelNews.com-Cookville, TN. Oct. 29th,-Bob and Barb, yes, we are on the road again. This time we are heading for the Cumberland Plateau 15th Annual American Indian Pow Wow in Cookville, TN. 

We love American Indian programs and culture. It’s the “real” America in so many ways. Hand made knives, buckskin clothes, earth colors.

Lots of foods from Indigenous American Indian booths, all kinds of crafts, dances and music with plenty of drum-beats. Well, we weren’t disappointed. The host drum was by Southern Echo and the Emcee was Bert (Iron Turtle) Cox. There was flute playing, a childrens candy rush to the beat of the drums, intertribal dances, Sisters American Indians food, story telling, and lots of teaching and showing the cultures in their art and crafts. Veterans and all service members in both home and military, firefighters (I am a retired 18-years Firefighter, so I was included in the circle of honor dancing) Law Enforcement, EMT’s,  and teachers. A local non-profit Indigenous Intertribal Corp. hosted the Pow Wow. Barb and I had a very fine time and were honored to be amongst America’s first peoples in history.