54th Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair & Market Underway

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700 Indian Artisans

PHOENIX – Arizona's largest Indian market, the 54th Heard Museum Guild Fair and Market, is being held this weekend in downtown Phoenix.

More than 700 of the best American Indian artisans from throughout the United States are participating. American Indian art comes in many forms and it will be on display at the Indian market. The types of art include: jewelry, textiles, sculpture, poetry, paintings and carvings.

The Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair & Market is a world-acclaimed festival that draws nearly 20,000 visitors and more than 700 of the nation's most outstanding and successful American Indian artists.

The Fair is the perfect place for families wishing to enjoy a cultural and inexpensive weekend of music, entertainment and food. In addition to shopping, American Indian music and dance performances are held in the museum's outdoor amphitheater throughout the weekend. Food is plentiful at the Fair. Options include American Indian favorites like fry bread, posole stew, piki bread and Hopi stew as well as Mexican and American fare tempt the taste buds.

The Indian Fair & Market features American Indian and indigenous entertainers, some of whom have not visited Phoenix for many years.

Saturday

Main Stage

10:30 am
First Nations Warrior Society will present colors.
David Newark, Fair Chair, will give opening remarks.
Marshall Trimble will offer the invocation.
Heard Museum President Letitia Chambers will give remarks.

10:55 am
Anthony Wakeman, Gun Lake Band of Pottawatomi/Oglala Lakota, will offer a flute song to the east.

11 am
Laguna Pueblo Dancers will perform the traditional Buffalo Dance.

12 pm
Unihooyan Club will perform social dances.

12:55 pm
R. Carlos Nakai will offer a flute song to the south.

1 pm
R. Carlos Nakai, William Eaton and Will Clipman Trio.

1:55 pm
Aaron White will offer a flute song to the north.

2 pm
The Lonjose Dance Group of Zuni Pueblo will perform social dances.

2:55 pm
Southern Paiute Mountain Sheep Dancers will perform social dances.

3:35 pm
Tony and Kevin Duncan will perform "Dances of a Painted Warrior."

4:30 pm
Tony Duncan will offer a flute song to the west.

4:35 pm
Retire Colors.

Sunday

10:30 am
First Nations Warrior Society will present colors.
David Newark, Fair Chair, will give opening remarks.
Heard Museum President Letitia Chambers will give remarks.
Debra Drye, Hopi/Paiute and
Debra Utacia Krol, Xolon Salinan Tribe, will offer the invocation.

10:55 am
Anthony Wakeman, Gunlake Band of Pottawatomi/Oglala Lakota, will offer a flute song to the east.

11 am
Laguna Pueblo Dancers will perform the traditional Buffalo Dance.

12 pm
Unihooyan Club will perform social dances.

12:55 pm
R. Carlos Nakai will offer a flute song to the south.

1 pm
R. Carlos Nakai, William Eaton and Will Clipman Trio.

1:55 pm
Aaron White will offer a flute song to the north.

2 pm
The Lonjose Dance Group of Zuni Pueblo will perform social dances.

2:55 pm
Southern Paiute Mountain Sheep Dancers will perform social dances.

3:35 pm
Tony and Kevin Duncan will perform "Dances of a Painted Warrior."

4:30 pm
Tony Duncan will offer a flute song to the west.

4:35 pm
Retire Colors

posted March 3, 2012 1:30 pm est