Final Tour, 2006 North American Indian Exposition

One of the neat things about the Indian Exposition is that venders and crafters can sell their home made Indian Cultural Items. There are also dances and competitions. People drive up and spend the nights in tents and even tipis. These tipis are set up on the field in the horse shoe.

These are some of the crafts. I have been working with crafters for years. They spend a lot of time on their works. There are so many crafters in the Anadarko, Oklahoma that they could fill up the Exhibit Center.

Here are some more crafts. I had one lady tell me not to take pictures of hers because she was afraid someone would steal her "designs." Sadly, many of our crafters have no idea about the Internet and blogs. I even told here that this was on an educational blog, but these are not hers. Quick, can you see a design there that you could steal. No, of course not, but they are beautiful.

This is Bruce Ceasar Silver Works. I have worked with the father. This is one of the sons, and obviously, he is following in his own dad's footsteps. He certainly didn't mind me taking his picture. Believe me, they do expensive work.



You can see some of their elaborate work on the right. Sorry about the flash, but their techniques and finished products are absolutely amazing. All designs have American Indian cultural significance.

Notice these crafts. You can tell the crafters appreciate the pictures and their work.


If you look closely, you will see some Indiand Flutes at the bottom of the picture. There are two of them. I wouldn't mind learning to play them.

To get my Elementary Certification, I had to learn how to play the recorder. I still have one of them around here.

But look closely at other items they have here. I spent a lot of time looking at these.


Next year Iris will get a dress like this one. It is called a "BuckSkin" and will cost a lot of money to make. A friend of mine, Theresa Carter, makes these and they are beautiful.

Certainly these are arts. But Indian arts also includes paintings so I took some pictures of some of them. As you can tell, they have have a painting contest and award winners.




I will be the first to admit that I am absolutely worthless at art. I couldn't begin to draw something like that. Darrin was a good artist and still is. But his art has changed toward editing video. Hmm, I didn't check out Outdoor Oklahoma, this week.


Our school doesn't start until later on, so our high school art classes did not enter any art. But Riverside Indian School is operating, because I saw their bus in the parade. There students are active in the arts.

Remember? Warm Springs Apache. This is what Iris's step-grandpa and his son is into. Iris also has an uncle that went to art school, though, I doubt that he did this.

Believe me, I would be an artist if I could do something like this. Congratulations to the grand prize winner. Some of the art may have already been taken home. Now, for the tipis that are always put on show by the National Indian Hall of Fame.







Yep, that is Seth standing by that tipi. Do you know any children who do not like tipis.

Hope you have enjoyed this tour of this year's Indian Exposition. Questions? I'll try to answer them. Thanks for looking.

(c) Dale Hill (2006)