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November 8: Join Us and Honor Strong Horse and William S. Yellow Robe, Jr at TIMM/ NS Annual Gala
Tomaquag Indian Memorial Museum and Nuweetooun School are very pleased to be honoring Traditional Sub-Chief Strong Horse (Narragansett) and renowned Native Playwright William S. Yellow Robe, Jr. (Assiniboine) at our annual gala event on Sunday, November 8, 12:30pm at the Quidnessett Country Club in North Kingstown, Rhode Island. We hope that you will join us for an afternoon of fun, honoring those who inspire us. You will also enjoy our live and silent auctions of Native arts, sports memorabilia and tickets, and other fun things. Feast on Baked Scrod or Chicken Marsala along with a delicious creamy Pumpkin Soup concocted just for our event. Best of all, every penny raised will be used to help keep our Native School and Museum open and working to preserve our culture!
Please click here to download the poster and registration form. If you can't attend but would like to sponsor one of our students or a person who would like to attend but can't, please consider making a contribution. You may also use this form to make a contribution to the Nuweetooun School Scholarship Fund. Thank you for your support, and we hope to see you on November 8th!
About Our Honorees:
Sub-Chief Strong Horse is an accomplished musician and dancer who has performed at powwows throughout the United States. He has given of himself throughout his life to Native people, serving as master of ceremonies for many years at the Narragansett Tribe's Great Swamp gathering and annual August Meeting. Strong Horse is also a former Board member of Tomaquag Museum, and the donor of a large collection of lithics as well as archival material and other assorted cultural items.
William S. Yellow Robe, Jr., is one of the foremost living Native American playwrights. He has written over 45 plays, which have been performed all over the country, including such venues as New York’s Public Theater, Trinity Repertory Theater, and the Honolulu Theater for Youth. Among his many awards are the First Nations Book Award for Drama and the New England Theater Foundation Award for Excellence. Yellow Robe published two collections of plays, Where the Pavement Ends (U of Oklahoma P 2000) and Grandchildren of the Buffalo Soldiers (UCLA 2009).
November 8: Join Us and Honor Strong Horse and William S. Yellow Robe, Jr at TIMM/ NS Annual GalaNovember 08, 2009
Tomaquag Indian Memorial Museum and Nuweetooun School are very pleased to be honoring Traditional Sub-Chief Strong Horse (Narragansett) and renowned Native Playwright William S. Yellow Robe, Jr. (Assiniboine) at our annual gala event on Sunday, November 8, 12:30pm at the Quidnessett Country Club in North Kingstown, Rhode Island. We hope that you will join us for an afternoon of fun, honoring those who inspire us. You will also enjoy our live and silent auctions of Native arts, sports memorabilia and tickets, and other fun things. Feast on Baked Scrod or Chicken Marsala along with a delicious creamy Pumpkin Soup concocted just for our event. Best of all, every penny raised will be used to help keep our Native School and Museum open and working to preserve our culture!Please click here to download the poster and registration form. If you can't attend but would like to sponsor one of our students or a person who would like to attend but can't, please consider making a contribution. You may also use this form to make a contribution to the Nuweetooun School Scholarship Fund. Thank you for your support, and we hope to see you on November 8th!
About Our Honorees:
Sub-Chief Strong Horse is an accomplished musician and dancer who has performed at powwows throughout the United States. He has given of himself throughout his life to Native people, serving as master of ceremonies for many years at the Narragansett Tribe's Great Swamp gathering and annual August Meeting. Strong Horse is also a former Board member of Tomaquag Museum, and the donor of a large collection of lithics as well as archival material and other assorted cultural items.
William S. Yellow Robe, Jr., is one of the foremost living Native American playwrights. He has written over 45 plays, which have been performed all over the country, including such venues as New York’s Public Theater, Trinity Repertory Theater, and the Honolulu Theater for Youth. Among his many awards are the First Nations Book Award for Drama and the New England Theater Foundation Award for Excellence. Yellow Robe published two collections of plays, Where the Pavement Ends (U of Oklahoma P 2000) and Grandchildren of the Buffalo Soldiers (UCLA 2009).