Culture Camp! November 17, 18 and 19 for youth ages 5th grade to 8th grade. Camp is limited to 15 to 20 participants and helpers and volunteers are needed. Call Dana Tiger, 918 822-7255 to participate or assist or email.
First Nations: Legacy is six months into a one-year First Nations grant for youth and elder projects. Special thanks to First Nations for sponsoring youth art, elder teaching and organizational development! Coming soon: Six Month Report online.
Agroforestry: With partner Cherokee Small Farm Project, Legacy has applied for a USDA Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Producer Grant to develop its agroforestry learning project at Park Hill, where young people can gather food in the woods and learn native plant stewardship like their ancestors. full story...
For Seven Generations: Legacy Receives Seventh Generation Funding Support for Food Sovereignty, Youth Art and Culture Camps, and Administrative Development full story...
Community Food Sovereignty Project is Funded: Legacy has been selected for a USDA Community Food Planning Project grant to develop traditional food network and is sponsoring a preponderance of this work thru the Mvskoke Food Sovereignty Initiative full story...
Legacy's Community Building Is A Dream Coming True! Legacy and Cherokee Nation are partnering to create the Park Hill Wellness Center where art classes, youth and elder camps and traditional arts education will flourish in a place-based educational setting. full story...
Tiger Gallery in Muskogee Oklahoma sponsors Legacy's work with office space, staffing, utilities, phone, gas, and more.
Copy Shop Mailbox and Bead Store and Able Office Supply in Tahlequah sponsors Legacy's accounting service, tax advice and more.
Fluffy's Compleat Boutique at Etsy sponsors fundraising, sales of promotional items, the raffle quilt and legal services.
Donate $10 to Legacy and you'll get 2 great things: A legacy membership and a raffle ticket. Some lucky winner will win this great quilt, and the drawing will be held at the end of 2006. You can send a check (include your email address) by mail to Legacy's address in the banner above. Or do it simply and quickly online using Paypal or a credit card, here.
"Elvis cooking sofkey" by Lisan Tiger Blair is just one of the great pieces of art in this intergenerational collection of art by the prolific Tiger family. Spanning 3 generations, this calendar is for sale for $20 and all proceeds go to the work of Legacy Cultural Learning Community. Mail a check to LCLC Calendar, 26467 Peaceful Valley Road, Park Hill, OK 74451 or order online (and see Elvis Cooking Sofkey) using Paypal here.
Website notes: This website is a work in progress. As much as anything else it is a place to dock the stuff on the desk. You may find it always in progress, because Legacy is a learning organization and its focus is on doing stuff. Explore the obscure corners and you may find cool stuff. Call Dana Tiger anytime, because she'd love to tell you about upcoming projects and ways to become involved! All Legacy projects are open to participants. And while our services tend to focus on Native Youth from at-risk backgrounds, we also feel that all youth are at-risk in this crazy world-- especially as to traditional Native American culture. We love to visit schools and to host classes at the gallery and at Park Hill. Soon, we'll have the kind of amenities that every teacher wants for a class trip (running water so children can wash their hands, and a real, proper flushing toilet!). We love to come to classrooms and help your students do art with a bona fide internationally-acclaimed artist. And if you can help to support this work, we'd be grateful. But knowing how schools are in a pinch these days, don't let it stop you if you can't, because from time to time, some angel donor will send us an unexpected gift. That's when we rush right out and buy brushes and paper, markers and paints. Because every child has an artist inside. And sometimes, you never know what will give a child a lifelong self-confidence. We believe in kids before they have a chance to doubt themselves, and it works! November 9, 2006
