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Article: Pow Wow celebrates Native American heritage
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- Charleston Gazette
- Article date:
- September 28, 2000
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The Beginning
The young woman stirred as the sun rose over the valley where
she, her husband, two small children and several others in her group
were camped beside the river. It was late summer and the morning was
cool and damp. Before leaving the shelter they had constructed
several days earlier, she adjusted the animal skins covering her
children as they slept. A short distance from the shelter a small
fire burned. Her husband had placed several small logs on the embers
and was busy working a black flint projectile point. The sounds from
the swamp to the south of the camp hailed the new day.
This scene took place nearly 9,000 years ago. The young woman,
her husband and their children were ...