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Article: JOHN BLACKFEATHER JEFFRIES FEATURED ARTIST AT N.C. MUSEUM OF HISTORY

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November 5, 2009
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RALEIGH, N.C., Nov. 2 -- The North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources' Arts Council issued the following news release:

When John Blackfeather Jeffries, a member of the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation, demonstrates how to make traditional American Indian weapons or discusses his displays of early hunting and fishing tools, he feels a special bond with his ancestors.

"To hold something like an arrowhead in my hand and know it belonged to my ancestors, it connects me to them," says the Hillsborough resident and former tribal chairman of the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation.

Jeffries will be November's Artist at Work at the N.C. Museum of History in Raleigh. Watch him craft ...

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