Unique traditional foods
featuring: wildrice, cholla bud salad, prickly pear tea, Saguro cactus syrup, buffalo, salmon, O'odham chili, and more Food, entertainment, and spiritual blessing.

Join in a unique gathering at this revered Native American cultural and historic architectural site and enjoy the evening's feast under the stars in the San Xavier Plaza's majestic setting. At 6:00 pm there will be a reception and silent auction of Native American arts and crafts.

The evening dinner will begin at 6:30 pm with a blessing ceremony. Guests will enjoy the delicious Native foods of buffalo and salmon from the Northwest tribes, wild rice soup from the Great Lakes regions and cholla bud salad, prickly pear tea, Saguro Cactus Syrup, chili stew and Indian tamales from the Southern tribes. Native American dancers and musicians will share their rich culture with dinner guests. Part of the evenings festivities will be the presentation of two scholarships. One based on academic achievement with a (4.0) grade point average. The second based on the individual's work in teaching, sharing and passing on the culture and traditions of Native American Indians to the youth and to their community.

Seating is limited at the San Xavier Plaza. Please purchase tickets early. Individual ticket price in advance $50.00 and at the door $60.00. Corporate sponsored Table for 10 people $450.00 per table. Ticket price for couple in advance $80.00 and at the door $100.00. Tickets can be purchased at Reservation Creation Indian Gift Shop 520.295.1350.For more information regarding the feast and contributing to the scholarships program please call 520.622.4900.

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Golden Eagle Feather Scholarship and Award Application

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Golden Eagle Feather Scholarship & Award Recipients.
YEAR	ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT		TRADITIONAL TEACHING AWARD
2000	Ted Duke Kelly Comanche		Danny Lopez Tohono O'odham
	Master Degree University of Arizona		Preserver and rejuvenator of the O'odham Himdag-Desert People's Way, for his life-long work of sharing, teaching and passing on his culture and traditions to the next generation.
2001	Noel Speece Choctaw		Paul Ortega Mescalero Apache
	Masters Degree in Fine Arts University of Arizona		Traditional healer, world-reknowed artist, performer, writer & musician. He has touched so many.
2002	Antonio Benavidez Tohono O'odham		Victor B. Robles Pascua Yaqui Tribe
	1st TO to be the Valedictorian for Desert View High School Year 2002-3		He enjoys teaching the youth traditional art, music, dance and instruments.
2003	Shannon Taylor Navajo		Robert Ybanez Yaqui
	Senior in Elementary Education with a minor in Native American Studies Northern Arizona University		Counselor for Native American Students in the Sunnyside School District. His focus and dedication is to teach the native traditions to the youth and "Keeping them sacred & alive"
2004	Myrond Musket Navajo		Anita Antone Tohono O'odham
	Sophomore, majoring in Pre-Business Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona Sets high standards and high level of determination to maintain his 4.0GPA. Grew up knowing that he must obtain an education in order to make a difference in the world and be able to use it as a tool to help his people.		Master Basket weaver for over twenty years. She has been weaving intricate basket crowns of yucca, bear grass and devil's claw, for the Miss Tohono O'odham Pageant winners, and for the local Little Miss and Junior Miss pageants. Anita is preserving a very important aspect of her culture with her beautiful basketweavings.
2005	Louellyn White Mohawk from Akwesasne		Patrick Franko Tohono O'odham
	A Doctoral Candidate in American Indian Studies at the University of Arizona. The youngest of eleven children and the only one who has attended college, she remains committed to receiving an education. A passion for the preservation of Native culture, a desire to create positive social change, and commitment to improving the lives of future generations has motivated her along her path.		A leader and elder in his community of San Xavier District. He is committed to maintaining the culture and traditions of his people. After serving in two world wars, he returned to his home and worked in many areas, fighting for the water rights, housing, cooperative farming and education rights. He stays young by working with the children teaching them the old games, stories and history of the O'odham. You may also see him at parades or powwows leading the grand entry, as he marches in with the San Xavier District Color Guard.
2006	Jamie Joy Billiot United Houma Nation		Norwyn Wesley San Carlos Apache Nation
	Jamie Joy Billiot is from the United Houma Nation in South Louisiana. She is working on her Master’s degree at the University of Arizona in Language, Reading and Culture focusing on Indigenous Education. Her focus is on Indigenous Education with a directed interest in Language preservation and Native Youth success through identity development. A first generation high school graduate, college graduate and now graduate student, she is passionate about education. Her future plans are to return to her community to develop a community immersion school. She will take her education, her cultural experiences to serve her own community. She feels, “If she can help at least one student learn the possibilities of education, she has done what the Creator has called her to do.”		Norwyn Wesley, from the San Carlos Apache Nation is keeper of songs and ways of the Mountain Spirit Dancers.As a child eight years old he learned and remembered the songs and ceremonies of his grandfather, Fred Wesley. Norwyn studied for 15 years before taking on the responsibilities to continue on the Apache ways. His cultural group has extensively traveled with the first Native American Indian Dance Troupe, performing in New York to California to Italy. His Crown Dancers are featured at major Native American events including Gallup Ceremony, Window Rock Fair and New Mexico State Fair. It is the tradition of his family to carry on the songs and dances for future generations. “These songs are prayers and blessings for the girl of the Sunrise Dance so she will grow up and be a good women with a good life. This is the Apache way to pray.”
2007	Charmayne Sandaval Navajo		Louise Havier Tohono O'odham
	Charmayne Sandaval from Navajo . An 18 year old, Freshman student at Northern Arizona University in the Health Star program. Charmayne is of the Bitter Water Clan. Born for the towering House Clan. Her maternal grandfather is of the Many Goats Clan, and her paternal grandfather is of the Near the water clan. She plans to major in Biology with Minor in Zoology. Her desire is to be a Veterinarian. She plans to return to the Navajo Reservation to work with her people to help in the care of their animals. She feels knowledge of her culture and tradition especially her language is very important she feels very blessed to have the support in her family in all her endoeavous.		Louise Havier, Tohono O'odham, Is from the Village of Big Fields, located on the Tohono O'odham reservation. She is a lead medicine person for the Tohono O'odham Nation. She travels hundreds of miles when called upon to provide care and spirital healing for the people thoughout the southwest. She has been very instrumental in the repatration of artificts and ancestral remains for tribes throughout southern Arizona. She is an inspiration and teacher of The Red Road to many, especially to the young people. Teaching them the traditions and culture of her people, The O'odham Himdag.

We wish to thank the following for their generous donations and corporate table sponsorship at the 2008 TRADITIONAL INDIAN FEAST & FUNDRAISER FESTIVAL TENTH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION: Yavapai-Apache Nation Yavapai-Prescott Indian Tribe Colorado River Indian Tribe Tohono O'odham Nation Secret Gardens Publishing Arkadei Reservation Creations Indian Gift Shop National Native American Indian Information and Trade Center

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