35th Annual North Carolina Indian Conference

This year's theme is: "Thirty-Five Years of Empowering North Carolina's Indigenous People: 1975-2010".

The conference consists of the following: Workshops on issues important to the Tribes and organizations of North Carolina, an inter-tribal pow-wow, juried art exhibition, awards banquet, scholarship and awards breakfast, creative writing competition, Indian traders and artists expo, quilting competition, amateur art competition, gospel singing, crowning of Miss United Tribes, and so much more. The conference will announce and award scholarships to Native youth attending four-year institutions of learning. Below is contact information for those of you who would like to participate in this year's conference:

Juried art exhibition: barbarabraveboy@earthlink.net or janejjacobs@yahoo.com

Applications/Guidelines for Scholarships: Hattie Campbell: siouan@aol.com

Creative writing competition: Kay Oxendine: kayox@hotmail.com

Traders booth rental: Archie Lynch: alynch@haliwa-saponi.com

Amateur art competition: Keshia Enoch: obsn@mebtel.net

Quilting competition: Brenda Moore: siouan@aol.com

Scholarship sponsorships, ad purchase for the conference booklet, awards sponsorships: Ruth L. Revels: wrevels@triad.rr.com

General conference sponsorships, including a specific activity, corporations and others: Barry Richardson: now-cdcbarry@coastalnet.com

The conference is made possible only through the generosity of our sponsors and attendees. Every year this important conference struggles to assemble the funds and support needed to keep it affordable for our population to attend. We ask that you consider supporting the conference in any way possible.

Over 600 people and organizations attended last year. Our goal is to host 700 this year!!!! We hope to see you there!!!