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SAN JUAN BAUTISTA -
California Indian
Market and Peace Pow Wow is an annual event to celebrate
peace. Native American Indian culture, festive costumes,
products, art and a variety of goods and services are all
explored in the 24th annual celebration held at Mission San Juan
Bautista. Held 2 days, May 3 & 4, 2008, a ceremony opens the
event at 10 a.m. on Saturday May 3 with Kanyon Sayers honoring
our ancestors with prayer.
Organized by a renown local
artist from San Juan Bautista, Elayne da Silva-Reyna aka “Laynee
Reyna” or Bluebird Woman, this visionary who's worked in many
careers and helped many people through service as a military
medic during wartime, private pilot and member of the Flying
Doctors, who assist people in need of medical help in other
countries, volunteering their time and services, has also been a
spiritual counselor to help people through their grief and
issues that hold them back from living life to its fullest.
Reyna formed the non-profit One Earth, One People, Peace Vision,
Inc. to help empower people to restore honorable and respectful
relationships through understanding that all life is sacred and
interconnected. She won a silver medal/second place in the 2003
National Veterans Creative Arts Festival for her portrait of
prophet “Medicine Song Woman- Bernice Torrez”, Kashaya-Pomo
California Indian, and daughter of renowned Shaman Woman, Essie
Parrish, and donates proceeds from fund-raising events such as
the California Indian Market and Peace Pow Wow to bring art into
the lives of youth with supplies and instruction.
At 11 a.m. California Indian Dancers Amah-Ka-Tura performance. Noon
is Kelly Looking Horse - Lakota Traditional Dance and Song; and
1 to 2:30 p.m. and 4 to 5:30 p.m. will be Grand Entry Northern
Drum Singers honoring veterans, families and cultures. Jingle &
Shaw Dancers Children's Round Dance will follow. And at 2:30 to
3:30, 5:30, 6:30 p.m. watch the splendor of Resplendent Xipe
Totec Aztec Dancers. Cinco de Mayo will be honored, too, as all
people join in a friendship dance. Donations are accepted
and benefit Peace Vision's youth arts projects. Call:
(831) 623-4771 or peacevision.net.
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