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May 20, 2006: Grand Opening: North American Indian Village.

North American Indian Interpretive Project -- (2005)

Grant Awarded: April 2005

Type of Grant: Humanities Project Grant

Sponsor: St Clair County RESA/Pine River Nature Center

Contact: Lisa Appel, Pine River Nature Center Operations Coordinator, lappel@sccresa.org

Websites: www.sccisd.org/prnc/

Award: $18,000

ST CLAIR COUNTY RESA/PINE RIVER NATURE CENTER AWARDED $14,980
North American Indian Village to Feature Cultural Videos & Curriculum

(GOODELLS, May 20, 2 006)-----The Michigan Humanities Council (MHC) announces it has awarded a $14,980 grant to the St. Clair County Regional Educational Service Agency (St. Clair County RESA) and Pine River Nature Center for its “North American Indian Interpretive Project.” The grant was awarded as a part of MHC’s “Strengthening Michigan’s Communities Through the Humanities” program which emphasizes collaboration among cultural, educational and community-based organizations and institutions to serve Michiganians today with public humanities projects and programs.

“This public humanities program provides an opportunity for residents and school children of southeastern Michigan to learn about key aspects of regional Indian culture, art and history,” stated Jan Fedewa, executive director of the Michigan Humanities Council. “The Michigan Humanities Council is pleased to fund this project which will use videos and curriculum in a newly constructed Indian village to encourage dialogue about North American Indian history and culture.”

The North American Indian Interpretive Project is a public humanities project about the history and culture of Indians from the pre-European period: Ojibwa, Odawa, and Potawatomi – collectively known as Anishinaabe. The project involves two unique video productions portraying oral histories and accurate reproductions. Both videos, “The First People: North American Indians of the Blue Water Area” and “Constructing the Village,” were premiered today at the Pine River Nature Center as part of the grand opening of its North American Indian Village. St. Clair County RESA plans to use a new wireless teleconferencing feature to offer the video and interpretive demonstrations to more than 29,000 K-12 students in its seven school districts. The project also includes a curriculum guide for educational programming at the Indian village, to be distributed to schools and community organizations in the area.

Charles Andrews, director of Administrative Services at the RESA, said, “The video project that the Michigan Humanities Council helped fund will reach thousands of children and people of all ages for years to come. We are happy to partner with the humanities council in this effort, which will significantly enhance the overall educational value of the Pine River Nature Center.”

“I applaud the Michigan Humanities Council, the Pine River Nature Center and the St. Clair Regional Educational Service Agency for developing this innovative learning experience,” stated U.S. Senator Carl Levin. “Native American history is also our history, and I am pleased that schoolchildren from all over southeast Michigan will have the opportunity to learn about and experience this important heritage.”

The Michigan Humanities Council, founded in 1974, is the state's independent, non-profit affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. For more information about the Michigan Humanities Council, visit www.michiganhumanities.org.

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