College hosts native American festival

A Native American Spring Festival is slated for the week of May 23 at Central Oregon Community College. The events are free, and the public is welcome.

• May 23: From 6 to 8 p.m., a Native American art exhibit opens in the Pinckney Art Gallery on the COCC Bend campus. Foster Kalama, a Native American flutist, will perform and refreshments will be served. The exhibit continues through June 6.

• May 24: At 7 p.m. Cynthia Starke, tribal attorney for the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, Karnopp & Petersen Law Firm, will speak on current issues in Indian law in Hitchcock Auditorium.

• May 25: At 7 p.m. Robert Greygrass, Lakota Sioux performer, will present a one-man show called “Ghostlands” in Hitchcock Auditorium.

• May 26: At 7 p.m. Dr. Shari Huhndorf, chair of Ethnic Studies for the University of Oregon, will discuss her book, “Going Native: American Indians in the Cultural Imagination,” in Hitchcock Auditorium and will later take questions.

• May 27: At noon the salmon and buffalo feast will start in the Pinckney Center combining the celebration of the renewal of life with the tradition of the pow-wow. Activities will include traditional drumming, dancing and singing. Samples of Indian tacos and fresh salmon will be served.

For information, call 553-1428 or 318-3787.