Inclement weather has forced the cancelation of Saturday’s annual Prairie Awakening-Prairie Awoke Native American celebration at the Kuehn Conservation Area in rural Redfield, the Dallas County Conservation Board announced Saturday morning.
The DCCB’s long-standing position is that one of the best ways to awaken a prairie, and the residents of Dallas County, is to return the music, dances, stories, drums and songs of this place’s First Nations peoples to today’s landscape. To this end, the DCCB teams up each year with the Meskwaki Nation, inviting their children to share their lessons in the arena.
The theme planned for the 2022 celebration was “Much can be learned by watching children at play,” a reflection on the words of Black Elk, the Lakota Elder.
