July Pow-Wow Featured Guest
Diamond Brown

     Diamond is a full-blooded Cherokee, growing up in the
community of Snowbird in the Great Smokey Mountains, Within
this community there is the highest percentage of full-bloods and
Cherokee speakers. These native people are known as the more
traditional people within the nation.
     Diamond is a Native Educator, teaching his culture all over
the United States to pre-schoolers to the adult to the elderly.
He takes special care in the designing a program to each specific
age group.
     Diamond's commitment is on educating and breaking some
of the stereotypical images of Native people. His program is
unique in that's its from a Native person's perspective of the past,
present and future of the Native people.
     His Native skills include spirituality, arrow making, dancing
blow darts, pottery, tee-pee demonstration, hide tanning, basket-
making, clothing, fire-making, herbs & medicine and
Environmental storytelling. Also, teaching, carving, games,
survival, blow gun demonstrations, canoeing, shelters, flute
drumming, tools, weaponry, lecturing, leather work, history and
Cherokee encampment.

September Pow-Wow Featured Guest
Eddie Swimmer

     Eddie Swimmer is an Internationally-known Hoop Dancer,
raised on the Qualla Boundary in the Big Cove Community of
Cherokee, NC. His heritage comes from the Eastern Band of
Cherokees and Chippewa-Cree Tribes. For the past 18 years
he calls the Albuquerque, NM area his home
     Eddie has traveled and toured with many Dance companies
including the "American Indian Dance Theatre" out of New York
and the I.P.A. Dance Company in Germany. He performed at
the 1993 Roaskilde Festival in Denmark, 1993 Macey's
Thanksgiving Day Parade, the opening ceremonies for the 1994
World Cup in Dallas, the 1995 Israel Israel in Jerusalem and
the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games in Atlanta.
     While living in New Mexico, Eddie was cast as one of the
original performers for the musical, "Along the Santa Fe Trail"
at the Santa Fe Music Hall in Santa Fe. This group also had the 
opportunity to perform "Phantom of the Opera". He also
choreographed a hoop dance number for "Annie Get Your Guns",
A Broadway musical in New York City.
     Eddie Swimmers portrait of a Hoop Dancer can be found in
the U.S. Postage Stamp Collection "Native Dance Series".