A Native student says she feels ‘whole again’ with an in-person event, after the pandemic forced the gathering to go virtual.
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According to Rocklyn Merrick, a student and the event’s coordinator, it marks a return to normalcy for many Native and Indigenous people living in the Salt Lake area. Though the event is free, members of the AISL club encourage attendees to donate non-perishable food items to benefit the, which delivers groceries, medical supplies, firewood and other goods to elders living on the Navajo reservation.
“When you are there, you feel everything, you feel the drum,” said Groves, an Indian education coordinator with Utah public schools. In most Native American communities, the elders are the keepers of tribal history, traditional stories and cultural practices. A tribe’s knowledge and wisdom – language, agricultural and hunting practices, creation stories and ceremonial traditions – is passed down from generation to generation through oral traditions.
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