The People of The Hunting Ground Kids' Trail

Mixed Peoples of Our First Nations

The People of The Hunting Ground

This page is dedicated to our future - the children.
We will be providing special web links so all you kids out here can have access to information so you can make your own Native American crafts and to learn more about Native Americans, especially here in The Hunting Ground. We will be also adding an online photo album,

Kid's Trail Photo Album, as soon as we receive your pictures. So, please check back to this page for updates as they become available.

FYI
The Hunting Ground is a name we use to refer to Kentucky. We took this name from a mixture of definitions of the Iroquois word for Kentucky which is kenhtake, that means grassy meadow, prairie, a hunting ground.

At one time Kentucky was spelled Kentuckee.

To all the children
Have you been to a Native American gathering (powwow) or festival, visited a historic place or site involving Native Americans or museum exhibit?
Please share your experience with us. Send us your stories and photographs and we will post them on this web page. We ask that you give us the who, what, where, and when of your experience. We will give you credit for your stories and photographs, so please send us whatever information about yourself that your parents will allow. We are looking forward to hearing from all your children and remember you are the future.
- The People Of The Hunting Ground

Yahoo Falls,, Whitley County, KY Copywrite 2008

We found this interesting list on the website of Kentucky Bison Company (www.kybisonco.com)

Native American Use of Buffalo

The following is only a partial list of the many items used and made from the

bison carcass by the Plains Indians. List supplied by the Fort Whyte Centre, Winnipeg, MB.

Rawhide Drums Shields Moccasin Soles	Bladder Pouches Medicine Bag	Meat Sausage Jerky
Skull Rituals	Muscles Bows Thread	Stomach Contents Medicines Paints
Fat Tallow Soaps	Blood Soups Paints	Stomach Liner Water Containers Cooking Vessels
Brain Hide Preparation Food	Tail Medicine Whips	Paunch Liner Wrappings (Meat) Buckets Collapsible Cups
Beard Ornamentations	Chips Fuel Diaper Powder	Hoofs, Feet, & Dewclaws Glue Rattles Spoons
Horns Arrow Points Powder Horn	Hair Pillows Ropes	Bones Pipes Knives Arrowheads Scrapers Paintbrushes Game Dice Toys
Buckskin Tipi Covers Winter Robes	Scrotum Rattles Canes	Tendons Sinews - Sewing Bowstrings
Teeth Ornamentation	Gall Yellow Paint	Liver Tanning Agents
Tongue Choice Meat Comb (Rough Side)	Hind Leg Skin Preshaped Moccasin

We found the information below at NativeTexh.com

Indian Youth's Rite of Passage

Do you know the legend of the Cherokee Indian youth's rite of Passage?

His father takes him into the forest, blindfolds him an leaves him alone. He is required to sit on a stump the whole night and not remove the blindfold until the rays of the morning sun shine through it. He cannot cry out for help to anyone.

Once he survives the night, he is a MAN

He cannot tell the other boys of this experience, because each lad must come into manhood on his own. The boy is naturally terrified. He can hear all kinds of noises. Wild beasts must surely be all around him . Maybe even some human might do him harm. The wind blew the grass and earth, and shook his stump, but he sat stoically, never removing the blindfold. It would be the only way he could become a man! Finally, after a horrific night the sun appeared and he removed his blindfold.

It was then that he discovered his father sitting on the stump next to him. He had been at watch the entire night, protecting his son from harm.

We, too, are never alone. Even when we don't know it, God is watching over us,

Sitting on the stump beside us. When trouble comes, all we have to do is reach out to Him.

Just because you can't see God, doesn't mean He is not there. "For we walk by faith, not by sight"
2 Corinthians 5:7

If you liked this story, pass it on. If not, you took off your blindfold before dawn.

Candy Dance at the 2010 Annual Richmond Powwow

in Richmond, KY

Candy Dance at the 2010 Annual Richmond Powwow

in Richmond, KY

At the 2010 Annual Richmond Powwow in Richmond, KY

At the 2009 All Nations at Westport Gathering

in Westport, KY

At the 2011 Kids At Art Night at Painted Stone Elemebtary School in Shelbyville, KY

We have a photo album for this page, please use the photo album button at the top left this page to go to our photo album section and double click the title of the album, Kid's Trail Photo Album

to see more photos.

American Indian Leaders

2016 Jenny Wiley Festival Powwow

in Prestonsburg, KY

2016 Jenny Wiley Festival Powwow

in Prestonsburg, KY