1. PowWow Buttons are $15 per person and they give you…

                        Free admission Saturday, Sunday and Monday
                        Free parking inside the park in camping area
                        Free camping in tent or motorhome on the grounds  
                        Free electricity, limited supply, and water
                        One Free meal daily at the Rockome Restaurant ($12 value each)
                        Permission to load and unload inside the park at the trader area/dance arena

1. Leashed pets in camp, never in the dance or trader area
2. Motels in Arcola, Tuscola, Mattoon, Champaign-Urbana
3. Traders’ hours 10am to 7pm Saturday & Sunday, 10am to 4pm Monday, later as you please

        5)    Vehicles must be stored back in the campground during traders’ hours
        6)    Illinois Tomahawk Throwers 10am to 5pm Saturday & Sunday, later as you please, 10am to
5pm Monday

1. Michael Jacobs, Cherokee recording Artist from the Milwaukee area, will sing before Grand

                      Entries Saturday, Sunday and Monday
        8)    Dale Besse, Master of Ceremonies from Collinsville, IL, will call dancers together for Grand
Entry and keep everyone informed of happenings, changes and additions
        9)    Southern Drum is Shawn Foye, Pawnee/Comanche, Head Singer, and his father, cousin, mother
       10)   Northern Drum to be announced
11)   Grand Entry at 1pm Saturday, Sunday and Monday and at 7pm Saturday and Sunday evenings
12)   In observance of Memorial Day Weekend, a Mattoon High School ROTC Four-Member
               Color Guard will help bring in the colors during the Saturday Grand Entries at 1pm and 7pm
13)   John Dreher, Crow, Arena Director will say opening prayers
14)   Intertribal Dancing  
Saturday 1 to 2:30pm… an hour break… 3:30 to 5pm…a two-hour break… 7 to 9pm
Sunday 1 to 2:30pm…an hour break… 3:30 to 5pm…a two-hour break… 7 to 9pm
Monday 1 to 2:20pm…an hour break…3:30 to 4:50pm…dance out the drum at 5pm
15)  Sonny Starr, Head Man Dancer, and his sister, Josee Starr, Head Woman Dancer,
             Arikara/Omaha/Ottawa, will lead dances.  Please introduce yourselves to these Griffith,
             Indiana, folks who attend Chicago Indian Center and Chicago-land dances
16)  Dancers will win $20 in Gold Sacajawea Dollars who register, are in their dance clothes
and present when their names are called.  Five dancers’ names will be called…three times
Saturday, three times Sunday and two times Monday …40 dancers’ names for a total of 800
in Gold Sacajawea Dollars.
17)  Jim Roach, Eagle Scout, retired railroader, wood artist, metal artist, beadworker, displays his
             Museum of Plains Clothing during traders’ hours in the big white tent.  Some are his own
             beadwork, others are collected since 1976, all are a tribute to the beauty of  traditional clothing

1.  Dottie Hendricks is the Frybread Lady cooking in a kettle over an open fire for all to sample.

              The recipe and technique were learned from Geri Green, Ho-Chunk …a real palette pleaser.       
19  ) Joel Hendricks is the go-to person for anything else except broken hearts.  I brought my first tipi
                     here to Rockome Gardens in 1959 and I still love the place…hope you will too.   After hours
Dottie and I are camped in the Four Winds motorhome at Campground/Dance/Trader
Registration.
20)  John and Barb Dreher and Dottie and I will host a breakfast of frybread, coffee, juice and
scrambled eggs in camp from 8am to 9am Sunday and Monday.  Bring your appetite.

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