Visit USA 2020 Travel Planner

visitusa.org.uk 27 RED CITY The three-day Red Earth Festival celebrating Native American culture takes over Oklahoma City, in Oklahoma, each June. A thousand dancers, tribal leaders, bands and singers dressed in traditional regalia parade through the streets prior to native dancing competitions and an art market featuring the work of more than 200 native artisans in the city’s convention centre. ANCESTORS REMEMBERED The Wampanoag tribes of Massachusetts are staging a drum ceremony and ancestors will walk with placards bearing the names of the original 69 Wampanoag Nation villages in August 2020, as part of the Plymouth 400 celebrations marking the Mayflower crossing’s 400th anniversary in Plymouth. ROYAL FESTIVITIES King Kamehameha Day on June 11 is celebrated across Hawai‘i, honouring the first king to unite the islands in 1795. Celebrations include floral parades through Honolulu and in his Big Island birthplace, North Kohala, where festivities with local food, traditional arts, hula dancers and Hawai‘ian music follow. ALASKAN OLYMPICS Held every July since 1961 in Fairbanks, Alaska, the four-day World Eskimo-Indian Olympics features competitive events as well as native dance groups, arts exhibits, handicrafts, and regalia contests. Traditional games, practised for generations, include the seal hop, four man carry, greased pole walk, ear pull and one-foot high kick. The two-day GATHERING OF NATIONS held each April in ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO , is the largest pow wow in North America and features an Indian Traders Market, art, live music, and the annual crowning of Miss Indian World. One of North America's most notable archaeological sites, explore 600 preserved cliff dwellings of the ancient PUEBLO people who lived in what is now south-west Colorado’s MESA VERDE NATIONAL PARK for more than 700 years until the end of the 13th century. “The Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum in Florida's Everglades celebrates the culture of the Seminoles, the only tribe in North America never to sign a peace treaty”