Cherokee Community of the Inland Empire
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Cherokee Community of the Inland Empire (CCIE)
home page is your portal to a community of people with ties to or an
interest in the Cherokee People, the Culture, Language, History and
the Cherokee Nation.
November 15, 2008 General Meeting Flyer is available Here!
For the Tawodi Newsletter Oct. Nov. 2008 Issue click Here!
Joining in CCIE’S August celebration of our new meeting site at the historic “Sherman Indian High School” and being Chaptered under the Cherokee Nation were our guests the “Brother Bear Drum Circle”. The drumming and singing by the eight members were felt deeply and much appreciated by all that attended this meeting.
Singing Byrd sang as Liz played the drum in honor of our Elders and those who could not be here with us.
During the meeting guest Henry 
Vasquez played the flutes while members and guests enjoyed their meal. Later Henry displayed and ex-plained about the many flutes he brought to share with us. He also brought Aztec, Chumash and Calif. Bird singing rattles. The Aztec Rain Stick was interesting and beautiful.
Otter initiated a Cherokee language segment to CCIE meetings. She will provide a word or phrase in English and Cherokee for
participants to learn and repeat. Aug’s phrase was
“How are you? Fine, and you?” 
CCIE members Anna, Shauna and Megan recently returned from the drum camp where they learned valuable informa-tion. It was during drum camp that Shauna’s drum was given the name “Lady Hawk” and a naming ceremony was preformed. It is through events like these that our members are able to participate in ceremonies and learn of our traditions that would otherwise be unknown to us.
We the CCIE members are so very proud of these ladies as they have come together through their love for the drum, their quest for knowledge and their relationship through CCIE. We appreciate the gift of knowledge they bring to CCIE and their love and enthusiasm for the drum.
One of the highlights of the afternoon was a coming together of both drum groups as they played together many joined in dance around both drum circles. Thank you to everyone that attended.
Our Silent Auction was a huge success again! Thank you Members for your donations and participation.
Cherokee Nation 2008 Picnic
The Cherokee Nation Picnic was held in
Long Beach on April 13th ! Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chad
Smith, Deputy Chief Joe Grayson, Tribal Council Dignitaries and the
Cherokee Youth Choir were there. Be sure to see the Photo Gallery, pictures
are there for your viewing. Also see the CN Picnic 2008 page for
more photos.
Thank you to Kathie for the
Quote at the top of our pages for the next couple months. If you have a favorite Quote that you
think would be appropriate for our website please send it to our
website address, if approved we will use it as our header for a two
month period and do our best to make an acceptable background for
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