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CELEBRATE NATIVE PEOPLE’S MONTH at IRVINE

Irvine Nature Center

Visit Irvine’s Native American Educational Site to learn more about Maryland’s first people. Learn about pre-colonial culture of the Eastern Woodland Indians with hands-on activities and demonstrations of traditional skills while exploring the longhouse and wigwams. Grind corn, throw an atlatl, try your hand at starting a friction fire, make cordage, a buckskin bracelet and more. American Indians... Read more »

$15 – $40
Featured Featured Event Series WORKSHOP: SOUTHEASTERN STYLE MOCCASIN MAKING with Jeff Gottlieb (2-day workshop)

WORKSHOP: SOUTHEASTERN STYLE MOCCASIN MAKING with Jeff Gottlieb (2-day workshop)

Irvine Nature Center

These beautiful, supremely comfortable, custom fitted moccasins are patterned after the traditional footwear of the Cherokee, Seminole, Creek and other Southeastern tribes. Under the guidance of The Primitive Naturalist Jeff Gottlieb, we will learn how to take measurements of the foot, make a pattern, choose buckskin, lay out the pattern and cut the material. Then the precise stitching... Read more »

$145
Featured Featured Event Series WORKSHOP: SOUTHEASTERN STYLE MOCCASIN MAKING with Jeff Gottlieb (2-day workshop)

WORKSHOP: SOUTHEASTERN STYLE MOCCASIN MAKING with Jeff Gottlieb (2-day workshop)

Irvine Nature Center

These beautiful, supremely comfortable, custom fitted moccasins are patterned after the traditional footwear of the Cherokee, Seminole, Creek and other Southeastern tribes. Under the guidance of The Primitive Naturalist Jeff Gottlieb, we will learn how to take measurements of the foot, make a pattern, choose buckskin, lay out the pattern and cut the material. Then the precise stitching... Read more »

$145
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Indigenous Lifeways – LUNCH & LEARN

Irvine Nature Center

Join us for a nature-inspired presentation by Irvine's Master Naturalist, Clare Walker, PhD, plus enjoy a delicious catered lunch from ACE Catering and themed mocktails. This program is part of Irvine's 3-part Lunch & Learn series.  Maryland has a long and rich history of Indigenous People, from early mammoth hunters to large villages along the... Read more »

$28 – $45