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VINITA, OK - The Cherokee Nation will host a Cultural Camp from Monday, June 2 to Friday, June 6, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.., at Cowboy Junction in Vinita. The camp will be hosted by the Cherokee Nation Cultural Resource Center and is open to 100 students who attended Kindergarten through eighth grade during the 2007-2008 school year. Participants will receive instruction on how to make baskets, corn husk dolls, miniature stickball sticks, key rings and how to work with clay. Traditional games will also be taught and will include: marbles, stickball and blow guns. Instruction and art supplies will be provided by the Cherokee Nation Cultural Resource Center. For more information about the camp, call 918-453-5151.

Related Cherokee Nation contact information:

Mike Miller, Cherokee Nation Director of Communications Phone: 918-456-0671 (ext.2210) Fax: 918-458-5580 E-mail: Communications@cherokee.org Larry Daugherty, Advertising Manager Cherokee Nation - Public Affairs Phone 918-456-0671 (Ex.2324) E-mail: ldaugherty@cherokee.org

Steven Swogger, Agriculture Liaison Natural Resources Department Phone: 918-456-0671 (ext.2546) FAX: 918-458-7673 E-mail: sswogger@cherokee.org Bradley D. Peak, Cherokee Nation Natural Resources Specialist Phone: 918-456-0671 (ex.2843) E-mail: bpeak@cherokee.org