11.15.07 - Sunset Ceremony

Scottish Rites Temple, Guthrie, Oklahoma

3-4pm   

• Calling of Tribes (Calling Songs)

4pm

• Seating of Dignitaries
• Flag Song & Welcome
• Traditional Cedar Blessing Ceremony
• Chata Ulla Choctaw Children’s Choir
• Remarks by Community Representatives:
  Elder, Mary Lou Davis (Caddo Tribe)
  Contemporary, Commander John Harrington
  (Chickasaw Tribe)
  Youth, Ayla Medrano
  (Kiowa,Comanche, Muscogee Creek)
• Tribal Leader Remarks
• Honoring of Otoe-Missouria War Mothers
• Memorial Song & Moment of Silence

5:20       

• Sunset - Stand and face W toward Oklahoma
  Avenue to bear witness to the setting of the sun
  paying homage to the last 100 years with
  anticipation of the next 100 years
• Flute Music – (Elder & Youth)
  Elder - Terry Tsotigh (Kiowa)
  Youth  - Me-way-seh Greenwood
  (Otoe Missouria, Ponca & Chickasaw)
  
• Closing Prayer in Native Language
  Reverend Eddie Lindsey (Muscogee Creek)
  
• Dismissal
  

11.16.07 - Parade @ Noon

• Tribal Color Guards & Veterans Groups
• Tribal  Flags
  
• American Indian Cultural Center & Museum
• Youth, Tribal Royalty &  Native Drum Group Float
• Elders & Dignitaries Float
• Kiowa Indigenous Horsemen
  

Guthrie Centennial