- Date
- 2011-11
- Kind
- Occurrence
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- anishinaabe-odawareligionheritagecommunity
- Within
- Beaver Island
The January 2012 Beaver Beacon reports that Dennis Banks and a friend made a large buffalo-hide Anishinaabe dance drum and brought it to Beaver Island after a ceremony in late 2011. The published account says it was entrusted to a local caretaker under rules requiring respectful, ceremonial treatment.
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This record preserves only the public newspaper account. It does not reproduce private ceremonial knowledge or treat the article’s historical origin story as an independently verified account of Anishinaabe tradition.
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- Beaver Beacon, January 2012, "A Drum for the Island."Reports that Dennis Banks and a friend made a large buffalo-hide dance drum, brought it to Beaver Island after a ceremony, and entrusted it to Fred Schoonbeck with rules about location, respect, and ceremonial use. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2012-01_Beaver-Beacon
- The held January issue scan confirms the public cultural report.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2012-01_Beaver-Beacon
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Beaver Island Archive, “Dennis Banks brings an Anishinaabe dance drum to Beaver Island”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-dance-drum-2011/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, January 2012, "A Drum for the Island." (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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