Members range in professions from teachers to hospital patient advocates, tree surgeons and computer engineers. The company was all-volunteer, a tradition that exists to today. To these were added dances from the plains, including the Hopi Buffalo Dance, and newer dances including the Grass Dance and Jingle Dress Dance. Jack Preston taught the company its Iroquois dances, including the Robin Dance and Fish Dance. Thunderbirds have occurred as a rock art motif for millennia, the pecked, painted and incised images dating back at least 7000 years or more. They founded the troupe to keep alive the traditions, songs and dances they had learned from their parents, and added to their repertoire from other Native Americans living in New York and some who were passing through. Some were in school at the time all were 'first generation,' meaning that their parents had been born on reservations. Prominent among the founders were Louis Mofsie (Hopi/Winnebago) and his sister, Josephine Mofsie (deceased), Rosemary Richmond (Mohawk, deceased), Muriel Miguel (Cuna/Rapahannock) and Jack Preston (Seneca, deceased). Intentional Fire-Spreading by Firehawk Raptors in Northern Australia, Journal of Ethnobiology. 9 Mark Bonta, Robert Gosford, Dick Eussen, Nathan Ferguson, Erana Loveless, and Maxwell Witwer. Archaeology of Eastern North America, vol. It is considered a supernatural being of power and. THE THUNDERBIRD MOTIF IN NORTHEASTERN INDIAN ART. The troupe was founded in 1963 by a group of ten Native American men and women, all New Yorkers, who were descended from Mohawk, Hopi, Winnebago and San Blas tribes. The thunderbird is a legendary creature in certain North American indigenous peoples history and culture. The Thunderbird American Indian Dancers are the oldest resident Native American dance company in New York.

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