10 and is displaying art created by members' children through the month of November. The McGuire library held a similar storytelling event Nov. "It is important to keep kids interested and to teach them the history so they can someday pass these traditions on to the next generation," said Cathy Scott, senior library technician. She then passed cornbread out to elders first then to the children as community members sat Indian style in a circle. Cirillo asked for permission to tell the stories as is customary for the storyteller to do. The event was carried out with the same care and precision as a traditional Native American storytelling would have been. Each story told at this event was not written down but passed down through the re-telling of them around campfires. The stories are meant to teach the children life lessons and how to make certain things such as cornbread. One prop in particular is the skin of a wolf, which children wore during storytelling and helped them to become the wolf." "I passed around props during the storytelling to make the experience more real for the children. "By telling these stories we are preserving the Native American culture, which is the most important part," said Mimi Cirillo, Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst library director. 9 in honor of Native American Heritage month.Īlong with traditional storytelling, the children received dreamcatchers provided by the joint base Special Observance Committee and learned the relevance of cornbread to Native Americans. The Fleet Family Center here hosted an afternoon of Native American storytelling for community members' children Nov.
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