A fancy dancer performs in June during the Red Earth Festival parade. (Photo by Ashley McKee/The Oklahoman Archives)

Oklahoma City’s annual Red Earth Native American Cultural Festival is featured in the 2010 Rand McNally Road Atlas and Festival Guide with color images and an editorial description, according to a news release.

The publication, released in May 2009, contains the complete Road Atlas plus coverage of festivals and events located throughout the United States.

The 2009 Red Earth Festival, which took place in June in downtown Oklahoma City, drew 151 registered journalists representing publications and…

A fancy dancer performs during the Red Earth Festival parade last month in downtown Oklahoma City. (Photo by Ashley McKee/The Oklahoman)

The Red Earth Native American Cultural Festival, recognized as one of the largest performing arts event of its type, was been named the 2009 recipient of the Outstanding Cultural Tourism award presented by Frontier Country Marketing Association.

Red Earth was recognized during the annual meeting of the membership-based Frontier Country Marketing Association, according to a news release. The Frontier Country Marketing Association is a nonprofit membership-based organization that promotes tourism in central Oklahoma.

Award recipients…

A fancy dancer performs in the streets of downtown Oklahoma City during the Red Earth Parade Friday. Today is the final day of Red Earth 2009. (Photo by Ashley McKee/The Oklahoman)

Today’s featured event:

Take advantage of your last chance this year to take in American Indian art, dance, food, children’s activities, live entertainment and more at the 23rd Annual Red Earth Native American Cultural Festival.

Today is the final day of the event. The festivities will take place from about 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Cox Convention Center in downtown Oklahoma City.

For…

A delicious, filling bowl of buffalo corn pone at the Red Earth Festival. (BAM photo)

An expanded menu of American Indian foods are making the 23^rd Annual Red Earth Native American Cultural Festival a tastier, more rounded experience.

The festival continues today and Sunday at the Cox Convention Center in downtown Oklahoma City.

Festival organizers worked with Andrew Murin, executive chef of the venue’s Savor Catering by SMG, to create a special Red Earth menu that is being served at 3 Sisters Cafe at the event. The cafe is just outside the Cox Convention Center…

A young dancer walks in the Red Earth Festival Parade Friday morning in downtown Oklahoma City. Red Earth continues through Sunday at the Cox Convention Center. (Photo by Ashley McKee/The Oklahoman)

A version of this story appears in Saturday’s The Oklahoman. 

At Red Earth, love of dancing spans the generations

Amid the flowing feathers, bouncing bells and flying fringe of their grown-up counterparts, some tiny dancers could be seen circling the Cox Convention Center Arena Friday during the first grand entry of the 2009 Red Earth Native American Cultural Festival.

From little fancy dancers whose…

At the recent Red Earth Media Day at the state Capitol, I spoke to 2009 Red Earth Honored One Jereldine Redcorn about her art and the importance of the Red Earth Festival.

Redcorn is a nationally recognized artist who singlehandedly revived the lost art of Caddo pottery.

The 2009 Red Earth Festival started today, and I spent much of the morning and afternoon checking out the art, dancing, food and other offerings. I highly recommend attending while the festival is going on at the Cox Convention Center through Sunday. Redcorn’s booth is…

Caddo potter Jereldine Redcorn shows one of her pots at her Norman home. (Photos by Steve Sisney/The Oklahoman)

Some of Jereldine Redcorn’s traditional Caddo pots.

From Friday’s Weekend Look section of The Oklahoman.

Red Earth: Artist honors Caddo ancestry

NORMAN – Artist Jereldine Redcorn’s efforts to revive a beautiful part of her Caddo heritage have reached far beyond the tribe’s ancestral four-state home.

The Norman resident’s pottery has been exhibited at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian’s George Gustav Heye Center in New York and Art Institute of Chicago. One her…

Andrew Murin, executive chef for the Cox Convention Center and Ford Center, talks about one of the new dishes you can find at this year’s Red Earth Festival in this NewsOK video.

-BAM

Cortney Yarholer smiles during the 2008 Red Earth Festival. (The Oklahoman Archives photo)

From Friday’s Weekend Look section of The Oklahoman.

Special menu created for Red Earth

An expanded menu of American Indian foods will be among the changes at the 23^rd Annual Red Earth Native American Cultural Festival.

The event is today-Sunday at the Cox Convention Center. Festival organizers have worked with Andrew Murin, executive chef of the venue’s Savor Catering by SMG, to create a special Red Earth menu.

Along with the usual festival foods and beverages, Murin has developed signature dishes that will be…

Light shines through a dancer’s regalia at the 2008 Red Earth Festival. (The Oklahoman Archives photo)

2009 Red Earth Festival schedule

Today

8 a.m.-5 p.m.: Dancer Registration – South Lobby Cox Convention Center

9:30-10:30 a.m.: Artist Awards Ceremony and Honored One Presentation – Southeast Lobby Cox Convention Center

10:30-11:30 a.m.: Red Earth Parade – Downtown Oklahoma City

11 a.m. to 8 p.m.: Art Market

                        Native Exchange Market

                        Youth Art Exhibit

                        Children’s Activities

                        Cultural Performances – Exhibit Halls 2 and 3    

Noon: Grand Entry of Dancers and Ambassador of the Year Presentation – Cox…