The 28th Annual Buffalo Commons Storytelling and Music Festival is packed with opportunities to laugh, have fun, learn and remember. Our nationally renowned storyteller will spin hilariously poignant stories, a one-of-a-kind musical experience will awaken your spirit and make it dance. Visual artists will inspire and stimulate your perceptions, and a walk-through history where history happened will amaze and enlighten. Don’t miss a single extraordinary event–Historic Fox Theatre stage show, dinner cabaret, historical tour and venues, art shows, museum melodies and memories, open mic opportunities, poetry sharing, Kids Fest and more!

Matt Reed, Pawnee Tribal Historic Preservation Officer from Pawnee, OK, will share history and narratives related to the Pawnee Nation. Participants will then board the bus to Massacre Canyon, Trenton and sites associated with the battle between the Pawnee and the Sioux. Matt Reed, Tom Baker, and Cathy Upton are prepared to help you ‘relive’ this historical event. Artifacts are on exhibit at the Hitchcock County Historical Museum which chronicle the massacre of 1873 for participants to examine.

Upon returning to McCook, the bus will stop at ArtBank McCook for a look at John Thein’s exhibit entitled Wounded Knee documenting the 1890 massacre of hundreds of Native Americans on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation near Wounded Knee, SD.

$30.00 – Includes lunch

Register online:  bceregister.mpcc.edu

Or call McCook Community College at 308-345-8122