JACKIE BRIGGS
Jackie specializes in brain-tanning deer hides, twined bags, pine needle baskets, grape vine baskets, egg baskets, bone awls and needles from deer legs. Her latest demonstrations include Indian pipe carving. She is a member of the Society of Primitive Technologists and a student of primitive skills at Earth Skills Workshops. Jackie is a demonstrator at Kolomoki Mounds Indian Festival in addition to the Ossahatchee Indian festival.

RUSSELL CUTTS
Russell Cutts began studying ancient American cultures when he was ten years old, and the learning never stops. As a youth, his interests expanded to include ancient 'earthskills' and the meeting of human needs through the interaction within an environment. This area of study continued formally at the University of Georgia, where he received his Bachelor of Arts in Ecological Anthropology. During his tenure as a graduate student in anthropology he taught classes at the university, and completed his Master of Arts in 1997. As an Eagle Scout (1987) he continues to work with the Boy Scouts of America as an adult leader, both at the troop level and with the honor society Order of the Arrow. Russell has lectured extensively across the southeast, presented at dozens of festivals, pow-wows and shows, consulted with several southeastern museums, and is a member of The Society of Primitive Technology and the Southeastern Archaeological Conference. His hobbies include international travel, organic gardening, studying sustainable Earthship homes, ecological/environmental ethics, amateur astronomy, Scottish heritage and, of course, American Indians. He is currently the Director of Programs and Exhibits at the Funk Heritage Center and Bennett History Museum at Reinhardt College in Waleska, Georgia.

BEN KIRKLAND
Ben Kirkland is nationally known as a Primitive Skills Specialist. He also is known as a naturalist, ecologist, wildlife manager and forest ranger. He has been the Chief Ranger and Naturalist at Chehaw Park in Albany, Georgia since 1986, where he now manages the education program for Chehaw Animal Park.

KAREN KIRKLAND
Karen King Kirkland...is an artist with years of background in (and a passion for!) primitive skills. She works with natural items to create baskets, jewelry and containers out of nature's gifts. Karen uses gourds, grasses, bone, leather, plants, shells, wood, clay, etc. to create works of art- often functional ones. She enjoys growing and gathering her own materials as well as searching
nature for items she can employ in her creations, often fashioning her own cordage or weaving materials from found leaves and grasses. To have a chance to watch her at work is fascinating, as she employs both ancient and new techniques in her work. Don't miss this demonstration!

KAYLA KIRKLAND
Kayla Kirkland...is an artist with years of background in (and a passion for!) primitive skills. She works with natural items to create baskets, jewelry and containers out of nature's gifts. Kayla uses gourds, grasses, bone, leather, plants, shells, wood, clay, etc. to create works of art- often functional ones. She enjoys growing and gathering her own materials as well as searching nature for items she can employ in her creations, often fashioning her own cordage or weaving materials from found leaves and grasses. To have a chance to watch her at work is fascinating, as she employs both ancient and new techniques in her work.

MICHAEL F. STUCKEY
Michael specializes in Primitive Pottery in the Southeastern Tradition and has had numerous shows including: Visual Arts Center in Panama City, Florida: 103 items of Primitive pottery in southeastern tradition displayed; Gallery of Art in Panama City, Florida: several shows and demonstrations; Museum of Fine Arts at Florida State University: "Dimensions of Native America: The Contact Zone"; Tallahassee City Hall Art Gallery: "The Art of Craft," a group exhibition by North Florida craftsmen.

NANCY BASKET
A basket maker for 20 years, Nancy was born in the Northwest, in Yakima, Washington. To be closer to the Cherokee people and to learn the stories of her ancestors she has been in the South, since 1989.

In addition to baskets, Nancy also makes paper art from kudzu leaves that tell Native American stories in her 100-year-old barn with walls of baled kudzu. Having taught her own kids the legends and she now teaches school children the stories of respect throughout the southeast in public schools as an artist in education.

Nancy has worked for the TV movie series, Young Indiana Jones making a basket for Indy's dog to jump into. (The basket becomes a hot air balloon.) She has also worked for the movie, Last of the Mohicans, making mats, masks and bark baskets.

PETER EVANS
Peter is a student of Ben Kirkland. He has been learning under him for a little over a year. He demonstrates: Brain-tanning, flint-knapping, fire-by-friction, arrow making, and other primitive skills. He has demonstrated at several pow wows throughout the state including: Ossahatchee Indian Festival, Stone Mountain Indian Festival, Rome Pow Wow, Kolomoki Mounds Indian Festival, and the Columbus River Fest to name a few.

  MARVIN GARDNER

JIM & CODY SAWGRASS
Sawgrass is a native Floridian and Muskogee descendant. He has shared his skills and knowledge all over the southeast for the past 2 decades to groups of all ages. Performing at Schools, Churches, Libraries, civic Groups both indoors and outdoors. Deep Forest Historical Native American Program has a culture presentation for everyone.
Sawgrass enjoys sharing his experience and knowledge. Sawgrass has done much to enlighten and inform other cultures about the Native Americans who lived in the Southeastern United Sates. He and his son Cody (how now performs with his father) are well respected in Native American circles for there knowledge, experience and skills at presenting history of the Southeastern Indian tribes.
Don’t miss our exciting historical and cultural experience of Native American as they create this wonderful opportunity to learn from our past.