Ramona Basket ~ Cahuilla Indians Exhibit the Ramona Basket during Indian Week
By Kathy McGraw, Riverside County CA Real Estate
(CELLing Realty)
The 4th Friday of September in California is Native American Day. In honor of this day, and the Native People, "Indian Week was celebrated around the State." Over this week-end the 18th Annual Thunder and Lightning Pow Wow was held on the Morongo Reservation. In Banning there was also a nice exhibit at the Dorothy Ramon Learning Center on San Gorgonio. My family and I went to the new Center, and behind it there was an exhibit with a Kish set up. Unfortunately we didn't get there early enough to participate in the flute making, but next year we'll know better. We left Banning and drove over to Palm Springs to see the Ramona Basket that was on exhibit for the first time ever at the Aqua Caliente Cultural Museum. What a fascinating story of the Ramona Basket. The Basket wa...
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