Hello Wassamasaw Tribal Community,
Just  a reminder for the Tribal activity next week at Northwoods Baptist Church from 1:00pm - 3:00pm. 
We will be teaching you how to cook Fry Bread. We are looking forward to seeing you there!

Hello Wassamasaw Community,
The Goose Creek Library is sponsoring our next Tribal activity.
On March 12th 1:00 - 3:00pm, we will be having a Gourd Painting class. 
Gourd art involves creating works of art using hard-shell gourds as an art medium. Gourd surfaces may be carved, painted, sanded, burned, dyed, and polished.

Join us for a panel discussion at the College of Charleston around themes explored in the current exhibition, Dyani White Hawk: Hear Her.
This conversation will include members of the Catawba Indian Nation, Pine Hill Indian Tribe, Wassamasaw Tribe, and Edisto Natchez-Kusso Tribe, as well as CofC faculty. This panel is part of ongoing collaborations between the Halsey Institute and the Women’s and Gender Studies program over the 2021/2022 academic year that will consider intersections between art, performativity, gender, sexuality, race, (post-) colonialism, and power.
The panel will be comprised of
- Beckee Garris, Catawba Nation
- Michelle Wise Mitchum, Pine Hill Indian Tribe
- Lisa Collins, Wassamasaw Tribe of Varnertown Indians
- Dana Muckelvaney, Edisto Natchez-Kusso Tribe of South Carolina

The Goose Creek Library is sponsoring our next Tribal activity.
On February 5th, we will be doing an overview of our Tribal History, and we will discuss our 8 Tribal Bloodlines (Broad, Clark, Varner, Dangerfield, Driggers, Burbage, Huff, and Williams). We will go over the Etiwan, Cherokee, Catawba, Edisto, and other tribal bloodlines that make up the Wassamasaw Indian community native progenitors. 

We will be also doing a cultural activity, applique beading, using our 8 tribal symbols. During that portion we will review the significance of those symbols and what they represent.

This Native American heritage month we continue the tradition of honoring our elders by providing Thanksgiving baskets to our oldest members.

Join Tribal Administrator Lisa Collins and Tribal Secretary Joshua Shumak as they represent the Wassamasaw Tribe on the College of Charleston panel - Rethinking Thanksgiving: The Forgotten Story of Indigenous South Carolina November 17, 3:30-5pm.

With everything going on right now. Asking all tribal members to reach out and check up on our elder members. Some may not be able to get out to the store to get the essential items they need. Let's step up and help them in anyway possible or if they can reach out on the Facebook page. If you see it posted and can help let's do it.

All families please come and assist in cleaning the family plots at Williams Family Cemetery

We will be having a community potluck at Gateway Community Church at 12 pm.  We will be grilling hamburgers and hotdogs.  Please bring a side dish or drink.  Bring something that goes with a picnic/cookout such as pasta salad, potato salad, veggies and fruits, etc.  Also please bring drinks.  All are welcome!

We will be showing the movie Smoke Signals at the Sangaree Public Library at 1 pm.  Please see our event page to RSVP and for more information.  https://www.facebook.com/events/803375406695001/

For a preview, please click the link below.

The Wassamasaw Tribal Exhibit is now on display in the Duke Energy Gallery at the Native American Studies Center at USC-Lancaster.  It will be open until February 15, 2020.  For more details, visit:  https://www.sc.edu/about/system_and_campuses/lancaster/study/student_opportunities/native_american_studies_center/index.php

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The Wassamasaw Tribe of Varnertown Indians was honored tonight by both the Town of Moncks Corner and the City of Goose Creek with proclamations for Native American Heritage Month.  Thanks to all the members that showed up this rainy night and braved the weather to accept our proclamations!  Special thanks to Joey Lawrence and Mary Lawrence for attending the Moncks Corner proclamation presentation!

Contains Images from Reel Injun; Holy Man, and Alaska Jim Crowe which are the movies we will be showing on May 26, 2012

NC Native Unity Conference Objectives: To focus on the 2010 Census to ensure all Native Americans are counted; to encourage harmony and unity among Indian Communities and Individuals; to address legislation affecting Indian people; to address Indian housing as it relates to identifying and meeting the needs of the people; to address Indian economic development including job creations.

The Wassamasaw Tribe of Varnertown Indians submitted their petition to become a State recognized Tribe on April 1, 2009. Ms. Lisa Leach, Ms. Tammy Hutto and Ms. Janie Shumak spent almost a year compiling all of the archival affidavits, historical documents, 150 year history, genealogy, and creating the narratives needed to upgrade our 2005 status as "Group" to the advances status of "Tribe". The petition went through CMA review in May 2009, was voted on by the Native Review Board in July 2009, went through a rigorous verification process in August 2009, and was finalized by a vote of the CMA Board of Directors in October 2009. The State Recognition Ceremony for the Wassamasaw Tribe was held at the Native American Statewide Conference in Columbia on November 5, 2009.

The Salkehatchie Summer Service program assisted 3 Tribal members in home repairs in mid July: Robbie Clark, Samuel Varner, and Betty Lou Risher. A "Thank You" dinner was given for the Salkehatchie youths at the tribal office.