40 Days of Giveaways!
Sigh! We completed our 40 Days of Giveaways on May 20, and wish to offer our congratulations to our winners, and also our heartiest THANKS to those of you who thought good things about the Rabbit. The Birthday Celebration continues during this Year of The Dancing Rabbit, so stay tuned for new, exciting events, specials, and parties! Easiest way to do so – sign up for our FREE Stay In The Know monthly newsletter on our Home Page.
By the way, there are several 40 Days of Giveaways winners who haven’t yet contacted us with their mailing addresses for their prizes. As of the end of May, we are going to have SUPPLEMENTAL DRAWINGS to award those prizes to other lucky Rabbit fans. If you want to check the list of winners, just scroll down and click Birthday Winners for a complete list.
If you want in on the supplemental drawings, and neglected to register for the first party, you can do so up until May 31, 2020. Same rules as the first set of drawings.
Yes, prior winners are eligible to win again, and everyone who registered the first time is also eligible to win a supplemental drawing. Yay!

Did you know...?
The Cherokee tribe is the largest in number of registered tribal members in the United States.
The Navajo Nation is the largest geographic land area of any North American tribal land.
The Hopi Nation is completely surrounded on all sides by the Navajo Nation.
The Navajo refer to themselves as Dine (the people) and the word Navajo was a pejorative used by other tribes to describe them.
The current 19 pueblos of New Mexico are all that remains of many pueblos consolidated and removed by the Conquistador incursions of the 1750’s. Each pueblo today has its own designated Federal land.
Because of Federal status, Native American tribes and pueblos are permitted to own and operate gambling casinos on their properties, which is a major revenue contributor for them.
The Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque is owned and operated by the 19 New Mexico pueblos, and includes surrounding land with a gas station, hotel, restaurants, and other areas.
The kachina was used for education and religious purposes by Native Americans of the American Southwest. The Navajo began selling them to tourists in the early 20th century, and were not representative of the true kachina.
Katsima is the accurate word to describe true kachinas used for education and religious purposes – the word kachina is more accurately used to describe Navajo mass-produced tourist-trade kachina dolls.
The kachina was used for education and religious purposes by Native Americans of the American Southwest. The Navajo began selling them to tourists in the early 20th century, and were not representative of the true kachina.
Early fine art of the Southwestern Native Americans was heavily influenced by the petroglyphs found in First American dwellings and caves. The Dorothy Dunn fine art style resulted in the flat two dimensional style of people like Harrison Begay.
Turquoise is a soft gemstone typically found within 100-200 feet of the surface, as it is a precipitated mineral that seeps from the surface and bonds with a stronger matrix like copper under the ground.
Pottery signatures were not common until the early 20th century as tourists began acquiring the pots on vacation trips.
Jewelry hallmarks didn’t become common until the mid-20th century.
Silversmithing was brought to the Southwest by the Spanish Conquistadors in the mid-16th century, and was rapidly adopted by Native American artists.
Two major centers of Native American art of the Southwest are in Scottsdale, AZ and Santa Fe, NM because of the proximity to tribal lands of the artists.
Animals and people figurals were originally forbidden to be included in Navajo pottery.
The first treaty between the United States Government and a Native American tribe was in 1830 with the Choctaw at Dancing Rabbit Creek in Oklahoma.
Horses were introduced to North America by Europeans and were rapidly adopted by plains Indians.
Navajo Hogans always face east so the Navajo can greet the morning with blessings.
Hopi artists represent all Hopi peoples in their art with blank faces.
Pottery as an art form goes back over 5000 years.
Sgraffito is a method of scratching the surface of pottery to create designs.

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