8th Annual Father’s Day Fiesta
Plaza Guadalupe
Saturday, June 14th, 10am – 3pm
Free event! Games, Food, Fun!
For more information contact (210) 227-3463
Folklife Festival
June 13th,14th,15th
Come out and support AIT! We will be selling frybread
Performances during the event!
For more info contact 210-458-2300
Missions Heritage 5K Run/Walk
Mission San Jose
Sunday, September 14, 7:30 am
Click here
for flyer (MS Word)
Click here
to register
AIT-SCM Holds First Annual Men's Retreat
About 25 participants
from the American Indians in Texas at the Spanish Colonial Missions
attended the first annual Men’s Retreat on November 16-18
of last year. The three day event allowed attendees, ranging in
age from 13 to 55, an opportunity to reflect on their lives and
their community in a rural setting south of San Antonio.
Fishing, hiking, music, and storytelling filled the retreat, which
was modeled on an event held for the last twenty years in Jolon,
California. AIT-SCM members Vicente Escobedo, Michael Cardenas,
and John Vacca recently traveled to Jolon to research ways to implement
such a gathering in south-central Texas. While the Jolon retreat
is usually held at a mission, the AIT retreat was a camp setting,
with few amenities. Members slept primarily in tents.
“The retreat gave us a sense of self-satisfaction by allowing
us to reflect on our lives’ trials and the things we’ve
been through,” said Escobedo, a youth organizer of the retreat.
The high point of the retreat was the construction of a sweat lodge
and corresponding sweat ceremony. Youth participants hiked nearly
two miles to find and ceremonially cut branches from a willow tree
which was used to form the supports for the lodge.
AIT plans to make the retreat an annual event, and the organization
has already been holding regular youth retreats for the past few
years.
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