'Outstanding’, ‘Great Fun’, 'Highly Entertaining’ and 'Eye-Opening’ are some of the words used to describe Native American Presentations by Maka-Tai-Meh.
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Maka-Tai-Meh offers instructional and informative demonstrations of his Abenaki-Mesquakii and Tsimshian heritage with a showman’s flair for capturing the audience’s attention. His presentations can be customized for any group, organization or educational level. Maka-Tai-Meh has created a themed show specifically for pre-school age groups.
Native American Presentations include:
- Artifacts and Native crafts are also a part of the presentations with
hands-on activities for the audience.
ABOUT THE PRESENTER
Maka-Tai-Meh has over fifty years teaching experience and holds a Master of Fine Arts degree. He has taught Native American cultural classes for the past twelve years under the US Federal Government's Title VI, V, and IX Indian education programs.
Maka-Tai-Meh has performed at the Heard Museum, the Southwest Museum of Native American Art, the Gene Autry Museum of Western Heritage, The San Diego Museum of Man, and literally hundreds of dubs, libraries, schools and colleges in the southwestern states. He has been called "the consummate story teller." He is the author of four published books on Native American stories and legends and in late 2004-05 will publish three more books in the same genre: a Native novel of mystery and suspense, a children’s fantasy book and a collection of Eskimo children’s stories.
ABOUT THE PROGRAMS:
Maka-Tai-Meh’s Native American Presentations are from two major Cultural areas: The Northwest Coast Tribes and the Woodland Algonquin speaking tribes.
There is also a special program covering several tribes, nations and cultural areas. All program pre-sentations are one full hour. These special classes may be adapted by the presenter to meet the particular curricular needs of a school program in such areas as social studies, science, language arts, gifted programs, arts-crafts, multi-cultural studies, environmental studies, history and literature.
Maka-Tai-Meh typically acts as a solo presenter. A two- and three-person program, which includes members of his family and other tribes, is available that includes a Native American fashion show displaying the regalia and styles of several American and Canadian nations.
