QUANAH, Texas (KAMR/KCIT) – According to its organizers, the second annual Quanah Medicine Mounds Gathering will begin at 8 a.m. on Friday and run through Saturday and include a range of locations, speakers, and events.

Tickets and registration are available here, according to organizers, and the schedule for the weekend gathering included:

Friday, June 10

  • 8 a.m. – Narrated bus tour of historic sites
  • 1 p.m. – 5 p.m. – At This Place History Conference at the Quanah High School Auditorium, with speakers including:
    • Mark Woommavovah, Chairman of the Comanche Nation;
    • Shane Lance, local author and historian;
    • Bill Neeley, author of The Last Comanche Chief;
    • Dustin Tahmahkera, Ph.D., great-great-grandson of Quanah Parker and professor of Native American cultural studies at the University of Oklahoma;
    • Kathryn Briner, Ph.D., Director of the Comanche Nation Language Department
  • 6 p.m. – 8:45 p.m. – Doug Stone in Concert with Brison Bursey

Saturday, June 11

  • 7 a.m. – 9 a.m. – Benefit breakfast and art exhibit for Save Star House
    • Quanah Country Club
  • 2 p.m. – Quanah Parker Society Powwow with the Oklahoma City Powwow Club
    • Quanah Ag Building/rodeo arena near the airport

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