Tuesday, December 21, 1999
Indian lifestyle studied
With grant, Imago builds a village
BY MARK SCHMETZER
Enquirer Contributor
Imago Inc. has spent the past two decades trying to, according to a brochure, “create a new vision of human presence within the earth community, drawing on earth-centered traditions and a bioregional consciousness.”
But, according to Chris Clements, director of the 8-acre Imago Earth Center in Price Hill, “the big stuff” only started happening in the past two years.
Mr. Clements, 25, expects that to continue after Imago received a grant of $23,574 from the environmental education fund of the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency. The money will be used to expand the center's environmental education through the Woodland Indians project.
Plans are to recruit volunteers from middle and high schools to help build an area that would resemble communities in which American Indians of this area, such as the Shawnee and Miami tribes, lived between 1500 and 1700. s.
Mr. Clements expects the community to include three wigwams as well as food drying racks, a garden, a pond site and a garbage pit. Some of the money already has been used to buy American Indian artifacts, Mr. Clements said. The exhibit is to be ready by September, in time for the new school year, Mr. Clements said.
“We'd like to have a hunting area, a cooking area and a living area,” Mr. Clements said.
Imago also plans to develop a curriculum that will allow staff naturalists to use Indian practices as examples of natural resource conservation methods.
“Our teaching is a mixture of giving information and having fun,” said Mr. Clements. “We have a lot of hands-on activities.
“We already do Indian activities, and they're our most popular, but it's not as well organized as we'd like. That's why we wrote the proposal.”
The Native American Homestead is one of several environmental education programs operated by Imago, a nonprofit organization started 20 years ago by Eileen and Jim Schenk of Price Hill. The center, which Imago started six years ago, is visited regu larly by Scout troops and elementary school classes for programs that usually last about two hours and might include hikes and games.
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