Tribal citizens gathered there at the start of a two-day event to tell Muscogee stories, sing hymns, explain tribal history and give area residents a chance to meet their leaders. Land that once was a village inhabited by an estimated 3,000 people is now the site of a city park with sports fields and a walking trail, said RaeLynn Butler, who manages the nation’s historical and preservation department. The people who lived there were forced to move west in 1836 during the “Trail of Tears,” a brutal journey of about 700 miles (1,125 kilometers) during which many died. (AP) - Native Americans whose ancestors were forced out of the Southeast almost 200 years ago during a purge that cleared the way for white settlers returned Friday for a two-day festival with a name that sums up its purpose: “We have come back.”Ī busload of Muscogee (Creek) Nation citizens and others in vans and cars traveled from their homes in Oklahoma and elsewhere for a celebration in the east Alabama city of Oxford, located on what once was part of Arbeka, a Muscogee community dating back 12,000 years. Hear the full interview with Richard Glover here.OXFORD, Ala. He had the vision we were the renaissance players of Herron's Creek." We were learning to paint and we had to grow something, we had businesses and it was intense - 5 in the morning starts, we ran the shop, worked day and night, and still did scuba diving and sports. He was taking us for 2 hours a day, twice a week to ballroom dancing and we were doing commando training. So what was his early life like? Where did this creative spirit come from ? "Even Bill Clinton came up to me once saying 'I love Moulin Rouge.but Strictly Ballroon !" It still has the record for the most amount sales in a 24 hour period. "When we first showed the film to our only potential distributor we were told 'this is the worst movie I have ever seen' but then we got lucky with the Cannes Film Festival. As a kid I was a ballroom dancer and my mother still is a ballroom dance teacher." ![]() You don't think I get bored of it?' And I think the show has been in my life since I was a child. "There's a line in the movie that says 'I've been with your father for 25 years. But where did the germ of the story come from ? And how did Luhrmann know it was destined for a lifetime of success? Strictly Ballroom began as a 20 minute NIDA performance, became a block buster film and is now being created into a stage musical. "I don't mind criticism, but if you haven't done your homework and you're just easily throwing at it, what you're doing is, you're putting down 300 people, forget me, you're putting down so much effort and so much belief." I mean he was in the moment and I wanted to feel like we were in the moment, that is was the roraring '20's." ![]() Now we imagine, because its a fashionable thing that if you do the '20's, it should be sepia toned, monochromatic with nice jazz music, and that's lovely too, there's nothing wrong with that, but that is a nostalgic view and I thought Fitzgerald wrote that novel without nostalgia. "The use of colour in the 1920's was gawdy. But I'm thankful that I always focus on the audience and they vote with their tickets and I take that very seriously." ![]() "If you do tell stories in your own way, you are going to get that kind of critical crossfire and I always have. So how does he deal with criticism ? Which, most recently particularly with Gatsby, feels never ending - the music, the use of text, the use of colour. "I fell in love with cinema that was expressionistic." "There isn't only one way to cha cha cha", he says, a reference to Strictly Ballroom. ![]() With film successes like 'Strictly Ballroom' (now a stage musical opening next year in Sydney), 'Romeo and Juliet' and 'The Great Gatsby', he is the sort of artist that inspires. And there was great excitement when he arrived at 702 ABC Sydney, notwithstanding the mysterious rash on the back of his legs causing all of us much concern ? Baz Luhrmann is the sort of person everyone wants to meet in the flesh.
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