The 36th Annual Native Peoples Festival and Pow Wow is set for Sept. 5 and 6 at the Indian Spring Hotel/Museum at 1807 Georgia Highway 42 in Flovilla. Sponsored by the Butts County Historical Society, the festival will be held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day and tours of the hotel museum are included. The cost of admission is $5 for adults. Admission is free for those 17 and younger. Robert Redhawk Eldridge will serve as master of ceremonies. Bernice and Rick Bottchenbaugh will lead the dancers and Silver Ridge Drum and Dance Troupe will entertain in full regalia. Jim Sawgrass, a historian of the southeastern tribes of Florida, Georgia and Alabama of Muscogee Creek (Mvskoke) descent, will also be in attendance. People from different Nations will be on hand to tell stories, dance inNative American regalia and play traditional Native American music. Vendors will feature arts, crafts, demonstrations and native foods like fry bread and roasted corn. Vendors will have Native American arts and crafts for sale and demonstration. The Indian Springs Hotel/ Museum, built by Chief William McIntosh in 1823, will be open for tours. McIntosh’s ancestor Gary McIntosh will be a special guest at the event. For more information about the festival, call Trina Mansfield at 770-655-5905. Scenes from the final round of the PGA Tour's Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta on August 30, 2026. (Photos: Dave Quick) Click for more.PHOTOS: Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club, Final…
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