2011 BARTER FAIR SPRING DATES

14^TH Annual

Old Time Trading Circle

SCOTIA ROAD SITE

Talent Show Saturdays
$100 prize

LIVE MUSIC all weekends

$20 ENTRY PER PERSON ALLWEEKEND / $10 PER PERSON ONE DAY

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May 6-8 & June 3-5, 2011

We gather peacefully to strengthen our community and to help each other!

DIRECTIONS TO THE SITE: From Highway 2 from Spokane, right (South) on Scotia Road, after first stop sign look for a farm with old buses and trucks on the right, site is on the left side of the road about a half-mile further - look for Old Time Trading Circle signs. LIVE MUSIC all weekend / Drum Circle. Bring camping gear, food and water. Admission only $20 per person for the weekend, or $10 per person for one day. UPDATES see www.oldtimetradingcircle.com

info phone 509-233-0193

DA RULZ: NO ALCOHOL / NO DRUGS / NO VIOLENCE / DOGS MUST BE LEASHED and have proof of immunization. RESPECT MOTHER EARTH: PACK IT IN - PACK IT OUT. The folks who welcome us on their land ask us to respect the rights of our neighbors by staying in the circle and on the property. Fires, if safety conditions allow, must be contained in a burn barrel or other metal container. A shovel and a five gallon bucket of water should be at hand. Bring your own firewood if possible and do not venture onto neighbors land to gather wood. Please use the toilet facilities provided.

Keeping Traditions Alive

During the mountain man era, St. Louis fur trader William Ashley organized an annual rendezvous or meeting with his fur trappers at a designated location in the West. At the rendezvous the trappers exchanged their beaver pelts for new supplies. These meetings took place during the summer when the trapping season was slow. Trappers, American Indians, and Ashley looked forward to these gatherings in the wilderness. The first rendezvous was held in 1825 and continued each year until 1840.

The Old Time Trading Circle calls together a diverse group of people interested in this old form of commerce as a living present day activity. Trade or barter is the center of our circle. The closer we can come to this center, the closer we come to each other in a real way. Cash transactions are impersonal and final. We know the price of everything and the value of nothing. Trade connects us to each other in an ancient relationship of mutual trust and respect. We need things and have or make things that others need, but mostly we need each other. We talk, we trust, we trade, we form a community of people, a family learning to live in peace and help each other. We all sometimes need cash to exist in the larger society and keep our gas tanks full, but if we are open to barter relationships, our need for cash will diminish, and our need for community will grow.

Honoring All Our Relations

Everything being related to everything else is the foundation of all culture and life. It defines and unites all people, wherever we are. A phrase borrowed from Indian people says it best: “All my relations.” It is an acknowledgment and description of our place in this world and a prayer to keep in mind our relationship to all that is.

We come together in a sacred circle, the common ground we share with each other and with the plants and animals, rocks and trees that live on the land. Respecting the land and all its inhabitants is the same as respecting ourselves, for we are all connected. We meet in our trade circle to affirm and strengthen our connection with the earth, Turtle Island, and with each other. We welcome the stranger in our midst with anticipation of making new friends and widening our circle.

We respect the land by leaving our campsites better than we found them, packing out our trash and the trash that may have been left by others. We respect the land by bringing our own firewood or gathering deadfall, making our campfires safe, having shovels and water at hand for constructing our fires and putting them out completely when we leave. We do not cut living trees for our own convenience, or disturb the creatures, including our human neighbors, that live near our camp.

We respect each other by extending the hospitality of our campfires to friends and strangers, sharing what we know and learning from each other.

W A G E P E A C E

www.oldtimetradingcircle.org