El Camino Real de los Tejas: Crankie Suite by Valerie Fowler Brian Beattie

The GPS location point for the event within the Onion Creek Metropolitan Park is 30°09'53.57"N 97°45'23.74"W

Plan to spend time walking to the event location.

During the Austin Studio Tour in November, American Indian Heritage Month, artist Valerie Fowler and musician Brian Beattie will perform El Camino Real de los Tejas: Crankie Suite at Onion Creek Metropolitan Park on Wednesday, November 10 at 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. The performance is free and open to the public.

This performance is one project that is a part of Oakwood Cemetery Chapel's exhibit, To Relate. To Relate reveals the true homelands of Native American Tribes who were Indigenous to Texas and explains their defined relationships to one another. The exhibit features an original video about the National Park Service Historic Trail that goes through Austin, called El Camino Real de los Tejas. In the video, Archaeologists Sergio and Melinda Iruegas, geographer Steven Gonzales, Nicole Netherton of Travis Audubon, and musician Brian Beattie help us see these familiar places with new eyes and relate the contemporary experience of Austin to the Indigenous experience of Austin. The El Camino Real de los Tejas original Native American trail routes developed into roads and highways, travel through cemeteries, parks and golf courses, and are near high schools, fresh water springs, and recreation areas which are actively used today.

View the online exhibit at AustinTexas.gov/ToRelate

Because this outdoor event includes walking to a location on a trail within a park, it is not ADA accessible, our apologies. We will video the event for a later release.