Dale Carson has received the Tomaquag Museum's Lifetime Achievement Award
The Tomaquag Museum, Rhode Island's only museum dedicated to telling the story of the state's Indigenous Peoples, recently awarded Indian Life's Native Cooking columnist with their Lifetime Achievement Award.
Dale Carson, of the Abenaki tribe, was born and raised near the water in Rhode Island. Both parents were artists so her home life was rich in books and artwork and Dale found her own niche in painting and doing crafts. She has had two retail shops featuring Native American goods, paintings, supplies and antiques. In the early 1990s, she and her mother made dream catchers with natural grapevine. They were sold in over one hundred shops across the country.
Dale erected a tipi on a large field on her land for local school children to learn a little about Native American lifeways-an experience many of those people still talk about as adults.
Cooking demonstrations over open fire were another endeavor at various locations, including at the Institute for American Indian Studies in Washington. From 1981 to the present, Dale has written four published books and numerous short stories, as well as Native food and cooking columns for three Native American publications.
