Arnold will play flute and tell his life story from birth on the reservation, to mission schools to migrant work and serving in the military.

Where and When: Sunday, April 29, 2018
5:00-7:00 pm at the Methow Valley Interpretive Center

Arnold Cleveland

Arnold Cleveland, a Wenatchi band descendant and member of the Colville Confederated Tribes, shares stories about growing up as a native on and off the reservation. When Cleveland was an infant, his mother worked the packing sheds with Arnold by her side tucked into a wooden apple box. She would nudge the box down the line as she worked. Cleveland’s childhood included time in the Indian boarding school, St. Mary’s Mission, where he traveled with his family on the “fruit tramp circuit”. As an adult, Cleveland straddled the Indian and white worlds serving in the military and becoming a supervisor in the fruit packing sheds.