Native dance team draws crowd to Maytag Park

Native American dancer Butch McIntosh stamps and twirls about, the colorful feathers and fabric of his regalia shaking as he moves in time with the steady thump of the hand drum. Children in the audience look on, some with mouths agape or with furrowed brows, not quite sure what to think of coming face to face with something many have only seen in movies. But by the time the question and answer session rolls around, the same kids are all too eager to ask about eagle feathers, or buffalo jaws. McIntosh and the rest of the Native American dancers in the Oklahoma Masonic Indian Degree Team performed at Maytag Park Saturday morning, treating the crowd to a taste of their cultural heritage. Feathers shaking, bells jingling and drum thumping, t