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History
Dancing Leaf Cultural Learning Center offers a unique blend of educational and
recreational opportunities. An earthen lodge from the time period of 800-1300
years ago has been reconstructed. A tour of this and other archeological
information and artifacts is covered in a 90 minute daily tour.
Dancing Leaf is located on 115 acres of cedar covered canyons along the Medicine
Creek and includes a spring fed lake, many scenic trails and natural springs.
Cottonwood
The Tree with the Dancing Leaves
Voices of the Spirits live in the wind.
When the spirit voices are strong, the
leaves of all the trees rustle. When the
spirit voices whisper, only the cotton-
wood listens. Its leaves dance with the
slightest of breeze.
One thousand years ago in Southwest Nebraska, there lived small groups of Native Americans known to archeologists as the Upper Republican Culture. These people lived in earthen lodges and farmed along Medicine Creek and are thought to be ancestors to the Pawnee. Some may feel that their way of life was harsh, but their ability to live as one with nature gave them a spiritual outlook on life that few have ever experienced. Dancing Leaf is in a setting of prairie hills along the banks of the Medicine Creek that we have tried to recapture a feeling of closeness to nature and inner strength that can best be experienced through this simple way of life.
Les and Jan Hosick
6100 East Opal Springs Road
Wellfleet, Nebraska 69170
Phone 308-963-4233