Indian Summer Festival
Indian summer festival
Indian Summer Festival is the brainchild of Butch Roberts, a Milwaukee Police Officer. In
1985, his dream was to have an American Indian Festival to add to the other ethnic festivals
that were being held on the Summerfest grounds, Henry Maier Festival Park. Roberts
recruited the Warren and DeNomie families to organize the event. These three families were
instrumental in getting Indian Summer off the ground.
It took two years of planning and organizational assistance from Irish Fest to kick off Indian
Summer's first festival in 1987. The festival received a $5,000.00 grant from The Milwaukee
Foundation and a cash loan from the Klumb family to provide funding for the first event. The
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