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Gerry Nolan of Blue Coyote Native American Art & Adventuresat Blue Coyote Trading Postby Bill Weavercourtesy postcardGerry Nolan was passing through Brown County one day in 1972 when his truck broke down outside Needmore. He never left. “I met some people who lived on a local commune and house-sat while they were gone for the winter. In the meantime, I found some construction work, joined the ‘Commune,’ built a house, got married, and then divorced. I was pretty much like everyone else back then.”Gerry is the owner of the Blue Coyote Trading Post in Redbud Terrace at 144 Main Street East in Nashville where he sells Native American art and artifacts. “Some of the arrowheads date back ten thousand years, to pre-Columbian times. Some of the pottery dates back eight hundred years. The beaded vest is Potawatomi, from the 1890s, which is just fantastic, it’s all hand done beadwork.”Gerry opened his shop after 17 years as a construction worker/carpenter when his back gave out. With his last thousand dollars he started Blue Coyote Trading Post. “The first year I lost five thousand, the next year I made five thousand. I evened out in two years. It wasn’t anything like construction pay.“I’ve built a clientele over time. I’ve got more inventory and connections all over the country. I can get just about anything. I’ve picked up new people on the Internet through eBay. If you’re going to stay in business you’ve got to keep up with everything.”Gerry gets his deep knowledge of Native American art from the time he spent as “a fire keeper for two different medicine men, one was Lakota Sioux, and the other was Apache. Through them I met many native people from around the country, and I participated in a lot of Inipi (sweat lodge) ceremonies. “Did you know that it was illegal before 1973 to practice Native-American belief?” he asks me. “When I got involved it was just coming back into our society. I met all these teachers from different tribes. Th
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