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A pow wow reaches deep into the past

Our Labor Day Weekend Powwow is a traditional one,” said Carol Welsh, Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate, executive director of the Native American Indian Center of Central Ohio. “The original intention of the pow wow was to express our culture and spirituality. But sometimes contest pow wows have such a long list of categories to get through, they can’t fit in giveaways, honor dances and other ceremonies. We take the time for them.”

Schemitzun canceled

MASHANTUCKET, Conn. – The economic downturn has hit the biggest summer pow wow on the East Coast.

Native Youth Alliance copes with inaugural pow wow adversity

WASHINGTON – For many American Indians, the Jan. 19 pow wow held in the nation’s capital by the American Indian Society of Washington, D.C. was a source of great pride. But for the founders of the Native Youth Alliance, a grassroots organization that strives to improve the health and well-being of young Natives, the event was a time of unwanted adversity.

Pow wow marketing 101

In American Indian culture, the pow wow has long stood as a way to celebrate Native customs.

If these events are well-attended, dancers feel a greater sense of appreciation, tribal members feel honored and vendors stand to make more profit. If these events have a low turnout the collective self-esteem of the tribe may suffer, vendors may have difficulty making ends meet and the outside public cannot benefit from the richness of learning about American Indian culture.

Northern California Native wins first Miss Indian World title for tribe

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Brooke Grant, from Los Angeles and Hoopa, Calif. and member of the Hoopa, Yurok, Karuk and Chippewa tribes, was crowned Miss Indian World at the 26th Annual Gathering of Nations.

Healing Powwow

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. – When attending a pow wow, many are coming together for a celebration of culture, prayer, ceremony, songs, dancing and goodwill. To others, a pow wow is a gathering of old friends and a chance to reconnect with people you only see a few times a year.

Lakota ledger art selected for pow wow poster

BISMARCK, N.D. – A work of contemporary ledger art has been selected to represent the 40th Annual United Tribes International Powwow. “We Protect our Families” is a work by artist Tom Haukaas, Rosebud Lakota.

The past endures in a present-day pow wow

DENVER – Once a trade route, always a trade route, or so it seems along the eastern foothills of the Rocky Mountains, where contemporary pow wows recall the rendezvous of old that joined trappers, traders, Plains Natives, and a few European visitors for days of selling, feasting and fun.