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Bran, seated in a very modern-looking wheelchair, powwows with Littlefinger.

Conference rooms are not where powwows take place (even if you serve frybread).

The tone of those powwows seems to have informed his choices as president.

He also allowed prisoners to travel overnight to powwows and other Native ceremonies.

Don't come to powwows and touch anyone's regalia or take photos without asking. 39.

Powwows are adaptable, often defined by the gathering within a location, rather than the location itself.

Trump confidante Omarosa escorted both men upstairs for their powwows with the future commander-in-chief.

Ms. Swan has adopted the Mi'kmaw name Nastasi and attends Mi'kmaw powwows dressed in traditional regalia.

Powwows are celebrations of our Indigenous cultures, which include dance (in regalia, not "costumes"), food, art, music, etc.

Something that my father talked about a lot was just being on the road, the time between powwows.

To fans, the midmatch mother-son powwows have become one of the game's most reliable and endearing spectacles.

They are near-ubiquitous at festivals, fairs, and powwows, any place indigenous communities and fondness for Mexican food overlap.

Referring to "powwows" and "spirit animals," as well as claiming dubious Native heritage, all can be seen as offensive.

Horsechief has 18 years of culinary experience and travels all over Oklahoma on the weekends, selling at festivals and powwows.

The Fancy Dance, from the Oklahoma tribes, is popular in competition at powwows, where dancers are judged on their rhythm and regalia.

A shift to cleaner cars has been a common refrain in automakers' recent reports, and at industry powwows like the Shanghai Auto Show.

So Billiot carried out her research slowly and deliberately, sitting at marinas where the boats docked, attending powwows and having lunch with anyone who asked.

He kept lines of communication open between 10 and 11 Downing Street during Tony Blair's premiership, holding secret powwows with Gordon Brown's team in a greasy-spoon café.

CreditCreditJeenah Moon for The New York Times The Round Dance, a Native American dance of friendship, happens at powwows and other gatherings of Indigenous people all over the country.

We see his likeness repeated, on posters that line the country roads and on banners at revolutionary powwows, and finally witness him in a jungle setting, addressing his fellow revolutionary soldiers.

Will got into powwows as a boy, singing and dancing; his grandfather gave him the claw of a black bear for protection, and he kept a collection of more than 20 pairs of Air Jordans.

The shots of forests, mountains, and highways are sung over with stories from powwows by Hopinka's father — who, like the artist, is a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation — and transcribed, on screen, in phonetic lettering.

Last August, in a steamy yellow school bus turned food truck, Albert Schafer prepared burgers, hot dogs and fry bread for hungry customers at Wolf Point's Wadopana celebration, one of the oldest traditional powwows in Montana.

In the summer of 2015, Friedman travelled to powwows on the Swinomish Reservation in Washington, the Coeur d'Alene Reservation in Idaho, and Crow Agency Reservation in Montana, where she met with Native American Fancy dancers and drummers.

And so, as this virus continues to spread, it feels important to state the stakes as we see them: Powwows have been canceled, and casinos are closed up; community houses have bolted their doors, and colleges have sent their students home.

She's done solo TV appearances on Ellen and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, had powwows with the likes of Meryl Streep and Barack Obama (both of whom she calls "very sweet"), and even gone from fangirl to friend of Miley Cyrus.

Inevitably, he appeared at gatherings of the poets of the New York School, at the gallery openings of artists like Jasper Johns and Larry Rivers, and at the downtown powwows where argonauts of the avant-garde like Rudy Burckhardt, Merce Cunningham and John Cage breathed the same rarefied air.

The train moves and you think of your dad and how he took you to that powwow after the divorce, how he had never taken you before, when you were younger, and you wonder if it was your mom and her Christianity, the reason you didn't go to powwows or do more Indian things.

" Howarth explained his stance on the Jeff Blair radio show Tuesday, saying that he has tried to refrain from using Native American team names since receiving a letter from a First Nations listener from Northern Ontario following the Jays' 1992 World Series triumph over the Atlanta Braves: "Jerry," he recalled the man writing, "I appreciate your work, but in the World Series, it was so offensive to have the tomahawk chop and to have people talk about the 'powwows on the mound' and then the Cleveland Indians logo and the Washington Redskins.

Abenaki singers are often featured at seasonal Native American powwows.

An intertribal powwow.The song can be heard at protests and intertribal powwows. It has become particularly popular in the north-east. At powwows, the song is used to warm up and "open the drum".

Social gatherings known as "powwows" (or wacipis in Lakota/Dakota) continue to be an important part of Native American culture and are held regularly throughout the state. Throughout Native American history, powwows were held, usually in the spring, to rejoice at the beginning of new life and the end of the winter cold. These events brought Native American tribes together for singing and dancing and allowed them to meet with old friends and acquaintances, as well as to make new ones. Many powwows also held religious significance for some tribes.

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"Ho-Chunk Powwows: Innovation and Tradition in a Changing World." The Wisconsin Magazine of History, Vol. 91, No. 3 (Spring, 2008), pp. 28-41Loew, Patty.

In 2011, Grand Ronde Canoe Journey, an exhibit about the tribe's canoe traditions, was installed at the Willamette Heritage Center. Every year the reservation hosts powwows and a Round Dance.

Besides buffalo, elk, and deer hides, the Mandan also used ermine and white weasel hides for clothing.Pritzker 337 Today, Mandan people wear traditionally inspired clothing and regalia at powwows, ceremonies, and other significant events.

It was unknown then. But today over 13,000 skiers race every year. It is one of Hayward's largest and most popular tourist attractions. The Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Ojibwe host several powwows throughout the year.

The Wiens had six children. The family visited art galleries, attended powwows, and played music at home. Robin Poitras is second of the six children. She inherited all of her father's books as well as a violin and mandolin.

The Tamástslikt Cultural Institute holds Kids Day Camps, Craft Lessons, a Community Academy, Kids Powwows, and other special events on a seasonal basis. Tamástslikt also frequently hosts guest lectures that range from related museum work to sustainability and economics.

By the time he had finished high school, he had a number of achievements to his name. He was the captain of both the football team and the baseball team, he was named valedictorian and outstanding graduate of the class of 1949, and he performed in a piano recital that took place at the University of Oklahoma. Although Ballard was trained in the style of Western music, he was deeply rooted in the music and dance traditions of his culture. As a child, he often participated in powwows, and he would continue to participate in powwows into his years as a young adult.

Today, powwows are still a part of the Native American culture and are attended by Natives and non-Natives alike. In North Dakota, the United Tribes International Powwow held each September in the capital of Bismarck, is one of the largest powwows in the United States. A pow wow is an occasion for parades and Native American dancers in regalia, with many dancing styles presented. It is traditional for male dancers to wear regalia decorated with beads, quills, and eagle feathers; male grass dancers wear colorful fringe regalia, and male fancy dancers wear brightly colored feathers.

In modern powwows, women play a vital role as backup singers and dancers.Heth, "Overview" in the Garland Encyclopaedia of World Music, pp. 370–372 The Cherokee people, for example, hold dances before stickball games. At these pre-game events, men and women perform separate dances and follow separate regulations.

For many decades, the tribe has studied a variety Native American tribes. He also coordinates the tribe's powwows, workshops and induction. Mountain Man: The tribe also promotes camping and outdoor activities. The mountain man's duties include promoting Camp Tahquitz to Scouts whose troops have signed up to go to summer camp.

Designs and colors may be significant to particular clans within the tribes. Specific patterns are passed from mother to daughters within families. Design elements can include floral designs, diamonds, stepped diamonds, crescents, hearts, circles, and double-curves. Today ribbon work can be seen on dance regalia at tribal ceremonies and powwows.

Agency Village is an unincorporated census-designated place in Roberts County, South Dakota, United States. It is the headquarters of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate and home to Sisseton Wahpeton College. The village hosts a number of powwows, one of which is held annually just before Independence Day. This outdoor powwow draws a large number of tourists to the area.

As a child she attended and competed in powwows regularly. Since junior through high school she was active on basketball and softball leagues. At age 15 she picked up boxing, and began to be coached by a friend of her mother's Domingo Tall Dog. Reis later went to school for criminology and also learned how to fix motorcycles at MTTI.

These changes allowed Native peoples to perform their religion and dances openly, rather than in secret. By the 1930s peyotism and powwows were dominant forces in Kiowa life and belief. Laura E. Smith, “Homeland,” 12 Tribal leaders were increasingly taking charge of Indian fairs, using them as opportunities for economic advancement and a place to openly perform and celebrate dances. Poolaw photographed many of these events.

They are characterized by relaxed vocals and a narrow range. Apache-derived peyote songs, prayers in the Native American Church, use a descending melody and monophony. Rattles and water drums are used, in a swift tempo. The Sun Dance and Grass Dance of the plains are the roots of intertribal powwows, which feature music with terraced descent and nasal vocals, both Plains characteristic features.

The Annual Powwow is held at the "Flying Eagle Memorial Pow-wow Grounds" the first weekend of July (Saturday and Sunday). It is located on the Nepisiguit River, upriver from Bathurst.The Powwow honors the Mi’gmag heritage with traditional Aboriginal dancing, singing, arts, crafts, foods, and contemporary entertainment. Powwows are considered to be both sacred and a social event, where Aboriginal families renew their bonds and celebrate their ancestral beliefs and traditions.

He went to numerous powwows, but he could never find a map that depicted all of the tribes. Instead, he typically found maps that depicted 50 to 100 tribes. He told Rick Smith writing for Win Awenen Nisitotung that When he was younger, he described himself as a "radical youngster" who was involved in Native American causes and protested Columbus Day. He is a member of the American Indian Movement.

Stick game set Bag with 65 Inlaid Gambling Sticks, Tsimshian, 19th century Handgame predates recorded history. The oral tradition tells us that people originally learned Handgame from the animals. Historical documentation states that games were once played for land use and female companionship, and later on for horses and cattle. Today, handgame is played during traditional gatherings, powwows, tribal celebrations, and more recently in tournaments hosted by individual tribes or Indian organizations.

He was then elected Chief of the Siksika Nation from 1981 to 1983. He later served as the chair of the Siksika police commission. Additionally, Little Chief was a founding member of the Blackfoot A1 Drum Group, which performed at powwows and other cultural events throughout Canada and the United States. In 2002, Roy Little Chief was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal for his activism on behalf of Canadian First Nations.

In some traditional songs, women sing one octave above the men, though they do not sing the first time the song is sung or the lead line at any time. Percussion among the Dakota use drums, sometimes with syncopation. In competition songs, beats start off as an irregular ruffle and are then followed by a swift regular beat. The Dakota Flag Song begins special events, such as powwows, and is not accompanied by a dance.

The Wake Singers, band of Oglala Lakota musicians Many music genres span multiple tribes. Pan- tribalism is the syncretic adoption of traditions from foreign communities. Since the rise of the United States and Canada, Native Americans have forged a common identity, and invented pan-Indian music, most famously including powwows, peyote songs, and the Ghost Dance. The Ghost Dance spread throughout the Plains tribes in the 1890s and many songs are sung today.

Lumbee patchwork is a traditional Lumbee craft. Drawing on the abundant flora around them, they worked the Long Leaf Pine cone into a design for their blankets, rugs, and clothing. Patchwork can be seen at the UNCP Native American Resource Center, powwows, cultural events, quilting bees, and culture classes around Robeson County. In 1993, the Lumbee patchwork dress was recreated for Miss Lumbee Natascha Wagoner, who was chosen as the 8th Miss Indian USA.

Robert Taylor was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1951 and lived there his entire life, other than his time in the Navy starting in 1970. Some of Taylor's earliest inspiration came from his family. His maternal grandfather exposed him to Native traditions by taking him to powwows and his maternal uncle was a well-known wildlife painter. Taylor graduated from Will Rogers High School in 1969, where he played baseball and football.

At the start of the 20th century, the Shinnecock were described as "daring seamen," and "furnishin[g] efficient recruits to the United States Life Saving Service" (Coast Guard). Every Labor Day Weekend since 1946, the reservation hosts a powwow, based on ceremonies beginning in 1912. The Shinnecock Powwow is ranked by USA Today as one of the ten great powwows held in the United States. In 2008 the powwow attracted 50,000 visitors.

A group called The Youngblood Singers was formed. Dedicated to learning traditional Algonquian songs, chants, and drum rituals, they travel throughout the Northeast performing at powwows and drum contests. The Cultural Enrichment Program is a sharing and learning process that the community has engaged in to ensure that the ideals and traditions of their ancestors are passed down through the generations. It involves sharing knowledge of food, clothing, arts, crafts, dance, ceremonies, and language.

The spectacle is described on the Wind River Country's tourism website, telling prospective visitors, "If you close your eyes for a second the music will sweep you away. Drumming and singing accompanies all dancing and the drumbeat is considered sacred, representing the heartbeat of the tribe. Each thumping note carries songs to the Great Spirit, along with the prayers of the people." The website also advertises the powwows as being free admission.

Hoop dance is usually called the "entertaining dance" in the Native American tribes. These kinds of dramatic dances are staples of Indian performances for non-Indian audiences, but are rare at powwows in Indian Country. Because the complexity of hoop dance, it takes years of practice remain the exceptions. The inventor of modern hoop dance, Tony White Cloud, popularized it to America by performing it in the movie Valley of the Sun in 1942.

At the 4th annual South Bayfront Powwow dance and ceremony on August 2, 2015, The Soaring Eagles performed the Gourd Dance- the first of many performances to come. The event spanned over two days and celebrated Native American culture through dances, songs, prayers, etc. Powwows like the South Bayfront Powwow are community events that feel like family gatherings. Everyone is welcome to join in the festivities and watch the Soaring Eagles perform.

Bills such as the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975 have allowed the Pawnee Nation to regain some of its self-government. The Pawnee continue to practice cultural traditions, meeting twice a year for the intertribal gathering with their kinsmen the Wichita Indians. They have an annual four-day Pawnee Homecoming for Pawnee veterans in July. Many Pawnee also return to their traditional lands to visit relatives and take part in scheduled powwows.

It brings in additional income from the rental of its entertainment and meeting spaces. The museum serves as a cultural center for the 10,000 American Indians residing in the Wichita metropolitan area, who represent seventy-two unique tribes from the Plains and other areas. The center hosts powwows and other cultural events. In 2011, the Mid-America All-Indian Center launched the first annual American Indian Festival, which is modeled after the Red Earth Festival held in Oklahoma City.

She attended powwows with her maternal uncle and admired the paintings he collected from his neighbor George Geoinety. At age 13, she left home and went to Apache to work for her aunt as a switchboard operator. She worked the night shift at the telephone company and attended school during the day. Her best friend was Comanche and she spent many weekends at her home, absorbing aspects of Comanche culture from her mother, one of the first Comanche nurses.

She says that traditional designs of her tribe would, "reflect what the people saw, and what they had going on in their lives at the time ... maybe somebody in their family had gone to war or battle." Fogarty has won best of class four times at the Santa Fe Indian Market. She also dances at powwows in regalia created by her family over the course of seven years. As of 2006, she lived in North San Juan, California.

Founded in 2007 by medicinal chemist Dr. Charles Thompson, spectrUM is dedicated to teaching science through hands-on exhibits and activities. spectrUM regularly moves travelling exhibits and activities to unexpected locations like restaurants, parks, powwows and festivals. It invites Montanans to try science through its “Science. Try it” campaign. spectrUM also has a website with online science experiments and podcasts of Dr. Katie George's “Science is Cool”, which is regularly broadcast on KUFM Montana Public Radio.

Generally, members must pay dues; attend tribal meetings (which are usually monthly in the "home" areas); volunteer to serve as a tribal officer when asked; help to put on tribal events; belong to the tribal church (if one exists and they are able); teach their children their people's history and pass on traditional crafts; volunteer to represent the tribe at the Virginia Council on Indians, the United Indians of Virginia, or at other tribes' powwows; speak at engagements for civic or school groups; and live in a good way, so as to best represent their tribe and Native Americans in general. Most Indian tribes maintain some traditions from before the time of European settlement, and are keen to pass these on to their children. Although Indians are also highly involved in non- native culture and employment, they regularly engage in activities for their individual tribes, including wearing regalia and attending powwows, heritage festivals, and tribal homecomings. Individuals try to maintain a balance between elements of their traditional culture and participating in the majority culture.

Turkey Tailfeather Woman was a Dakota woman who is said to have given the Drum Dance to the Anishinaabe people. The Drum Dance is a set of spiritual beliefs that center on Turkey Tailfeather Woman and her escape from the American military, after which she built a large drum while in hiding. The religion spread throughout a large swathe of North America after about 1877. The drum used in the Drum Dance is the forerunner of the large drum used in modern powwows.

During this period of his life, Ballard struggled with his identity. With his mother, he lived what could have been described as a typical American life-style with little spiritual or cultural guidance. In school, he was often forced to draw tom-toms and tomahawks by the teacher, and the other students would often taunt, harass, and throw stones at him. While living with his grandmother, though, he attended Baptist Mission School and took part in powwows as well as other community festivals.

Robin Poitras is the second child of architect Clifford Wiens and artist and educator Patricia Wiens. The family visited art galleries, attended powwows, and played music at home. She said she began her artistic life studying the cello but always loved to dance. In her twenties, Poitras completed a B.F.A. (Special Honours) in dance at York University, where she came to feel disillusioned and discouraged with her program, until the day Paul-André Fortier made an appearance: > I was getting really frustrated.

She entered some beaded flaps for a pair of Kickapoo moccasins and was awarded second place. The following year in 1995 she entered the same show and got first place. One of Coser’s most notable works is an otterskin bag that is currently owned by the Philbrook Museum in Tulsa, OK. Coser and her husband were also very involved with powwows because of their love of dance. They traveled to Wisconsin several times to visit with fellow Great Lakes people.

This same period also saw the rise of Native American powwows around the start of the 20th century. These were large-scale intertribal events featuring spiritual activity and musical performances, mostly group percussion based (Means, 594). Large-scale immigration of Eastern European Jews and their klezmer music peaked in the first few decades of the 20th century. People like Harry Kandel and Dave Tarras become stars within their niche, and made the United States the international center for klezmer (Broughton, 583).

The Native Americans lived on the sea and each year they would hold two large powwows at Mount Multnomah, one in the spring and one in the fall. The demigod Koyoda Spielei lived among them and settled disputes among the living things of the earth, including the mountains Pa-toe (Adams) and Yi-east (Hood), sons of the Great Spirit Soclai Tyee. For many years, peace prevailed over the land. Then a beautiful squaw mountain moved to the valley between Pa-toe and Yi-east.

Native Americans in the United States had no indigenous traditions of classical music, nor a secular song tradition. Their music is spiritual in nature, performed usually in groups in a ritual setting important to Native American religion. It was not until the 1890s that Native American music began to enter the American establishment. At the time, the first pan-tribal cultural elements, such as powwows, were being established, and composers like Edward MacDowell and Henry Franklin Belknap Gilbert used Native themes in their compositions.

Okuma was born in Glendale, California and lived the first years of her life in Los Angeles where her mother, successful painter and bead artist Sandra Okuma (Luiseño/Shoshone-Bannock), worked as a graphic designer for MCA Records. When Okuma was five, her family moved to the La Jolla Indian Reservation in Pauma Valley, California. At this time, Okuma began learning beadwork, encouraged by her mother. As a child and teenager, Okuma beaded her own dance regalia for powwows and earned money sewing regalia for others.

The Cowgirls 'N Angels soundtrack is filled with young country pop artists many of whom are from Oklahoma including Amber Hayes, Maggie McClure, Susan Herndon, Caitlin Rose, The Powwows, and Kim DiVine. An original composition Always There For Me performed by Richie McDonald, formerly of the band Lonestar, and Amber Hayes, as part of the father daughter motif is included both in the soundtrack as well as performed in the film's honky tonk sequence. The Soundtrack is available digitally on iTunes, Amazon.com, Google Play, and many other digital outlets.

Once the site of Indian gatherings, or "powwows", it has views to Maine and Cape Ann. Amesbury is the second northernmost town in Massachusetts, its northernmost point coming just south of the northernmost point of the state, in Salisbury. Amesbury lies along the northern banks of the Merrimack River and is bordered by Salisbury to the east, Newburyport to the southeast, West Newbury to the southwest, Merrimac to the west, and South Hampton, New Hampshire, to the north. The Powwow River bisects the town, joined by the Back River near the town center.

They organized annual powwows, carrying them on until the mid-1930s, during the Great Depression. In 1977 the tribe revived the annual event. Later they built a museum in honor of their heritage, to teach their children and other Americans. Sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979, and associated with the Indian River Community, include: the Robert Davis Farmhouse, Harmon School, Isaac Harmon Farmhouse, Harmony Church, Ames Hitchens Chicken Farm, Indian Mission Church, Indian Mission School, Johnson School, Coursey and Daisey Indian Burial Ground and Warren T. Wright Farmhouse Site.

Christian Parrish Takes the Gun, known professionally as Supaman is an Apsáalooke rapper and fancy dancer who was born in Seattle, Washington and grew up in Crow Agency, Montana. The child of struggling alcoholics, he spent part of his childhood in foster care before being raised by his mother. He began DJing in the 90s after hearing a Litefoot song (with the two touring together in 1999), In the fourth grade, Christian began dancing at powwows. While in elementary school he began to write poetry and later began to rap.

The Wind River Country, the wide expansion of land on which the Wind River Reservation resides, provides opportunities for visitors to see and participate in important cultural experiences. Scheduled powwows are available to attend by the public. There are three larger celebrations throughout the year in Wind River Country, including the Eastern Shoshone Powwow in June, the Ethete Celebration in July, and the Northern Arapaho Powwow in September. Beginning on Friday nights, these ceremonies are an important aspect of Native American culture, that involve feasting, singing and dancing.

In 1974 Jacobs acquired five acres of land from the International Paper Company to use as the Waccamaw center of tribal life. Today that area has grown to thirty acres and includes a daycare, office, and ball field. This ownership of the Waccamaw culture was a part of the larger national cultural renaissance in the 1960s and 1970s which was characterized by the growing participation in powwows and the emergence of a national generalized Indian Identity. Jacobs succeeded her father as chief of the Waccamaw-Siouan when she was 45, after his death in November 1985.

72 percent of Lane credit students self-reported as Caucasian. Hispanic students represented 14 percent of credit students; multiracial students represented over 7 percent; Asian students represented 3 percent; Asian/Pacific Islanders represented 1 percent; Native American students represented 3 percent and African American students represented 2 percent. In December 2010, the school became the second community college in the United States to open a tribal longhouse, after Peninsula College, which opened its longhouse in 2007. The college has over 650 American Indian students, and annually hosts one of the largest powwows in the Pacific Northwest.

White was born into the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, Minnesota on the Anishinaabe Reservation in 1964. She was given the name "Wades in the water", as water is healing and is a symbol for life. She grew up in a two bedroom home without running water or electricity and has stated that many of her favorite memories consist of walking the trails and paths of the “old ones” along with her cousins, as well as partaking in powwows and would dance in them as a young girl. Her mother would create all of her dancing outfits, which included beadwork done by hand.

A similar timbre was taken up by later players such as Jan Garbarek, Michael Brecker, and David Sanborn. Of Kaw and Creek heritage, Pepper also achieved notoriety for his compositions combining elements of jazz and Native American music. Don Cherry and Ornette Coleman encouraged Pepper to reflect his roots and heritage and incorporate it into his jazz playing and composition. He was a musical director for Night of the First Americans, a Native American self-awareness benefit concert at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. in 1980 and played also at numerous powwows.

A Northern style Men's Fancy Dancer at the West Valley Powwow in Saratoga, CA, 2005 Fancy dance, Pan-Indian dancing, Fancy Feather or Fancy War Dance is a style of dance some believe was originally created by members of the Ponca tribe in the 1920s and 1930s,Ellis, 111 in an attempt to preserve their culture and religion. It is loosely based on the War dance. Fancy dance was considered appropriate to be performed for visitors to reservations and at "Wild West" shows. But today, fancy dancers can be seen at many powwows across the nation and even the world.

In 2016, full criminal jurisdiction over tribal members reverted to the tribe, along with jurisdiction over the five civil areas of "compulsory school attendance, public assistance, domestic relations, juvenile delinquency and operations of motor vehicles on public roads and highways on the reservation." The Yakama Nation bans alcohol on tribal land, including its casino and convenience store, as well as on tribal powwows and other ceremonies.Tribe Votes to Go Dry, Associated Press (April 8, 2000). In 2000, the tribal council voted to extend its alcohol ban to the entirety of the 1.2-million-acre reservation, including private land owned by the estimated 20,000 non-tribal members who lived on the reservation.

The council would be under the Department of Cultural Resources, so it would be in the same department as the State Council on the Arts. The bill would allow for the creation and sale of goods to be labeled as Native-made, to create a source of income for the Natives in New Hampshire. The numerous groups of Natives in the state have created a New Hampshire Inter-tribal Council, which holds statewide meetings and powwows. Dedicated to preserving the culture of the Natives in New Hampshire, the group is one of the chief supporters of the HB 1610; the Abenaki, the main tribe in the state, are the only people named specifically in the bill.

The council would be under the Department of Cultural Resources, so it would be in the same department as the State Council on the Arts. The bill would allow for the creation and sale of goods to be labeled as native-made to create a source of income for the natives in New Hampshire. The numerous groups of natives in the state have created a New Hampshire Inter- tribal Council, which holds statewide meetings and powwows. Dedicated to preserving the culture of the natives in New Hampshire, the group is one of the chief supporters of the HB 1610; the Abenaki, the main tribe in the state, are the only people named specifically in the bill.

Slesinger pioneered the concept of synergy between radio, films, Big Little Books, novels, serial chapters, radio programs, events, rodeos, powwows, commercial tie-ins, and licensed products such as the Daisy Red Ryder BB Gun in order to build brand equity and create lasting and consistent impressions. By the time he launched Red Ryder he had already proven his formula for creating evergreen character franchises with characters such as Tarzan, Winnie the Pooh, and many other golden age newspaper comic characters. Red Ryder became the longest running and most popular comic character of the Western genre in movies, radio, comic strips, comic books, mass market retailing and the collectors' market. Today Red Ryder has some of the longest business relationships in the history of the licensing industry.

Our Fires Still Burn is a one-hour documentary that explores the experiences of contemporary Native Americans through a compilation of first-person narratives ranging from midwestern Native Americans in so-called "Indian boarding schools"—places where Native American children were forcibly boarded for assimilation purposes in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—juxtaposed with powwows and fire- lighting ceremonies and scenes of performance art. In 2014, the project was announced as one of 13 projects to receive a Public Media Content Fund Award by Vision Maker Media. When she started the project, Geyer partnered with Steve Spreitzer at the Michigan Roundtable for Diversity and Inclusion. Spreitzer introduced Geyer to members of the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe near Mount Pleasant, Michigan.

National Powwow dancer of the Cherokee of Oklahoma, 2007 Oklahoma's centennial celebration was named the top event in the United States for 2007 by the American Bus Association, and consisted of multiple celebrations saving with the 100th anniversary of statehood on November 16, 2007. Annual ethnic festivals and events take place throughout the state such as Native American powwows and ceremonial events, and include festivals (as examples) in Scottish, Irish, German, Italian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Czech, Jewish, Arab, Mexican and African-American communities depicting cultural heritage or traditions. Oklahoma City is home to a few reoccurring events and festivals. During a ten-day run in Oklahoma City, the State Fair of Oklahoma attracts roughly one million people along with the annual Festival of the Arts.

Renowned Iroquoian and Algonquian culture expert Frank Speck made several trips to New England in the 1920s, collecting information on language, history, folklore and meeting with Indians, even paying respects to Mary Chapelle (née Crowd), who steadfastly proclaimed Indian identity and preserved some of the last traditional knowledge of the tribe. Speck, as well as anthropologist/linguist Gladys Tantaquidgeon, were even able to compile small word lists in the Massachusett language—albeit its Wampanoag dialect—by rememberers in the Mashpee and Aquinnah Wampanoag tribes, respectively. Some Indians began publicly confessing Indian identity with the adoption of Plains Indian clothing and powwows, as these were the most well- known symbols of Indian culture, and began participating in pan-Indian cultural meetings and associations, aiming to pool their knowledge and re- establish ties with other Indians.Harkin, M. E. (2004).

At that time, references to scalping the opponents, the Redmen tribe, powwows on the Square and squaws were not apparently seen as offensive, but simply added variety to a sportswriter's pool of clichés or the possibilities for Homecoming themes. Other minorities, of course, were accorded similar treatment in other contexts. These stereotypes continued in varying degrees from then through now: A publication for freshmen women published by the Women's Self-Government Association in 1945-46 was titled The Ripon Squaw; the Indian-head logo appeared on cheerleader outfits into the 1970s and that image still appears on floor mats at Storzer. In summary, Red Martin's years as a player and coach coincide with the transition to the use of Redmen instead of Crimson for college teams, but his nickname does not appear to be the direct source of the Redman name, since it was in use before he was a student.

Ulali has traveled throughout the United States, Canada, and abroad performing at venues like Woodstock 94, the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, the 1997 Smithsonian's Folkways 50th Anniversary Gala at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, the 1998 WOMAD Festival in Seattle, the 1998 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, the 1999 World Festival of Sacred Music at the Hollywood Bowl, Red Solstice 2000 in Montréal, the Britt Festival 2000 in Oregon, V Day 2001 at Madison Square Garden, the 2001 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City, and a wide range of other venues, benefit performances, and festivals. They have performed abroad in Brazil, Corsica, England, France, Fiji, Germany, Italy, Japan, Morocco, New Caledonia and Portugal. Ulali also travels throughout Indian country (United States, Canada, Central America and South America) visiting communities, singing, and exchanging songs. They also perform at powwows and can often be heard on Native radio stations throughout the United States and Canada.