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Article: Pow wow reminiscing
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- Indian Country Today (Lakota Times)
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- March 9, 2005
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Carson, Dale
Indian Country Today (Lakota Times)
03-09-2005
Pow wows are full of joy and pageantry. Dance, food, crafts, socializing
and even politics are always there at our gatherings.
Pow wows come in all sizes and shapes. The Intertribal Indian Club of
Tulsa, Okla. hosts what is, for them, a record pow wow of 30,000 people.
The Red Earth competition in Oklahoma attracts huge crowds as well, not to
mention Crow Fair. In the East, Schemitzun in Connecticut hosts thousands
from over many states and Canada. Those are just a few of the big ones.
Many in New England and elsewhere are small, intimate get-togethers. Our
small New England pow wows grew fast in the 1980s. One in particular, held
on the ...