Valley Natives is an organization devoted to building a strong sense of community among the native and non-native people with an emphasis on indigenous culture and knowledge.

Valley Natives fosters an urban Native community and coordinates to collectively provide information, resources, cultural awareness, and educational news.

The Valley Natives organizes and correlates by the enlightenment of activities, social functions, such as entertainment, conventions, and workshops.

Events provide an informal and safe place for people to gather and dialogue around important issues; to connect with others within the community who are equally concerned about the state of the world and to have the opportunity to be exposed to new ideas.


Valley Natives is designed for urban Natives to mobilize as one community. The late Vine Deloria Jr. wrote the the young Urban population are going to retribalize using the methods of our ancestors. By sharing events we can use the resources of our location to socialize and form new relationships based on kinship values.
Source

Women's Jingle Dress - 2014 Gathering of Nations PowWow Albuquerque, NM

Origin of the jingle dress is attributed to three different Ojibwa communities: the Mille Lacs, Red Lake Band of Chippewa and the Whitefish Bay Ojibwe.

In both the Mille Lacs and Whitefish Bay versions, the dress and the dance appeared in a recurring vivid dream that was realized about the year 1900. In both versions, the dream came to a Midewinini. In both dreams, there were four women, each wearing a jingle dress and dancing.

Each dream also gave instructions on how to make the dresses, what types of songs went with them and how the dance was to be performed. In the Mille Lacs' version, the Midewinini upon awakening, with his wife made four dresses.


He showed his wife how to dance in the dress, which he showed to the four women he had dreamed about, by calling the four women who in his dream wore them, dressed them in the dresses, brought them forth at a dance, told the people about the dream, and how the way the Midewikweg were to dress and dance.

Gathering of Nations 2014 is underway, and in this instant-update age that means the scenes from Albuquerque are flooding the Native internet.

Using the hashtag #gon2014 (and others) those on the scene are sharing their images on Instagram and giving the rest of us a flavor for the proceedings. Can't be there? Check out this gallery, or watch the GON livestream, and we have a feeling you'll get an early start on making your plans for next year. (Source)

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Pre-Powwow Performances on Arena Floor & Stage 49. Bullet Drum Roll Call 11:45 am

Grand Entry of Dancers – Invocation Bullet Hand Drum Contest (Saturday Afternoon ONLY) NOON – 3:00pm Competition Dancing for Golden Age, Juniors & Teens Categories, Tiny Tots Contest (Saturday Only!) Bullet Drum Contest.

Red Thunder Rolling Motorcycle Riders Arrive 2:00 pm Bullet Specials Contests, Giveaways & Honoring the 2014


Gathering of Nations Head Dancers. 3:00pm

Final Gourd Dance. 5:00pm

Bullet Final Grand Entry of Dancers – Invocation 6:00pm Final moments for Out-Going 2013-2014 Miss Indian World Kansas K. Begaye 7:00pm Bullet Crowning of the New Miss Indian World 2014-2015.

Announcement 2014 GON Elders, Tiny Tots, Golden Age & Junior Winners. 8:00pm – ? Bullet Competition Dancing & Singing continued for Adult Categories and Drum Contest Continues. Announce 2014 GON Teens, Adults & Drums Winners. (Source)

Tips To A Good Time!

Should an eagle feather fall during the dancing, Everything must stop until a proper returning of the feather has been performed. During this time all video recoding and photography should stop until the the retrieval of a fallen eagle feather

Pay extra attention to the Master of Ceremonies (MC), various announcements and Etiquette is announced about the event and type of dances

Dances are either for men or women and competitions generally are divided by age categories

Please do not touch the dancers Eagle Feathers, Bustles, Plumes or Fans. You will find that most dancers are friendly and willing to answers your questions about their regalia.


Regalia is not to be called "costumes". Much thought, time, energy and expense goes into the making of each regalia. Often pieces of the regalia are family heirlooms. Frequently they these heirlooms are extremely delicate and irreplaceable.


Finally, Have A Good Time! Native American powwows are social events. Don't be afraid to ask questions and engage in conversation .
 Source

More than three decades ago, the drum group Northern Cree made its unlikely and accidental debut in 1982 on Idaho’s Nez Perce reservation. The 53-year-old Wood, a founding member, has seen the group grow from three members to nearly 60, and its music now reaches audiences from London’s Trafalgar Square to the isolated villages of northern Canada.

One of the brothers borrowed a drum from a local museum and they performed songs they learned from their father and uncles. When the arena director asked for the name of the group, they looked down at the drum, which read in faded letters, “Northern Cree.”

Wood credits the group’s success to the drumbeat, which speaks to everyone, regardless of their background, he said. “No matter where they come from, they’ve heard that song somewhere else before,” he said. “It was in the womb with their mother, and they can relate to it.”


Wood has seen the drum connect with people all over North America and beyond. During pow wow season, which runs from May to September, the group plays almost every weekend. As the group continues to gain momentum, Wood hopes the larger music industry is paying attention.

Wood believes the best part about Northern Cree is connecting with people.

“It’s a gift to be touching people we’ve never even met,” he said. “When you can help people feel better, it really is a source of healing. It’s hard to put this into words: We let our drum do the talking for us.”
 Source

Native drumming and singing welcomed visitors to the The 19th Annual Benefit Pow Wow at the Bluebonnet Ballroom.

Vendors were selling authentic clothing, books and CDs about Native American culture. With native dance competitions, a hand drumming competition and storytelling, the ballroom was alive with culture.

The smell of fry bread wafted through the room as people watched Native Americans proudly display their heritage.

The pow wow raised money for the Native American Student Association scholarship and brought in people from all over Texas and as far as Oklahoma. The event was held from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m Saturday.
Source


HEAD STAFF
Head Singer — Lance Tachawickah
Head Man Dancer — Kasey Reynolds
Head Lady Dancer — Melissa Guerrero
Head Gourd Dancer — Timothy Yellowfish
MC — Michael Burgess
AD — Harold Rogers
Head Boy — Samual Ybarra
Head Girl — Tay-Wisty Edmonds
Facebook Page

UT Arlington NASA Powwow from darryl lauster on Vimeo.

Video of Navajo Baby doing Powwow Dance

The Navajo Nation Fair was established in 1938 to stimulate livestock improvements and management through exhibits for the Navajo people.

The Navajo Nation Fair has become a world-renowned event that showcases Navajo Agriculture, Fine Arts and Crafts, with the promotion and preservation of the Navajo heritage by providing cultural entertainment.

The Navajo Nation Fair is the largest American Indian Fair and Rodeo within the Southwest United States, with a daily average attendance of 15,000 visitors.


The Navajo Nation Fair starts each year after the Labor Day weekend and ending on the following Sunday. The Navajo Nation Fair consists of 25 coordinated events that extend over the seven days. The Navajo Nation Fair is a non-profit organization that is structurally established under the Navajo Nation and Federal codes as a 501-C3 entity.
Source

Derrick Suwaima Davis at the 2014 Heard Museum World Championship Hoop Dance Contest

On Sunday, February 9, at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Derrick Suwaima Davis confirmed his status as the world's greatest hoop dancer by winning the Adult division of the World Championship Hoop Dance Contest for an unprecedented seventh time.

The competition was the 24th the museum has held, and Davis, Hopi/Choctaw, was also the winner in 2013. The clip was produced for the Heard Museum by Lizard Light Productions; visit the company's YouTube feed for more Native-oriented videos and its Facebook page for news and photo galleries.

Since 1929, the Heard Museum, a private non-profit organization, has enchanted visitors from around the world with the art, culture and history of American Indians, with an emphasis on tribes of the Southwest.


With more than 40,000 fine artworks and cultural artifacts in its permanent collection, 12 long-term and changing exhibit galleries, an education center, an award-winning Shop, the Books & More boutique bookstore, Coffee Cantina and Courtyard Café, the Heard Museum is a place of learning, discovery and unforgettable experiences. In addition to its flagship Phoenix location, the Heard Museum also operates a community museum in North Scottsdale. (Source)

A Native American powwow is a celebration of culture and tradition, and at its center is a drumbeat that often adds in number and grows in volume but never changes time.

That’s because it represents the beating of the heart, the difference between life and death.

The high school gymnasium at the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics reverberated with that drumbeat Saturday as hundreds turned out for the state’s first powwow of the year. Members of several tribes joined in with songs that often appeared to test the vocal cords, while others in full dress performed dances symbolizing a way of life that has lasted centuries.

Nina Locklear, 31, a Lumbee from Fayetteville, bounced to the drumbeat as the dancers made their way into a sacred circle. She was holding her 8-month-old son, Chase; he bobbed up and down in her arms, eyes wide open to the parade of brightly colored dancers in feathers and animal hides.


“It’s just a way to celebrate our heritage, our culture and share it with other people,” Locklear said. “A lot of these people are not related, but they consider themselves family and friends because they powwow together.”
Source

The Heard Museum's Hoop Dance Championship featured many names familiar to hoop dance fans, including Nakotah LaRance, Tony Duncan, and winner Derrick Suwaima Davis. The Youth Division was won by a possible future star, six-year-old Rito Lopez Jr. (Pima/Apache/Arikara/Hidatsa/Mandan), also known as "RJ."

The video was produced by Lizard Light Productions.

Top American Indian and Canadian First Nation hoop dancers are preparing to enter the competition and win the prestigious title and cash prizes at the two-day competition, in which men and women compete on an equal field.

Over time, the intertribal hoop dance has expanded to incorporate new and creative designs and extremely intricate footwork. Each dancer presents a unique variation of the intertribal hoop dance, weaving in aspects of his or her distinct tradition and culture. Individual routines are presented using as few as four to as many as 50 hoops, which are manipulated to create a variety of designs including animals, butterflies and globes.

Dancers are judged on a slate of five skills – precision, timing/rhythm, showmanship, creativeness and speed.
Source

The 23rd Annual Heard Museum World Championship Hoop Dance Contest recently took place again in Phoenix, Arizona, and hoop dancers came from all over the United States and Canada to compete for the ultimate title of becoming World Hoop Dance Champion.

It’s a pretty big deal not only to receive the highest honor from your community and peers, but the first place prize also comes with a $3,500 cash award and this year that incredible honor went to Derrick Suwaima Davis (Hopi/Choctaw) who won this year for an unprecedented sixth time!

Davis last captured the World Champion title back in 2010 and this year he returned to Phoenix and danced himself right into the winner’s circle all over again.

With a score of 235 points, Davis came in ten points ahead of the amazingly talented Tony Duncan who earned the World Champion title for himself back in 2011, while Kevin Dakota Duncan placed 3rd this year with 215 points. The Duncan brothers were very high profile this year in part as the result of the appearance in Nelly Furtado’s Big Hoops music video.


Dallas Arcand, the 2012 World Champion Hoop Dancer who took the title last year and competed on Canada’s Got Talent earned himself a fourth place finish.
SOURCE

Check out his award winning hoop dance performance below:

The jingle dress came to Shannon Bear in a dream.

She was working with the University of Winnipeg, travelling to First Nations communities to engage and encourage young people. But after speaking to youth on one particular Manitoba reserve, she was left shaken and upset - and didn't know what was wrong.

"I went to sleep that evening and dreamt that the youth were really sick," said Bear. "They were just so damaged from suicide attempts and drugs."

Bear, who has travelled to powwows and cultural gatherings with her family since she was a child, said she couldn't shake the troubling feeling. The next day, after attending a ceremony in the community, it came to her.

"I had a vision of a jingle dress, and the jingles were shaking in the dream," said Bear. "I didn't question it too long, I just went ahead, had the dress made, and started dancing."

Since then, she has spent much of her time visiting communities across the prairies to share the power of the healing jingle dress dance. Having been a part of Anishinaabe tradition since the 1920s, it has come to play an important part in powwows and spiritual gatherings.


Bear says that young Aboriginal women in particular are eager to learn about the dress and embrace their roles as leaders and healers in their own communities.

“They want to be recognized and valued and loved,” said Bear. “And they want to do something that will enrich their future. The dress helps them do that.”

And as a young Aboriginal woman herself, she’s seen the healing impact it has had first-hand.


“My cousin took her own life,” said Bear. “I took about a year to grieve, and during that time the only thing I had that was good and important in my life was the jingle dress.”

Bear and other dancers will be on hand to share their message on Saturday morning, when thousands of people from all walks of life are expected to converge on Portage and Main. They're gathering to greet James Anaya, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

#JingleDress Healing Dance A CALL TO ACTION: Welcoming the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples to Winnipeg from Crystal D Greene on Vimeo.
She says it is an opportunity for Aboriginal people to share their story - to be heard, and to continue addressing the many challenges they face in today’s Canada.

“It’s to bring awareness to people internationally and locally,” said Bear. “I hope that people take away a connection with Indigenous people, to know that we are all alike and related.”
SOURCE

Though Indigenous Peoples Day usually falls on Oct. 12, Berkeley will celebrate the holiday a little early this year with the annual powwow and Indian market Saturday in the Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park.

This marks the 21st year for the gathering, which features not only a Native American arts and crafts fair, but also a kaleidoscope of drumming, singing and dance in intertribal exhibitions and contests.

A highlight of the morning will be the performances by about 20 dancers from the Northern California Pomo peoples.

Tribal members both young and old, outfitted in their vibrant beaded and feathered regalia, will share stories, dances and songs in the powwow circle, says Gino Barichello, the event's coordinator. He's been involved with the celebration since its inception in 1992, when Berkeley replaced Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day.

Kids and grown-ups alike can watch the high-energy, colorful Aztec dancers, who will perform dances representing peoples of Central America as part of the exhibitions. Following the exhibitions, there'll be a ceremonial Gourd Dance, which Barichello says will honor veterans and warriors.


That'll be followed by intertribal dancing, Barichello says, "when all people are welcomed into the powwow arena to dance and participate."

"We have community members who attend powwows all year long, and spectators will often come up and ask about dances or styles. You can always come up to the speaker stand and get an answer."

If you go

Indigenous Peoples Day: 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday. Free. Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park, Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Berkeley. (510) 595-5520. www.ipdpowwow.org. 
 SOURCE

Thousands of people enjoyed a celebration of native american culture at the Ocmulgee National Monument, Saturday.

20 Native American tribes were represented through traditional dance, storytelling, and art.

Organizers say more than 300 native people are participating in the celebration this year.

They're using encampment setups to teach visitors about current and past practices.

Diamond Brown has showcased Cherokee culture at the event several times. He said, "For a long time people had that mindset due to TV and Hollywood that Indians are bad people. So we try to break that."

The Ocmulgee Indian Celebration will continue Sunday. The event runs from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. at the Ocmulgee National Monument. (Source)


“Part of the park’s stated mission is of course to not only preserve the mounds and the cultural site here but it’s also to educate the public about the mounds and about modern Native American people,” said Ocmulgee Superintendent Jim David. “The celebration is a very important part of that mission (Source)

Thousands are in Naperville this weekend to celebrate Native American culture during the annual Harvest Pow Wow at Naper Settlement.

The event is sponsored by the Midwest Soarring Foundation. Special Events Coordinator for the Soarring Foundation Janet Sevilla said she hopes this year will set a record attendance number.

“We have a large number of attractions, native food vendors, children’s games and crafts and performances that we think will appeal to families throughout the weekend,” Sevilla said. “The whole purpose of the pow wow is to educate the public about this part of American culture and share it.”

Many of the attractions from previous years were featured once again including an arrowhead making demonstration, Native American drumming and dancing, and the popular dog sledding demonstration. Sevilla said a highlight this year was the appearance by two-time Grammy Award winner Robert Mirabal, a flautist and also a novel writer, who performed Saturday at 5 p.m.

A special VIP reception for Mirabal was held earlier Saturday afternoon.


Joseph Standing Bear, founder and president of the Midwest Soarring Foundation, seemed pleased with the turnout Saturday afternoon as well as the mild sunshine and slightly cool temperatures.

“The weather is perfect for dancing,” he said with a smile. “The ‘Hoop Dance’ team performed very well today, and it’s great for people to come out and show their talents.”

He also spoke about the “spiritual” state of his people and proclaimed they were ‘healing.”
Source

The Homeland is still home. The place "where the old ones walked" includes almost 5,000,000 acres of what is now north Idaho, eastern Washington and western Montana.

The "old ones" were extremely wealthy from an Indian perspective, with everything they needed close at hand. Unlike the tribes of the plains, the Coeur d'Alenes and their neighbors, the Spokanes, the Kootenai, the Kalispel, the bands of the Colville Confederated Tribes and the Kootenai-Salish, or Flatheads, were not nomadic.

Coeur d'Alene Indian villages were established along the Coeur d'Alene, St. Joe, Clark Fork and Spokane Rivers.

The homeland included numerous and permanent sites on the shores of Lake Coeur d'Alene, Lake Pend Orielle and Hayden Lake.

These tribes traded among themselves and with scores of tribes far away on the Pacific coast. Ancient trade routes connected the Coeur d'Alenes with the Nez Perce, the Shoshones and the Bannocks to the south and southeast. To the east were the tribes of the Great Plains and the vast herds of buffalo.


With the coming of horses, young Coeur d'Alene men journeyed east to hunt buffalo.

All ancient tribal trade routes and paths remain today. In fact, those very same routes are still used all across the country. Today, however, we call those tribal routes "Interstate highways."(SOURCE)

The Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians will host the 18th annual Chumash Inter-Tribal Pow-Wow — the largest cultural event of the year held by the tribe — on Oct. 5 and 6.

The pow-wow, which attracts dancers and drummers from tribes across the country and thousands of spectators, is a celebration of Native American song and dance at Live Oak Campground near Lake Cachuma. The 2013 theme is “Kiyiswana’n — Our Native Way.”

Highlights will include dance and drum competitions, a healing circle and a variety of Native American food and crafts vendor booths. The pow-wow is scheduled from 10 a.m. to

10 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday.

Dancing categories include traditional, straight, fancy and grass dancing. More than $45,000 in prize money will be offered. A gourd dance, followed by a grand entry, will begin the pow-wow at noon on both days.

“Each year, our pow-wow gives us the chance to share our Chumash heritage with tribal people from around the country and with the general public,” said Chumash Tribal Chairman Vincent Armenta in a written statement. “We’re proud that, for the past 18 years, we’ve been able to host this cultural and educational event.”


Every year, the Chumash pow-wow is organized by a committee of tribal volunteers with a goal to provide the community with educational and cultural experiences focused on Native American music, arts and customs while promoting native self-reliance and pride, the tribe said.

Pow-wows didn’t originate in California, however, the Chumash and other tribes in the state have gathered to sing, dance, socialize and heal for many generations. In the 1960s, the Chumash first opened one of its pow-wow gatherings to the public as part of a fundraising campaign to bring running water to the Santa Ynez Reservation.


In keeping with the Chumash commitment to being environmental stewards, the pow-wow will be a zero-waste event, the tribe said.

Live Oak Campground, 4650 Highway 154, is a Santa Barbara County park just west of Lake Cachuma, with an entrance road next to Rancho San Marcos golf course.

There is no charge for admission. Parking is $5 and the camping fee is $25.

For more information, call 688-7997.
 Source

Aboriginal Manito Ahbee Festival: the biggest round dance has a place for everyone

Winnipeg is vying to be the Prairie city with the biggest round dance Thursday in the lead-up to the annual aboriginal Manito Ahbee Festival.

Manito Ahbee is the province's glitziest showcase for aboriginal music and culture. It takes place Aug. 16 to 21.

An intertribal call to dance means everyone, aboriginal and non-aboriginal, is invited into the circle. It is one of five events designed to draw in public participation to this year's Manito Ahbee events.

The other public invitations to dance include the grand entries at noon and 7 p.m. for the competition powwows at the MTS Centre on Tuesday and Wednesday.

"The whole point of the festival is to share it with everybody. Manito Ahbee is a festival that showcases aboriginal culture but it's not a festival for just aboriginal people," publicist Nancy Gregory said.


The ninth annual festival is shifting to a new seasonal time slot this year, moving to a summer schedule from the fall to coincide with the North American powwow trail.

The powwow trail is a fixture on Canadian First Nations and American reservations from the Atlantic to the Pacific every year.

The festival's centrepieces are the same -- the red carpet Aboriginal Peoples Choice Music Awards Sunday and a competition powwow Tuesday and Wednesday. The powwow is expected to draw hundreds of aboriginal dancers from Manitoba and beyond. Cash prizes for dancers are worth a total of $125,000 this year.


Both the awards night and the two-day powwow, with an aboriginal marketplace of artists and artisan work for sale, are staged at the MTS Centre. Family day passes are $45. Singles are $16.

The festival will skip Monday to make room for American teen heartthrob singer Selena Gomez at the MTS Centre.

There are a number of other firsts this year, intended to broaden the scope of the annual event.

Those firsts include the Oh My Gospel (OMG) Jamboree at the Holy Trinity Church across from the Millennium Library on Saturday. That event includes iconic aboriginal performer Ray St. Germain, who is to be awarded a lifetime aboriginal achievement award the next night at the main awards.


A M©tis jigging contest was also added to the festival lineup for the first time this year.

For the ninth year in a row, aboriginal actor and director Lorne Cardinal will host the festival and the awards night.

The theme this year is "ignite your spirit" and the kickoff is on Friday with a press conference at 11 a.m. Gregory said there are plans to light a sacred fire at The Fork's Oodena Circle Friday and hold a pipe ceremony to open the festival.

But the festival this year really begins Thursday with the gigantic round dance on Edmonton Street.

The streets will be closed from Graham Avenue to Portage Avenue late Thursday morning to accommodate the arrival of traditional dancers, drums and the public starting at 11:45 a.m.

The Oglala Nation Powwow is one of the biggest events of the summer.

This year the powwow began Aug. 1 and ends today, Aug. 4., in Pine Ridge. Drumming, dancing and singing entertain crowds of people who come to watch, meet people, eat, and celebrate the Lakota culture.

The beautiful jingle dresses and fancy dance clothing also make an impression on those attending the performances. The Rapid City Public Libraries have resources to help you learn more about the powwow tradition and Native American history, handiwork and culture.

One of the fastest ways to locate materials is by searching for powwow in the libraries’ catalog. We have made it even easier for you by creating a web link to take you directly to our favorite resources on the topic.

On the bottom of the catalog’s search results page, you will find a link called Powwow Books & DVD’s and also Powwow magazine articles. Clicking on the Powwow Books and DVD’s will bring up listings of resources on powwows, Native American handiwork, and Native American foods, including the bison.

One of the delightful children’s stories is "Jingle Dancer" by Cynthia Leitich Smith. It is the tale of a young dancer who doesn’t have enough jingles for her own dress but borrows some from family and dances in their honor.


A relevant book in the adult section is titled, “Heartbeat of the People: Music And Dance of the Northern Powwow,” by Tara Browner. Browner takes the reader on an insider’s journey through the dances and music, the traditions and regalia of the powwow, and also interviews two different powwow families, one Lakota and one Anishnaabeg.

We also recommend using American History Online to find articles from books, primary accounts, and biographies having to do with Native American history and culture of North America.

To access this database, go to the Libraries’ homepage, www.rapidcitylibrary.org, and choose Research/Database from the left-hand menu. From the list of topics, choose History, Biography and Genealogy and then American History Online.


The articles on powwow s are few and short, but the database does contain descriptions of various Native American dances as well as many articles on Native American people, nations, culture and history.

Finally, the Black Hills Knowledge Network (www.blackhillsknowledgenetwork.org), serving the Black Hills Community’s need for local information, has resources on current issues, data sets, and archival photos, maps and documents relating to Oglala history and culture. These can be accessed by choosing Pine Ridge from the menu or by entering applicable terms in the search box.

These resources can help you learn more about Native American powwows, but library patron Paul Wounded Head advises that there is no substitute for actually experiencing the powwow.

It is one of the largest social events in the Black Hills and all are welcome to attend. For more information on the Oglala Nation Powwow or any of the area powwows later this year, see the South Dakota Department of Tribal Relations website (www.sdtribalrelations.com/powwows.aspx).
SOURCE

New York City’s largest annual pow wow will wrap up with its final day of festivities on Sunday at the Queens County Farm Museum in Floral Park.

The inter-tribal pow wow is in its 35th year and brings together over 40 Native American tribes for dance competitions. The event also features Native American crafts, food, art, and jewelry.

The event is New York City’s oldest and largest and is held on apple orchard and farm grounds. Some of the highlights of the dances include a hoop dance, Tlacopan Aztec Dancers and the Sunset Lighting of the Bonfire.

More information is available by calling 718.347.FARM or at queensfarm.org.
Source

35th Annual THUNDERBIRD AMERICAN INDIAN MID-SUMMER POW WOW

July 26 – 28, 2013

New York City 's oldest and largest pow wow will feature three days of intertribal Native American dance competitions to which the public is invited. Over 40 Indian nations are represented at this spectacular event held in the apple orchard on the farm grounds. A large selection of quality Native American art, crafts, jewelry and foods are available.


ADMISSION:

ADULTS: $10.00 (all weekend pass $15.00)

CHILDREN: $5.00 (age 12 and under) (all weekend pass $7.00)

Free with Farm Membership