Tuesday, May 15

Gathering of Nations PowWow

05-15-2001
Westerly, Suzanne
News From Indian Country

Gathering Of Nations

For the eighteenth year in a row, the last weekend in April found 3,000
dancers, 49 sitting drums, and singers and artists from over 500 tribes
coming together from all over America to dance, see old friends, and share
their traditional dancing with a crowd estimated this year at 100,000.

"The power of the pow wow is able to put into immediate grasp our wonderful
spirituality, the love and respect of our homeland, the ready smile of our
people and our unique culture, a gift that the world would otherwise never
receive," wrote ...