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Grand Entry at the 1983 Omaha Pow-wow Men's traditional dancers, Montana, 2007 Pow-Wow in Wendake, Quebec/Canada, 2014. A powwow (also pow wow or pow-wow) is a gathering with dances held by many Native American and First Nations communities. Inaugurated in 1923, powwows today are an opportunity for Indigenous people to socialize, dance, sing ...
The Pow-Wow practitioner is more closely allied with theology than medicine and feels he is a mediator between the patient and God. Among the Pennsylvania Germans, the 'plain folk', such as the Amish , Dunkers , and the Mennonites , as well as among the Lutheran and German Reformed church members – Pow-Wow and the Pow-Wow doctor has a ...
During the 2000 pow wow, funds were raised to give actor and stunt double Running Deer a star on the Palm Springs Walk of Stars. [23] Musical artist Litefoot invited Andre 3000 to attend the Gathering of Nations after OutKast's performance of their song Hey, Ya at the 2004 Grammy's, which featured demeaning imagery of Native Americans. [24]
DULUTH - Native American Hinckley High School seniors, who had planned to protest their graduation, planned to celebrate all students with an inclusive pow wow following Friday night's graduation ...
POWWOW is an international mural arts festival founded by Jasper Wong in Hong Kong in 2009. In 2010, the first edition of POWWOW as a week-long mural arts festival was held in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Pow-wow (folk magic), a North American vernacular healing system rooted in Pennsylvania Dutch folk culture PowWow, a wireless sensor network (WSN) mote; PowWow (chat program), an early instant messaging client
The Pow-Wow Oak was an historic tree located in the Belvidere neighborhood of Lowell, Massachusetts. ( "Belvidere" means "beautiful to behold" in the Italian language.) This 300-year-old tree is believed to have served as a gathering place for pow wows held by the Native American Wamesit tribe.
First begun in Wild West shows, Pow-wow culture is popular with Native Americans throughout the United States and a source of tribal enterprise. Wild Westers still perform in movies, pow-wows, pageants and rodeos. Some Oglala Lakota people carry on family show business traditions from ancestors who first worked for Cody and other Wild West shows.