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13th Annual NCI New Year's Eve Sobriety Pow Wow and Gourd Dance at the Miyamura High School Gym in Gallup, New Mexico. The Gourd Dance is a Kiowa dance and song tradition that has become popular at modern powwows in southwestern Oklahoma. [1]
The Gathering of Nations is the largest pow-wow in the United States and North America. [3] It is held annually on the fourth weekend in April, on the Powwow Grounds at Expo NM, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Over 565 tribes from around the United States and 220 from Canada travel to Albuquerque to participate.
Anna was highly skilled and won prizes at the annual Gallup Inter-tribal Indian Ceremonial exhibition in Gallup, New Mexico, and she exhibited at the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco, California. [12] Jones attended the rural Washita School, [3] but left school after completing the eighth grade to care for her ...
Gallup is a city in McKinley County, New Mexico, United States, with a population of 21,899 as of the 2020 census. [6] A substantial percentage of its population is Native American , with residents from the Navajo , Hopi , and Zuni tribes.
The Lebanon Lodge No. 22, at 106 W. Aztec in Gallup, New Mexico, was built in 1932. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. [1] It is Decorative Brick Commercial in style. It was built as a Masonic lodge meeting hall. [2]
The McKinley County Courthouse in Gallup, New Mexico, was built in 1938–39. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. [1] It was designed by El Paso, Texas, architects Trost & Trost. Its interior includes major works of WPA art. [2]
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In August 1851, Colonel Edwin Vose Sumner established Fort Defiance for the U.S. government (near present-day Window Rock, Arizona) and Fort Wingate (originally Fort Fauntleroy near Gallup, New Mexico). Prior to the Long Walk, treaties were signed in 1849, 1858, and 1861. [note 1]