POWWOWS AND FESTIVALS

Last updated - May 20, 2008.
Maintained by Lisa Mitten

Following are links to sites that maintain listings of upcoming powwows, as well as provide information on powwow dancing and customs.

POWWOWS & POWWOW INFO

• American Indian Exposition - an annual biggie held in August each year in Anadarko, Oklahoma! Added 8/5/97; updated 10/17/98

• Canadian Aboriginal Festival - the annual powwow/arts festival/concert/fashion show/lacrosse competition/film festival/music awards extravaganza held at the Toronto Skydome each November. Added 8/2/03

• Cherokee of Georgia Annual Spring Powwow - St. George, Georgia. Added 11/15/98

• Council Tree Powwow - Delta, Colorado. Added 1/31/2000

• Denver March Powwow Added 11/25/99; updated 1/4/00

• Gallup Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial Added 4/27/99; updated 10/17/01

• Gathering of Nations Powwow - info on the annual April powwow! Added 9/9/96; updated 10/17/01

• Gourd Dancing - an overview and description of this dance Comanche and Kiowa people honoring veterans. Added 8/2/03

• Great Lakes Powwows - Native American Celebrations of the Northeast - a mulit-media virtual reality tour of a powwow. Added 7/8/97; updated 10/17/01

• Illinois Powwow Schedule Added 1/21/00; updated 4/5/02

• Indian Summer Festival - every September in Milwaukee. Added 7/15/04

• International Aboriginal Festival - Ottawa, Ontario. Added 10/26/01

• Long Valley Ceremonial Grounds - traditional Cherokee stomp dance grounds in Oklahoma. Added 10/3/01

• Mahkato Wacipi - a traditional powwow from the Mdewakanton Dakota, September 14-16,2001, Mankato, MN. Added 6/25/01

• Native America Online - listing of powwows and tribal events around the country. Added 2/23/00

• Native Powwows and Events in North America (from the Lenni Lenape Historical Society and Museum, and with an Eastern U.S. focus) Updated 10/17/01

• New England powwows Added 7/11/99

• North American Iroquois Veterans Powwow - Salamanca, NY, July 16&17, 2005. Added 4/7/00; updated 11/1/04

• Northern Colorado Intertribal Pow-Wow Association - Added 3/20/97

• Omaha Indian Music - this treasure trove of Omaha traditional music includes RealAudio versions of the wax cylinder recordings made by Smithsonian anthropologists at the turn of the twentieth century, as well as hundreds of songs and speeches from the 1983 Omaha harvest celebration powwow and 25 songs and speeches from the 1985 Hethu'shka Society concert at the Library of Congress. Added 2/14/00

• Powwow Calendar - for the greater Los Angeles area. Added 10/17/97

• Powwow Calendar - from the fine folks at Four Winds Trading Co. Added 3/1/00

• Pow-wow Connection - listings for mostly MN/WI/MI/Ontario powwows Added 2/16/00

• The Powwow Editions - a web page of renowned photographer Ben Marra's powwow photos, books, and calendars. Added 2/10/00; updated 12/12/04

• Powwow Listings - covers the whole country, not just regional events. Added 2/14/00

• The Pow Wow Poll - vote for your favorite drums and and dancers! Added 5/19/01

• Pow Wow Times - listing of powwows in the southwest & southern California Added 1/25/99

• The Powwow Trail - protocol and traditions for those who have never been to a powwow. Added 11/28/97

• PowwowSchedule.com - focusing on New England and eastern powwows. Added 3/27/05

• Schemitzun - Mashantucket Pequot annual powwow, Ledyard, CT. August 21-24, 2008.

• Southern Powwows - a very comprehensive site on southern style dancing. ]Added 10/9/97; updated 10/17/01

• THE SPIKE - Jimmy Boy Dial's newsletter of East Coast Native events Added 8/5/97

• Stanford Annual May Powwow Added 2/19/99; updated 7/5/00

• Strawberry Music Festival of Native Music and Dance - July each year at the Akwesasne Mohawk reservation in upstate New York. Added 7/10/00

• Toshavik's Pow-wow Page Added 9/16/99; updated 10/17/01

• United Tribes International Powwow - sponsored by United Tribes Technical College in Bismarck, ND, each September. Added 4/26/03

• University of St. Thomas Annual Powwow - November, St. Paul, Minnesota Added 8/22/99

• Virginia State Powwow Calendar Added 2/29/00

• Wacipi Powwow (a film from KTCA-TV in Minnesota, for purchase on video or free online via RealVideo) Added 8/16/96; updated 10/17/01

• World Peace and Prayer Day - annual event supported by Arvol Looking Horse, Lakota Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe. Added 2/9/99

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