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• He will be powwowing with Fortune 500 executives, foreign leaders, and banking magnates, too.
• Setting: untidy little kitchen; long table around which we take our places when the interview begins; books on the floor; a big fax machine from twenty years ago; watercolors I think at first are stained-glass windows, which he tells me he painted himself; photos from films in which he appeared, as Chief Big Tree and Chief Thundercloud did before him; poster saying don't blame me, i voted for russell means; leaflets from the campaign he's running now, for the presidency of the Tribal Agency, against the man from yesterday's powwow, John Yellowbird Steele; and leaflets in support of George W. Bush, whose side I already knew he had joined. In the Footsteps of Tocqueville
• He said his nominator asked him to attend the powwow and participate in a Plains Cree ceremony.
• As mentioned below, it shows a modern Native child; it also shows traditions, such as a powwow and jingle dancing, balanced with modern ways (a cousin is a lawyer, the video of grandmother.) Jingle Dancer
• The park had denied permission allegedly because park rules stipulate that events must end by a specified time, whereas ‘a proper powwow goes on all night.’
• This powwow is also one that requires 1/4 native blood quantum (at least one full blooded indian grandparent) for dancers. March 20th, 2009
• The last time I had been in Red Lake I was with my mother, sister, nieces, nephews and in-laws for a powwow.
• My brother's getting divorced so I'm going home for a family powwow this weekend.
• We'll live in a tipi camp, learn about the plains environment, practice some traditional arts, attend a powwow, and hike in the splendour of the northern Rockies.
• On a sunny morning earlier this week, he powwowed with other activists, tapped messages into his Apple iPhone on the status of protest marches, and read over remarks ahead of a news conference. Tibetan Youth Challenge Beijing -- and Dalai Lama