Articles with the Tag: Powwow
The 39th annual Elmo Powwow was a canopy full of colors under the summer blue skies this past weekend. Unlike last year’s heat wave and restricted fire ordinance, families and friends gathered around campfires and let sparks fly freely through the chillly night air. Participants and spectators alike en...
ARLEE – Generations of people don’t know about Rosie the Riveters, so the Arlee Powwow Committee decided to honor them on July 4 during 118th Arlee Celebration. “They kept this country going,” Cultural Committee Director Tony Incashola said of the “Rosies.” He added ...
Arlee Esyapqenyi (Celebration) starts on Wednesday, June 29, with a week full of traditional dance contests, drum groups and honor ceremonies. “The committee works hard all year to let everyone come and enjoy this celebration whether they dance, sit and visit, eat food or buy gifts,” said Will...
Salish Kootenai College held a two-day celebration for this year’s college graduates on Friday and Saturday in the Joe McDonald event center. After a round of old-style all around traditional women’s dancing at the annual Graduation Powwow, SKC Board Chairman Jim Durglo explained to the crowd ...
ARLEE — Former “Fry Bread Queen” Shelly Fyant is hosting a “Healing the Jocko Valley” food sovereignty project along with Salish Cultural Practitioner Arleen Adams with a message that food is sacred, and it’s medicine. The food project is scheduled for Wednesday, April ...
ST. IGNATIUS – Young visitors watched the jingle dresses in fascination during the Mission School Powwow on Friday. “It’s really cool,” said Frenchtown Elementary School student Lakin Alaniz, 8. “I’ve never seen this before.” Tyler Stenerson, 7, also of Frencht...
PABLO – Francis Stanger, 87, is one of the last dozen or so World War II Veterans in Lake County. He enlisted in the Marine Corps when he was 17. He served from 1945 to 1947. He remembers being stationed in North China near the China Wall and seeing plenty of combat. During one mission, he remembers...
RONAN — Close to 300 pairs of hand-crafted and beaded moccasins are being lovingly created for children in the Flathead Indian Reservations’ Head Start program, just in time for their annual powwow Friday at the Ronan Event Center. Usually the local artisans create personalized patterns by ske...
PABLO – Fancy footwork and beautiful music filled the air May 9 as a tiny committee of determined Salish Kootenai College students successfully managed to put on a celebration for the record books. “This year the powwow was the biggest yet,” College Powwow Committee President Storm...
More than 900 people gathered to share a Thanksgiving dinner and celebrate Native American culture at the 39th annual Headstart Powwow in Ronan on Friday. The event was moved from its former spring date to November in 2013, so families could jointly celebrate their heritage and blessings in the mont...
