Reply to thread

Message

[QUOTE="Striper69, post: 2324267, member: 4267"]
The funny thing about these events is that unless there is a lot of prize money involved a lot of the best dancers don't participate. I can under stand because it takes money to travel to these things and a lot of the dancers/singers-drummers stay in tents on the powwow grounds.

We used to have a nice powwow in Omaha, Ne. but it was mostly funded by United Way from what I understand but a corrupt leader of the native community ruined it and they stopped the funding. The Omaha tribe funded a small powwow for years but they wouldn't fund it this year so there wasn't one at all.

From what I understand a lot of powwows around the country are funded by the tribes that have lucrative casinos (by tax write-offs?). I heard that the Omaha tribe funded the one I featured in Macy, Ne.

It's kind of sad that present day powwows that supposedly are meant to enable Native Americans to keep up their tradition by holding these powwows are limited by the almighty dollar but that seems to be the case.

I applaud the dancers/singers that participated in the videos I recorded because I believe they were trying to keep the powwow tradition going.
[/QUOTE]

Verification

First name of men's bb coach