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The Buder Center for American Indian Studies is a premier graduate program in Social Work. We are committed to preparing and supporting future American Indian leaders to practice in tribal and urban settings, making signiicant contributions to health, wellness, and the sustained future of Indian Country. 2018 Pow Wow Agenda A Special Thank You! The Pow Wow Committee would like to take a moment to express our gratitude to 10:00 am Doors Open the people who helped make our Pow Wow a success. We appreciate their time, donations, inancial assistance, and attention. Contest Registration Open 11:00 am Gourd Dancing American Indian Student Performing Arts Department Association Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies 12:00 ‐ 4:00 pm Grand Entry Flag Song Art History and Archeology Department Department Veteran Song Kathryn M. Buder Charitable Center for Humanities Foundation Victory Song (Post Colors) Jewish, Islamic, Near Eastern Faculty, Staff, and Students of the Invocation Languages & Cultures Department Brown School Introductions East Asian Languages and Cultures Washington University in St. Louis Intertribal Dancing Program St. Louis Community Competition Dancing – Mechanical Engineering St. Louis American Indian Youth, Teen & Golden Age Categories Department Community 4:00 pm Dinner Break The Pow Wow Committee would like to thank those who donated to our 5:00 pm Gourd Dancing Annual Trivia Night’s Silent Auction: 6:00 ‐ 10:00 pm Grand Entry Beverly Bledsoe Repertory Theatre Flag Song Big Shark Bicycle Company River City Rascals Veteran Song Caroline Caligiuri Rockin Jump Victory Song (Post Colors) Float STL Schlaly The St. Louis Brewery Invocation Gateway Arch Shell Gateway Grizzlies St. Louis Spinning Introductions Gooey Louie Sweat St. Louis Intertribal Dancing I Combat Swing Around Fun Town Competition Dancing – Adult Categories Jamie Ishcomer Tashina Lee Emery Jennifer Gallagher Texas Road House Pow Wow Committee Recognition Johnny Macs Tonya Edmond Announce Winners Landmark Theatre Urban Chestnut Brewery Closing Song Missouri Botanical Garden Washington University Take Out Colors Pi Pizza Recreation Center Closing Prayer Pinot's Palette Washington University Plowsharing Crafts Bookstore Pole Position Raceway Welcome to the 28th Annual Washington University in St. Louis Pow Wow Ya’at’eeh (Hello) and welcome to the 28th Annual Washington University in St. Louis Pow Wow. The Kathryn M. Buder Scholars and Pow Wow Co‐Chairs appreciate your attendance at the event this year. This year’s theme for the Pow Wow is Education and our tagline is “Balancing Two Worlds: Indigenous Teachings, Traditions, and Truths.” Many American Indian and Alaska Native communities are rich with knowledge, truths, and teachings ‐ working to educate in the Indigenous way is important in the process of strengthening our communities. To continue the passage of sacred traditions and knowledge is to ensure the success and prosperity of future generations. This project was funded in part by grants from the following: We welcome you to join us in this wonderful occasion by celebrating the vibrant culture of American Indian and Alaska Native people. We are here to honor the Indigenous way of gathering and to embrace our links to the past that keep our Native traditions alive. Please take some time to walk around the information booths and visit the Native arts and crafts vendors. Enjoy some fry bread (it’s delicious!) and check out the Children’s Activities area. Student Coordinating Council of the Washington University is a recycle and compost campus, so we ask you to please recycle Brown School any used containers today. If you need anything throughout the day, feel free to ask any Committee Member wearing a light blue Pow Wow shirt with “STAFF” printed on the back. We invite you to view our Pow Wow shirts, which can be purchased at the front entrance table. We are excited you are here and hope that you have a great experience being a part of our 28th Annual Pow Wow! The Women’s Society of Washington The Buder Scholars are intent on not only carrying this spirit of service to Indian Country, University but also with supporting the local St. Louis community. The Scholars would like to recognize Better Family Life, a local organization that focuses on healing families affected by crime and violence. We would like to honor their efforts as these issues hit very close to home for our tribal communities. Additionally, we want to recognize the Breakfast Club, a cancer support group that The Kathryn M. Buder Center for American Indian provides emotional support to survivors and their families. Studies is sponsoring this program in partnership with the Missouri Humanities Council and with support Ahe’hee’ (Thank You) from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Melissa Yazzie Jo Malia Milner (Navajo) Co‐Chair Co‐Chair 2018 Pow Wow Head Staff WOMEN’S CLOTH dances are a more speciic type of women’s dress Host Northern Drum Host Southern Drum dancing and can be traced to both northern and southern roots. Women’s cloth dance regalia is crucial to its identiication as a unique dance type. Little Soldier Singers Standing Eagle The regalia worn ranges from intricately sewn, ribbon‐work cloth dresses Head Man Head Woman to hide‐beaded dresses covered with cowry shells, elk teeth, silver, and Zhooniya Ogitchida Michelle Reed other adornments. Some dancers will dance clockwise, while others will Ojibwe Anishinsaabe Lac du Flambeau band of Ojibwe stand in one place, turning to either side from time to time. Head Gourd Arena Director WOMEN’S FANCY SHAWL dancers are compared to the movements of Tim Robinson, Sr. Tony Wahweotten the butterly; these dancers wear brightly colored shawls over their Omaha (Prairie Band Potawatomi) shoulders. Beadwork and accessories match the multi‐fringed shawls, creating a splendor of spinning and fancy footwork. Head Judge MC TINY TOTS DANCING is performed by children as young as two years Steve Byington Manny King old. This dance style is a combination of several other more traditional Choctaw/Delaware/Navajo Northern Cheyenne styles. Tiny tot dancing is a strong indication of the cultural ties which dancing provides ‐ children are taught at a young age that ceremony should be valued. Meet the Head Staff TEEN & JUNIOR DANCING represents any dancers under the age of Head Man Dancer Zhooniya Ogitchida is a ten‐ 21. Like tiny tot dancing and golden age dancing, junior dancing year two‐time war veteran of the United States Army and a member of the Ojibwe combines several other dance styles, making it a unique category. (Anishinsaabe) tribe from Red Lake, MN. Zhooniya is a grass dancer, hip‐hop artist, Look above and you will see the very special speaker, entrepreneur, father, leader, veteran, and activist. Zhooniya has dedicated his life to Nations on the Trail serving communities against foreign and In 2004, St. Louis artist and designer Nardi Hobler created the irst 11 of domestic terrorism. Recently, Zhooniya has sacriiced his time with hundreds of others to her painted banners for a project she named “Nations on the Trail”: a protect his American Indian/Alaska Native tribute to the people encountered by Lewis and Clark on their relatives against the systematic oppression at transcontinental journey of 1804. Standing Rock against the Dakota Access Pipeline. Those 11 banners have been displayed annually at the Washington Head Woman Dancer Michelle Reed is a University Pow Wow since 2005. In 2007, Nardi created a new banner member of the Lac du Flambeau band of to honor and celebrate the 10 Native American graduate students in the Ojibwe. She specializes in theatrical dance presentations; is a world renowned beadworker University’s Kathryn M. Buder Scholarship program. Each program and outit maker; and the creator of N8V Dance member brought Nardi something they wanted her to use to represent Fitness, a workout program designed to bring them as individuals and as members of their own pow wow dancing to everyday life. Michelle's individual nations. family has been the driving force in her love for pow wows and outit making. With the help of As in the old days, the creation of this newest her husband, Chad, their children, Hunter and Lauren, dance multiple styles including hoop, banner took many hours, many minds, and many eagle, fancy, and jingle. Michelle recently co‐ hands. It became a vision of the past, the present, founded the Woodland Sky Native American and the future. It draws its strength from the Dance Company. She is currently the lead woman dancer with the group Brule'. power and spirit of all of its participants. Michelle is honored to serve as head woman dancer. Head Gourd Dancer Tim Robinson, Sr. (Omaha) is a Dance Categories member of the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska and an active member of the Lawrence, KS, community where he resides MEN’S TRADITIONAL dance tells of former glorious wars or hunting with his family. He enjoys attending Haskell Light House expeditions; these dancers preserve the “old way” of dancing. Through a Lutheran Ministries and bringing hope, attention, and care combination of graceful and dramatic gestures, the traditional dancer tells to our younger generation. Tim is a graduate of Haskell Indian Nations University and is working on inishing his his story. These men wear exquisite beadwork and feathers that are bachelor’s degree at Washburn University with an usually designed after an individual’s particular Nation. emphasis on drug and alcohol counseling. Along with his passion to serve others in his community, his other love is MEN’S GRASS dancers can be recognized by their multi‐colored fringe the pow wow trail! Tim is never happier than when he is that is often made out of yarn. Their lowing, sweeping movements sitting behind the drum with his brothers singing or dancing his favorite resemble the tall swaying grass in the breeze.