The Kathryn M. Buder Center for American Indian Studies promotes preparation of professionals to assume leadership positions in social services and governmental institutions dedicated to improving the lives of American Indians. Scholarships The Brown School has one of the largest social work financial aid programs in the country including scholarships, loans, and work-study programs. The Kathryn M. Buder Charitable Foundation offers full scholarships to American Indian/Alaska Native students who plan to practice social work in American Indian communities. These scholarships provide tuition, monthly stipends, professional development opportunities, and books for two years of full-time study. The Brown School’s Center for Social Development provides a Buder Doctoral Fellowship. This fellowship is awarded to an outstanding doctoral student with expressed interest in American Indian studies and social work. 2015 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 Contest Registration Opens the people who helped make our Pow Wow a success. We appreciate their time, Vendor Booths Open donations, inancial assistance, and attention. 11:00 am Gourd Dancing Dean Edward F. Lawlor Kemper Art Museum 12:00 ‐ 4:00 pm Grand Entry Angela Gilbreath Metro St. Louis American Indian Student Association Music Department Flag Song Art History & Archeology Performing Arts Department Veteran Song Department Kathryn M. Buder Charitable Victory Song (Post Colors) Biology Department Foundation Center for Diversity Inclusion Faculty, Staff, and Students of the Invocation Center for Humanities Brown School Introductions Diversity Awareness Partnership Washington University in St. Louis East Asian Languages & Cultures St. Louis Community Intertribal Dancing Program St. Louis American Indian Competition Dancing – First Unitarian Church of St. Louis Community Youth, Teen & Golden Age Categories 4:00 pm Hand Drum Contest The Pow Wow Committee would like to thank those who donated to our Annual Trivia Night’s Silent Auction: Dinner Break Avalon Exchange Pi Pizza 5:00 pm Gourd Dancing Barnes and Noble The Purple Cow 6:00 ‐ 10:00 pm Grand Entry Blueberry Hill River City Rascals Flag Song Clayton Car Wash Salt & Smoke Dewey’s Pizza Sandra Zak Veteran Song Garden Heights Schlaly Victory Song (Post Colors) Gateway Grizzlies Shanondora Billiot Invocation Gourd Jewels Sharon Waldmann Introductions Isaiah Stewart Sherry Taluc Jane Fitzgerald Subterranean books Intertribal Dancing Janice Begay Swing Around Fun Town Competition Dancing – Adult Categories Joe Tovar The Taffa Family The Maher Family Thomas & Susan LaSarge Pow Wow Committee Recognition Manny King Traveling Tea Honorariums Massage Envy Tropicana Lanes Melanie Law Tutti Fruitti Announce Winners Missouri Botanical Garden Upper Limits Closing Song Molly Tovar Urban Chestnut Brewery Take Out Colors Parkway Hotel Von Fass Closing Prayer Phoenix Rising Wizard’s Wagon Welcome to the 25th Annual Washington University in St. Louis Pow Wow Special Thanks to Hobi & Sadie Haque for Printing Our Pow Wow Ya’at’eeh! Aho! Welcome to the 25th Annual Washington University in St. Louis Pow Wow. The Kathryn M. Buder Scholars and Pow Wow Co‐ T‐Shirts Chairs appreciate your attendance at the event this year. This year’s www.skyyscreenprinting.com theme for the Pow Wow is “Honoring Our Elders Through Tradition” As Native people living in the 21st century, our environment requires us to balance our traditional way of life with mainstream norms. Our Native elders in tribal communities are seen as respectable role models. Native elders help keep the balance of sharing traditional knowledge and stories alive among Native youth and families. We welcome you to join us in this wonderful occasion by celebrating the vibrant culture of American Indian and Alaska Native communities. We are here to honor the indigenous way and embrace a link to the past that This project was funded in part by grants from the following: maintains Native traditions. Please take some time to walk around the information booths and visit the Native arts and crafts vendors. Enjoy AMB Foundation some frybread and check out the youth activities area. Please recycle any containers today. If you need anything throughout the day, feel free to ask any Committee Member wearing a red Pow Wow shirt with Student Coordinating Council of “STAFF” printed on the back. We encourage you to view our Powwow shirts, which can also be purchased at the front entrance table. We are the Brown School excited that you are here and hope that you have a great experience being a part of our 25th Annual Powwow! The Women’s Society of A’hee’hee! We‐Wa‐Hunn! (Thank You!) Washington University Wynette Whitegoat Veronica Bruesch Co‐chair Co‐chair 2015 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 Lightning Horse 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 Adrian Primeaux Jordan Harmon other adornments. Some dancers will dance clockwise, while others will (Ihanktowan Dakota) (Creek Nation of Oklahoma) 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 John White Antelope the butterly; these dancers wear brightly colored shawls over their shoulders. Beadwork and accessories match the multi‐fringed shawls, (Omaha) (Northern Arapaho) 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 Isaiah Stewart old. This dance style is a combination of several other more traditional (Choctaw/Delaware/Navajo) (Oglala Lakota) styles. Tiny tot dancing is a strong indication of the cultural ties which dancing provides ‐ children are taught at a young age that ceremony Meet the Head Staff should be valued. Head Man Dancer Adrian Primeaux is an enrolled member of the Ihanktowan Dakota Tribe (Yankton Sioux). Adrian TEEN & JUNIOR DANCING represents any dancers under the age of 21. currently resides in Lawrence, KS with his baby son. Adrian Like tiny tot dancing and golden age dancing, junior dancing combines Primeaux, is a respected young leader & dancer in Indian several other dance styles, making it a unique category. Country. He has his BA in Indigenous & American Indian Studies from Haskell Indian Nations University. In 2010‐2011, Look above and you will see the very special he was the Haskell Brave title holder & ambassador at Haskell. Adrian was brought up and raised in the Native Nations on the Trail American Church religion, where his practices Native Songs (NAC Songs) & ceremonies around the United States. He also began dancing early In 2004, St. Louis artist and designer Nardi Hobler created the irst 11 of in life at different powwows with his family. He was brought into the arena having her painted banners for a project she named “Nations on the Trail”: a his cultural right to dance as a “grass‐dancer”. Adrian is honored and pleased to be tribute to the people encountered by Lewis and Clark on their head man dancer for Washington University in St. Louis 25th Annual Powwow. transcontinental journey of 1804. Head Woman Dancer Jordan Lee Harmon is an enrolled member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, descended from Those 11 banners have been displayed annually at the Washington Koweta Tribal Town, and is of the deer clan. She currently University Pow Wow since 2005. In 2007, Nardi created a new banner serves as the 2014-2015 Miss Indian Oklahoma & passionately to honor and celebrate the 10 Native American graduate students in the champions her platform of Native Americans in Education in all University’s Kathryn M. Buder Scholarship program. Each program areas of her life. Jordan graduated from Oklahoma State University with a B.A. in Political Science & a double minor in member brought Nardi something they wanted her to use to represent Spanish & American Indian Studies. During her time at OSU, them as individuals and as members of their own Jordan worked for Stillwater Public Schools Indian Education as individual nations. a coordinator for cultural activities & as a tutor for Native students in K-12. She also served as an executive member of the As in the old days, the creation of this newest Native American Student Association & served as the 2011- banner took many hours, many minds, and many 2012 Miss American Indian OSU. Jordan currently attends law school at the University of Tulsa College of Law, where she will graduate with a concentration hands. It became a vision of the past, the present, in Native American Law. Upon graduation, Jordan hopes to represent the and the future. It draws its strength from the interests of tribes and Indian people in the area of natural resources and power and spirit of all of its participants. environmental law. Head Gourd Dancer Tim Robinson Sr. is a member Dance Categories of the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska and an active member of the Lawrence, KS community where he resides with his MEN’S TRADITIONAL dance tells of former glorious wars or hunting 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 his story. These men wear exquisite beadwork and feathers that are Indian Nations University and is working on finishing his usually designed after an individual’s particular Nation.