POW WOW DANCERS

This month is American Indian Heritage Month, and I had the opportunity to see Native Pride Dancers at Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian. There was a demonstration of different pow wow dances, and the audience was able to join in the dance after.
Below the Native Pride Dancers video clip are photos from the Thunderbird American Indian Mid-Summer Pow Wow photos (2012-2014.) at Queens County Farm Museum, and video and photos from Celebration of Indigenous Lenape Culture at The Paterson Great Falls National Park and The Paterson Museum. video to the right is from Arlan Whitebreat explaining the importance of the pow wow.

Native Pride Dancers website:  http://www.nativepridearts.org
Thunderbird American Indian Dancers website: http://www.thunderbirdamericanindiandancers.wordpress.com
Silver Cloud Singers website: http://silvercloudsingers.com



Native Pride Dancers teaching steps for audience participation.



Arlan Whitebreast

Audience participation with Native Pride Dancers














Jingle dancers at Thunderbird American Indian Mid-Summer Pow Wow

Fancy dancers at Thunderbird American Indian Mid-Summer Pow Wow

Larry Yazzie

Audience participation wth Native Pride Dancers.

Inter-tribal dance with audience participation