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Great Lakes Area Powwow, Michigan, 2005
Great Lakes Area Powwow, Michigan, 2003
Head veteran dancer, Joe Dowd leads out the flag carriers at Grand Entry for the Hannahville Community annual Great Lakes Area Powwow, Michigan.
2003 Great Lakes Area Powwow Princess, Michelle Megwanabe from Hannahville, Michigan.
Noreena and Larry Matrious served as lead dancers for Sunday's dance.
Traditional dancer, Denise Shepard of Crandon, Wisconsin, Forest County Potawatomi.
Bernie Dowd, Traditional dancer from Milwaukee, Wisconsin leads out the dancers in Grand Entry.
Bernie Dowd's Northern Traditional Eagle bustle.
Fancy dancers at the Hannahville Great lakes Powwow.
Traditional dancer Linda Cohen.
Zion Walksnice shows his new fancy outfit.
Honor the Earth Powwow, Wisconsin, 2003
Friday night start of the 2003 Lac Courte Oreilles, Honor the Earth Powwow, Wisconsin.
Friday night's lead dancers.
Host Drum, Badger Singers. Co-hosted by the Pipestone Singers in the background.
Saturday afternoon a Snake Dance was featured. Here the lead dancer begins the winding course of the snake's journey.
The men lead it out, the rest of the dancers are lined up by their catagories.
Grass Dancers...
Men Traditional...
Fancy Men Dancers...
Jingle Dress Dancers...
Traditional Women...
The snake begins to coil.
The coil is complete.
The snake uncoils.
The snake sheds it's skin.
Dancers, in groups, pass over to the other side. Each group dances to and then over a marker laid on the dance circle.
Men's Grass ...
Men Fancy ...
Women Jingle cross over doing the side step together.
Women Traditional ...
Women Shawl ...
Final closing of the circle to honor the drum.
Keweenaw Bay Powwow, Michigan, 2003
Dancers gather under the tall Red Pines at Keweenaw Bay's 25 Annual Powwow, Baraga, Michigan.
Lead Dancer for the weekend, Jason Dowd.
Beautiful floral beadwork!
Men's Traditional special ...
Vincent Bender, of Bad River, Wisconsin
Keweenaw Bay powwow is the home of the World Championship Midnight Two-step so they also hold a contest special for the children during the afternoon dance.
So lets go over this one more time.
Grass Dancer special.
Mankato Waucipi, Minnesota, 2002
The Mandan head dress worn by Robert Jacobo caught our eye as he circled in that Lakato warrior way. He used turkey tails as both a visor in front and in a row on the back.
Hank Houle showed us his new bustle made from our two-layer Northern Traditional bustle kit. He used the realistic bald eagle feathers offered as an option. Nice job Hank.
A great example of the Lakota circle bustle with feathered trailer.
Traditional men dance special.
Women's dance special. This Lakata women's deerskin one piece shows matching beadwork, including the fully beaded cape.
A fully beaded purse picks up the design of the cape.
From the women's dance special, two types of plains style cloth dresses using elk teeth for decorations.
Plains cloth dress style using trade wool.
Grand Rapids Powwow, Michigan, 2002
Bill Martell's beaded vest and aprons caught our eye as he came around the dance circle. Except for the northern style eagle bustle, his dance clothing has a look from the turn of the century here in the Great Lakes area.
Luke Jacko pointed out that much of his dance outfit comes from the supplies at Noc Bay.
Julie Dartaguan, in white buckskin, danced to a special for traditional women.
Donna answers one of the many questions we get at the Noc Bay stand on how do do something. It was good to see our many lower Michigan customers.
St. Ignace Powwow, Michigan, 2002
Dylan Walksnice of Escanaba, Michigan, shows his stuff in a dance special for men's fancy catagory. Dylan was featured on the 1999 catalog for Noc Bay.
Intertribal time at the Straits of Mackinaw, long a traditional gathering place on a major trade route. Simon Otto and Maria Meyer from Lower Michigan dance the circle.
Welcome to Noc Bay on the road. In the distance behind us is Lake Huron.
MC of the St. Ignace powwow was our friend John Bailey. Besides keeping everything going, John is a knowledgable historian about tribal oral history and the relations of his people with the early immigrants. MC's are a key to successful powwow gatherings.
Menominee Nation Powwow, Wisconsin, 2002
Grand Entry at the Menominee Nation powwow, Keshena Wisconsin.
Grand entry close up.
A Bald Eagle, injured on the reservation was rehabilitated and then released as part of the opening ceremoney on Saturday.
Eagle takes to the air over the crowd.
Huston Wheelock of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, showed us his new Northern Traditional style bustle. He combines that with his distinctive Oneida beadwork and Gustoway head dress.
Men's Traditional contest song.
The new Menominee Nation Princess beaded crown was made by Terri Webster. A lot of the beads for this crown were purchased from Noc Bay. Excellent job Terri.
Shawl dance contest starts up the women catagories for the afternoon.
Jingle Dress contest song.
Judge watches champion dancer, Becky Taylor from Lac Courte Oreilles
Champion Traditional Women dancer Oraland Caldwell dancing in one of the afternoon contests.
Intertribals and good times seeing friends finished out the day.
National Powwow, Illinois, 2002
Sunset at the evening dance, National Powwow.
Tipi village at National had some excellent examples of plains styles.
Deb Weina's display of her fully beaded cape for her white deerskin dress and assessories won her recognition at the art and craft show at National.
Applique beadwork as bandoliers popular with the Great Lakes people in the early 1900's and seen increasingly again today. Floral designs of the Ojibwa, Potowatomi, and Odawa.
Applique beadwork on a men's cape, a style used by Ojibwa, Potowatomi, and Odawa dancers. Style comes from the early 1900's but still used.
Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwa School Powwow, Wisconsin, 2002
Grand Entry at the Menominee Nation powwow, Keshena Wisconsin.
Grand entry close up.
A Bald Eagle, injured on the reservation was rehabilitated and then released as part of the opening ceremoney on Saturday.
Eagle takes to the air over the crowd.
Huston Wheelock of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, showed us his new Northern Traditional style bustle. He combines that with his distinctive Oneida beadwork and Gustoway head dress.
Men's Traditional contest song.
The new Menominee Nation Princess beaded crown was made by Terri Webster. A lot of the beads for this crown were purchased from Noc Bay. Excellent job Terri.
Shawl dance contest starts up the women catagories for the afternoon.