1. Native American Pow Wow Dance & Song UT Informal Class, Fall 2014 Class I, Oct. 14, 2014 Instructor: Marvin Mo Pair aka Doogie

2. Class 1 (10/14): History and Background of the modern Pow Wow Class 2 (10/21): Pow Wow description and etiquette Class 3 (10/28): Pow Wow dance styles and clothes Class 4 (11/4): Tribal-specific dances Potential class trip to Austin Pow Wow: Nov. 8, 2014 Class 5 (11/11): Pow Wow song elucidated 3. Picture of Harry Buffalohead, Ponca, in his spare bedroom, ~1990 4. Marvin Mo Pair Harry Buffalohead Travis Vance Harry Buffalohead and his students in his home, White Eagle, OK, 1990 5. Harry Buffalohead in his kitchen 6. Doogie and Bo singing in Northeastern Oklahoma, late '90s or early 00's source: Ross Johnson 7. Enemy Horse photo: Galen Holder 8. Good Sources for pow wow education Tara Browner Clyde Ellis Luke Lassiter 9. A pow-wow is an event where American Indians of all nations come together to celebrate their culture through the medium of music and dance. -Tara Browner, Heartbeat of the People 10. As I began researching the origins of pow-wows, conflicts among the pow-wow origin narratives of different tribal communities became increasingly evident and problematic. Although clearly there is no single birthplace of the pow-wow, scores of tribes claim to have held the 'first'. -Tara Browner, Heartbeat of the People 11. While Chapter 1 explored some commonalities in the ways traditional indigenous knowledge has been approached and defined, it also stressed the importance of localized rather than generalized (and essentialized) observations and values. -Beverly Diamond, Native American Music in Eastern North America 12. Traditional Indigenous Knowledge (TIK): ...the identification of a distinctive body of knowledge that indigenous communities maintain and use -Diamond 13. conflicting narratives: localized rather than generalized observations and values :: Browner:Diamond 14. Pow wow is probably from the Algonquian language family of northeastern USA and Canada pau wau: Narragansett for he/she dreams 15. Early Anglo-American folk healers borrowed the term pau wau to delineate their curing practices, borrowed from American Indian doctors. Their style of curing is known as pow-wowing. source: http://www.whitetreeaz.com 16. Pow-wowing became associated with medicine shows that often traveled with Indian dancing. In time, this Indian dancing and pow wow became synonymous. www.sideshowworld.com 17. During the time period (late nineteenth, early twentieth centuries) of medicine shows concomitant with indian dancing, the early forms of pow wow, Indians were having very difficult times: -Assimilation -Allotments -Dance restrictions -Confinement to reservations -'Destruction of culture, both material and spiritual' -Limited legal and human rights 18. During this period of woe for Native Americans, dancing goes underground, or is only legal at medicine shows and... 19. Wild West Shows source: http://xroads.virginia.edu 20. source: http://kids.britannica.com 21. Benefits of wild west shows to Indians: -Income -Travel -Intertribal relations 22. Influences on the contemporary pow wow: -Wild west shows and other exhibitions -Warrior society dances -Reservation-era intertribal dances -Postwar homecoming celebrations 23. source: http://kids.britannica.com 24. As I began researching the origins of pow-wows, conflicts among the pow-wow origin narratives of different tribal communities became increasingly evident and problematic. Although clearly there is no single birthplace of the pow-wow, scores of tribes claim to have held the 'first'. -Tara Browner, Heartbeat of the People 25. Clark Wissler's General Discussion of Shamanistic and Dancing Societies 26. A warrior society dance among the Pawnee: Iruska known by other tribes: Hethushka: Ponca/Omaha Ilonshka: Osage Hedoshka: Otoe 27. Collector no. 5 by TC Cannon straight dancer source: Visual Art Source website 28. History of war dance, referred to as Grass or Omaha Dance Complex, by Wissler: -Creative origin: Crow-Feather, ~1820's -Iruska: the fire is in me- Pawnee -hot dance -sold or given to Omaha/Ponca, ~1830's -Omaha sells to Yanktonai Dakota, ~1840's -Yanktonai gives to Teton Dakota -Diffuses across northern plains 29. Introduction to Pow Wow Music a strong root of this music: the war dance or Omaha dance