🎉 Happy Native American Heritage Month! 🎉 Pow Wow Streams, Prizes, and More Inside!
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Welcome to Native American Heritage Month! It’s a great time to be Indigenous, and I'm excited to celebrate with you! How will you honor this special month? 🪶 So much going on! First, we’ve extended the Spin to Win game 🎰—play daily for a chance to win amazing prizes instantly! And for our Explore Native Challenge lovers, keep entering daily for even more rewards. 📢 Quick update: Facebook recently removed our group. We’re working to stay connected and keep our community strong. Be sure to read the full article below on our site to learn more about what’s happening and how you can stay connected. ✨ This Weekend: 2 Live Pow Wow Streams ✨ Thanks, Paul G P.S. Look for a bonus code hidden in this email to boost your chances in our giveaways! 👀 New Online Marketplace for Native Art & Culture I’ve got some tough news to share. Facebook has permanently removed our Pow Wow Trading Post group. With over 80,000 members, this group was an incredible space for artists to sell beadwork, skirts, regalia, art, and so much more. Sadly, due to Facebook’s policy banning any sales of animal parts (whether legal or not), our group was targeted and taken down. I reached out to Facebook support to try to resolve this, but as of now, there’s no appeal process available. The group, as we knew it, is gone. I know how devastating this is for everyone who depended on it to connect and support Native art and culture. Pow Wow Calendar UpdateSquamish Nation Veterans Pow Wow Native American Heritage Month Social & Craft Market (AZ) Southwest American Indian Collector's Expo (AZ) Utah Valley University Pow Wow Birthday Honor Dance for Dakoda Ray Unah Gatesway Disability Pow Wow Poarch Band of Creek Indians 52nd Annual Thanksgiving Pow Wow 11th Annual Cultural Celebration with The Sumter Tribe of Cheraw Spirit of the Veteran & Warrior Pow Wow 29th Annual Spirit of the Buffalo Pow Wow Shop Native Featured Seller Alica has quickly ascended to the ranks of a world-class metalsmith. While dabbling in the arts her entire life, it was not until she raised her children that she fully pursued this passion, beginning with a jewelry-making class at Haywood Community College. Wildcatt kept taking classes with teacher/mentor Greta Lutman, and learned jewelry fabrication, metal enameling, and more. Eventually, she opened her home studio, Greybeard Metalsmithing — an homage to her great-grandmother Polly’s maiden name. Wildcatt’s designs include contemporary, organically inspired shapes such as paper clip chains and elegantly attenuated silver drop earrings. In particular, she honors Cherokee designs and syllabary in her pieces. PowWows.com Native Talent “She gives me hope for the future of jazz.” – Judy Carmichael, NPR “Her voice is of another era. One of the only jazz songbirds in Indian Country.” – Revolutions per Minute Julia Keefe (Nez Perce) is a nationally acclaimed Native American jazz vocalist, actor, activist, and educator currently based in New York City. Her professional career has spanned over 15 years and she has headlined marquee events at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington D.C., NMAI-NY, as well as opened for the likes of 20-time GRAMMY Award recipient Tony Bennett and 4-time GRAMMY Award winner Esperanza Spalding. Her life’s work is the revival and honoring of the legendary Coeur d’Alene jazz musician Mildred Bailey and is leading the campaign for Bailey’s induction into the Jazz Hall of Fame at Lincoln Center. 2024 Explore Native Challenge |