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re: What really sticks in your mind regarding a good pow-wow??
By Celebrian



re: What really sticks in your mind regarding a good pow-wow??
By dust2dust


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2 Replies to What really sticks in your mind regarding a good pow-wow??

By Celebrian




On Mon Mar 13, 2006 04:43 PM
My first pow wow when I was in my teens was special to me. I remember having a 'flashback' to what it must have been like in days before (I think some call it 'racial memory'). Anyhow, I was young and afraid of that sort of thing back then so just didn't let myself think about it.
It happened again when I was in my 20s and this time I just let myself stand there, feel it, and cry. I could feel the drums in my chest and here came the emotions. Usually I wouldn't let myself do such a thing in public, but I knew some would understand what it was I was feeling. It bothers me a little that I can't describe the emotional overwhelming aspect of that very moment, but there it was.
Another special thing was when I took my son to his first pow wow. He must have been seven or eight months old. The older women there just thought he was so beautiful and passed him around, hand to hand, showing him off. It made me happy to begin showing him a part of himself at such a young age. One of the older men told my husband and myself that this boy was apart of the future of the Native peoples of this hemisphere. Proud? Yes!
Anyhow, I love packing up blankets to sit outdoors, and especially when they have them next to a river. What an experience! Frybread with strawberries, sugar or beans 'n meat; succotash, bison burgers, fresh corn...has this just degenerated into food for me? LOL!
It happened again when I was in my 20s and this time I just let myself stand there, feel it, and cry. I could feel the drums in my chest and here came the emotions. Usually I wouldn't let myself do such a thing in public, but I knew some would understand what it was I was feeling. It bothers me a little that I can't describe the emotional overwhelming aspect of that very moment, but there it was.
Another special thing was when I took my son to his first pow wow. He must have been seven or eight months old. The older women there just thought he was so beautiful and passed him around, hand to hand, showing him off. It made me happy to begin showing him a part of himself at such a young age. One of the older men told my husband and myself that this boy was apart of the future of the Native peoples of this hemisphere. Proud? Yes!
Anyhow, I love packing up blankets to sit outdoors, and especially when they have them next to a river. What an experience! Frybread with strawberries, sugar or beans 'n meat; succotash, bison burgers, fresh corn...has this just degenerated into food for me? LOL!

By dust2dust



On Tue Mar 21, 2006 06:14 PM
I used to dance in pow wows (even though im not native american) So i would say a good beat (My adoptive grandmother is native american, so thats were i got into that.)
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