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University Daily Kansan, April 27, 1984
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Powwow preserves Indian dancing and customs
By SEAN WHEELER
Staff Reporter
The celebration is rich in Americana and steeped in tradition, but its name does not conjure up images of baseball or apple pie.
Instead, participants are more likely to think of the beating drums, dances and feathered costumes of a way of life that has assumed a thousand years.
The Sioux call the celebration "waipiip," but for many people it is more readily known by another name — the powwow.
"The powow is strictly a social junction," said Marlene LleClair, a Potawatomi Indian who has been helping plan this weekend's Centennial Powow at Haskell Indian Junior College.
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THE PROCEDES FROM the annual spring powwow, sponsored by Haskell's Inter-Tribal Club, will go to the 1984-85 Cenennial庆祝节.
The ceremonies, which begin at 7 p.m. today and run through Sunday, are open to the public. Admission for senior citizens and children under 12.
Powwow activities begin at 1 p.m. tomorrow and Sunday. Sunday's dancing will feature final competition in eight categories of dancing.
In addition to the Indian drummers and singers and the varied tribal dances and competitions, concession stands featuring tribal foods and Indian arts and crafts will be set up on the grounds.
Participation won't be restricted to Indians, and everyone can join in with
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"There's a lot of organization that goes into a powwow," LaClair said.
ALTHOUGH SINGING AND dancing are an important part of the powwow, it is more than just a big party.
the two-step and the snake dance, club members said.
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Powwows are held for many occasions and may be religious in nature, a memorial to someone or a tribute to a special event or time.
"A powwow will often start with an invocation or a blessing of the grounds." LaClair said.
The powwow, which originated with
the Powwow people, can last from one
day to more than a month.
In addition to being an enjoyable event, the powwows do something very important - preserve tradition.
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BUT TRADITION IS difficult to keep alive in a culture that is not predominately Sioux.
"It's hard for me to say what I want to keep traditional in my home." KillsEnemy said. "Powwows really are all that's left for American Indians to get back to tradition with."
Acculturation, however, has had an effect on the powwows, too. KillenEney said that her grandfather once told her that powwows had changed somewhat over the years. He told her that they used to be religious events or were held to perform medicine. Women weren't allowed.
"Powwows are a big traditional gathering," said Sheila KillsEnemy, a
William K. Coors, cochairman, apologized for comments he made on Feb. 23 to a group of Denver minority businessmen in a letter to Russ Placec, co-chairman, and Senate delegate Minority Affairs Committee.
Still, the powwows continue to reinforce a solidarity among Indians.
the chairman of the Adolph Coors Co. yesterday apologized in a letter for his "insensitive choice of words" that prompted several KU student groups to declare boycots against the company.
graduate of Haskell now attending the University of Kansas, whose Indian bloodlines are mostly Sioux.
Pitacek said that three committee representatives were planning to accept an invitation from Coors officials to visit the brewers in
Coors sends apology letter to KU minority affairs head
Golden, Colo., this summer. On Wednesday, the Senate approved a petition asking that the Kansas Union Memorial Board stop selling Coors beer in the Union.
In the speech, Coors said, "It's not that the dedication among the blacks is less; in fact, it's greater. They lack the intellectual capacity to succeed and it's taking them down the tubes."
"There is nothing that can justify what William Coors said," Ptacek said.
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In his letter, Coors said, "I simply was attempting to express the fact that black people, as do all people, have a much greater opportunity for economic success in our country than anywhere in the world."
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