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By Diane Baltaz

On the weekend of July 28 and 29, the 33rd Grand River “Champion of Champions” Powwow takes place. As al-ways, it will be at Chiefswood Park on Highway 54 by the Grand River, south of Brant-ford.

As its name implies, the “Champion of Champions” Powwow is an Indian Dance Competition. Since the first powwow in 1980, the event has become one of the top powwows in North America, drawing dancers from across Canada and the United States. Good Aboriginal dancers of-ten follow a summer dance circuit from one weekend to the next, where they can earn up to $1,000 in some dance categories.

The “Champion of Champi-ons Powwow” is what is known as a competitive powwow. It exemplifies part of the “pan-Indianism” movement that influences Six Nations, mean-ing that many of the standard powwow customs originated

from other First Nations. Also, the dances are inter-tribal, with members of non-Iroquoian na-tions also competing.

Like traditional, non-com-petitive powwows where peo-ple dance and sing purely for the love of it, the competitive powwow is a social occasion. The song and dances are not sacred or religious in nature, although the site is blessed by a community elder and hon-our songs are sung during the Grand Entry, which marks the start of the event. This is not the aboriginal version of the old-fashioned Bible camp meet-ing.

Some people believe that the term, “powwow” origi-nated from the Narragansett word, powwaw, meaning “spiritual leader.” The Cana-dian Oxford Dictionary states that the word originated from the Algonquian, powah, pow-wah, meaning “magician” or literally, “he dreams”. Today it is commonly defined as an Aboriginal cultural gathering of dancing, singing, visiting, re-newing old friendships, making

new ones, eating, and honour-ing Aboriginal Culture.

Some dictionaries define powwow as “a conference for meeting and discussion, par-ticularly for military officials to discuss maneuvers, but such usage is often viewed as dis-respectful toward Aboriginal culture

Following “the powwow cir-cuit” are First Nations craftspeo-ple selling their wares. These are various, handmade items, such as beaded buckskin moccasins, vests, jackets, pol-ished bone chokers and jew-elry, and even feather bustles like the kind worn by the danc-ers. Some traditional designs are worked into modern items such as wrist-watch bands or teddy bears. Food vendors sell traditional native cuisine, such as Indian tacos, corn soup, strawberry juice, Indian pizza (fry bread topped with pizza sauce and cheese) as well as venison and buffalo burgers.

The “Champion of Champi-ons” Powwow has more than 100 craft and food vendors in total.

The resulting atmosphere is like a county fair, set in an idyl-lic setting behind the historic Chiefswood Mansion with the Grand River drifting gently to-wards Lake Erie.

“There is quite the activity that goes on here (at the pow-wow),” says Onondaga Con-federacy Chief Arnie General. “It is very artistic, and the peo-ple are very friendly. The craft place is excellent, with millions of crafts for sale. And the pow-wow has terrific food at rea-sonable rates.”

Some say that this annual gathering rivals the splen-dor of cultural events such as the Calgary Stampede, the Shakespearian Festival in Strat-ford and the Quebec Winter Carnival.

In short, this weekend is meant for fun, sharing aborigi-nal traditions, and for creating great memories.

Powwow time is Six Nations Time!

Nya:weh (thank you) for experiencing the Grand River “Champion of Champions” Powwow!

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By Diane Baltaz

The Champion of Champi-ons Powwow involves many components and players. Here is a brief synopsis of who and what you will encounter.

The Powwow Commit-tee: Planning for powwows takes months, even for well-established ones such as the “Champion of Champions”. The committee is the group of people who do the back-ground work. This involves publicity, hiring any necessary staff, recruiting vendors who pay for the right to set up food and merchandise booths, and handles the countless on-site details for hosting the pow-wow.

Master of Ceremonies, or MC: This person is the voice of the powwow. The MC keeps the singers, dancers and pub-lic informed about what is happening. The MC decides the schedule of events, includ-ing the drum rotation – the or-der in which each drum group gets to sing. MCs engage the crowd, filling in the dead air time with commentaries, an-nouncements and even some jokes.

The Dance Arena: The en-closed circle where the danc-ers and drum groups perform. The arena has four “gates” or entranceways, at the north, south, east and west spots, with springs of cedar sprinkled around the outer perimeter. The covered arbour in the centre harbours the drum-mers, MC, elders, and other key personnel.

The Arena Director: Some-times called “the whip man”, coordinates the activities in the dance circle including the Grand Entry and the Retiring of the Flags. The arena director is often responsible for providing judges for competitions. A pri-mary duty of the arena direc-tor is to ensure that the dance area is respected.

Elders: The host community always invites a male and a female elder to preside over the event. An elder usually gives the invocation during the Grand Entry.

Host Drums and Drum Groups: These performers pro-vide the music for the dances, honour songs and other ac-tivities. They play a specially designed drum and sing tra-ditional songs, and often par-ticipate in the powwow man-agement. The host drum is the

drum group that is primarily responsible for providing the music that the dancers dance to. There are usually at least four drummers.Each drum has a Lead Singer who runs the drum .

Songs sung include the Grand Entry song, a flag song, a veteran’s or victory song at the event’s start. They also sing closing songs, and any other special songs required during the day.

Head Dancers: The head dancers lead the other danc-ers in the Grand Entry or pa-rade of dancers that opens the powwow. They consist of the Head Man Dancer and the Head Woman Dancer, and often there are head Girl and Boy Dancers. The head dancers have the honour and responsibility of leading the other dancers during songs.

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Attending a powwow is like visiting a friend’s party or their cottage – your presence is welcome and you will return home with good memories. But like these other visits, pow-wows have their own etiquette to make your day more enjoy-able.

Stand during the Grand Entry. And Hats Off Too: The Master of Ceremonies will signal when the Grand Entry begins. Everyone must stand and remain standing when the Eagle Staff and flags are carried into the arena. People remain standing during the In-vocation, the Flag Song, the Veteran’s Song, the Memorial

Song, and other designated songs.

Never enter the Arena Af-ter it has been Blessed: The Arbour is blessed during the Grand Entry. The only time that guests can enter this space is to join in Intertribal Dances, Blanket Dances, or any other dance that the MC may an-nounce.

Don’t call a Dancer’s Rega-lia a “Costume”! These beau-tifully-crafted “Regalia” signify special honours, events in the dancer’s life, or symbols root-ed in legends or religious tradi-tions. Regalia are often made by the dancer or by a close relative or friend, the process possibly taking months of la-bour. They can become heir-

looms. Feathers are especially sacred.

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Each dance session begins with a Grand Entry, a proces-sion of dancers. The Flag Bear-ers lead the procession carry-ing the Eagle Staff, American Flag, Canadian Flag, and fre-quently, the MIA-POW flag. Being a Flag Bearer is an honor usually given to a veteran, a respected traditional dancers, or a traditional elder. Indian Royalty are next, consisting of tribal and organizational princesses and other dignitar-ies. The Head Dancers lead a single file procession of danc-ers arranged by category and age. Everyone is asked to stand during the Grand Entry and men should remove their head coverings unless it has

an eagle feather.After all the dancers are in

the Arbor, a flag song is sung to honor the Eagle Staff and the flags. Then a respected person, usually an elder, of-fers a prayer. This is followed by a victory song during which the Eagle Staff and flags are placed in their standards. At this time the Master of Cere-monies will introduce the Head Dancers and Royalty.

Flag Song: To the Dakota people, this is the National An-them. This song is sung at any such times that one would sing the National Anthem. The Flag song is always sung at the be-ginning of a pow wow or spe-cial event. This song should be given the same respect as your own flag. We do not dance to this song as it is for the flag to

dance.Veteran’s Song: This type of

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By Diane Baltaz

There are many types of dances which men and wom-en perform at powwows. Many of them originated from Northern and Plains Indian tribes, such as the Lakota and the Omaha, and are now popular at powwows through-out Canada and the USA.

The dances generally fall into three categories for each sex. The men have the Men’s Traditional, Grass and Men’s Fancy Dance. The women dance the Fancy Shawl, Jin-gle Dress and Women’s Tra-ditional. In most dances, the dancer moves with the beat of the drum ending with both feet on the ground during the

final beat.Both men and women dress

in ornate buckskin, or leather, traditional beads, feathers, shells, all ornately hand-made. Or colours come in daring lime green, neon pink, orange or bold blue. Different dances have different regalia.

All of the dances centre around the circle – not just the arena itself, but as the common movement. To Ab-originals, the circle of life it symbolizes is endless, and has therefore been celebrated for generations. The circle is always entered through the eastern gate, and the danc-ers move in the same direc-tion as the sun.

The Men’s Fancy or Feather

Dance, originated in Okla-homa around the 1930s, mak-ing it one of the more modern powwow dances. This dance is so fast moving with its jumps and twirling that dancers train for stamina and agility in or-der to do it. These athletes wear multi-coloured regalia, to represent the rainbow spir-its. Regalia typically include two brightly-coloured feather bustles with added ribbon, feather or horse hair hack-les and bright arm and head bands. The headdress roach, as it is called, is trimmed in coloured horsehair and two eagle feathers. The roach is designed to keep the eagle feathers twirling as the dancer spins, turns and squats. They carry a decorated coup stick, a reminder from warrior days gone by. It was considered an act of bravery if warriors can

touch their enemy with their coup stick – and live to talk about it!

The Women’s Fancy Shawl also has fairly modern roots. It has evolved from its early days in the 1960s when it was called the Graceful Shawl, with the dance steps being closer to the ground and smaller than what women dance today. Like the Men’s Fancy, it is extremely athletic and fast-moving, with speed, kicks and twirls, with the dancers wear-ing highly-beaded moccasins. The most striking part of their regalia are the ornately-dec-orated shawls, with long rib-bons or fringes that dramatize their rapid movements.

The Men’s Grass Dance is rooted in rich lore, with various stories about its movements.

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by Diane Baltaz

The Men’s and Women’s Traditional Dances are the oldest forms of Aboriginal powwow dance practiced in today’s First Nations Cul-ture. These dances are quite popular among the older, golden age catego-ry (age 50-plus) although dancers of all ages partici-pate.

The men’s regalia hints of the dance’s timelessness: it is thought to represent the animals which the Creator

made. Watch the dance movements and you will see the ancient warrior stalking the game or bat-tling the enemy.

In spite of the traditional story behind the dance, the design of each man’s regalia is an extremely personal expression of cre-atively and meaning. But all of the traditional dance regalia share common ele-ments: breast plates made of animal bones or shells that “protect” the dancer from enemy arrows; the

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Traditional Dances neck choker to protect him from knives; an animal hide shield dec-orated with significant tribal sym-bols, and ankle bells.

Usually the dancer wears a sin-gle bustle or headpiece contain-ing eagle feathers. These feathers are considered sacred, as the ea-gle is the animal which carries the people’s prayers to the Creator.

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Some say that it resem-bled the movements of early scouts looking for new sites for homes, stomping down the tall prairie grasses as they did. Others see the movements as warriors stalking game or fight-ing their enemy. Or the dance is a gift from the

Creator to celebrate joy. Grass Dance re-galia includes long strands of yarn, rib-bon or fabric to rep-resent the swaying of the grass as the men stomp – or in some the-ories, the hair from en-emy scalps. As in the Men’s Fancy dance, a headdress called a roach is worn.

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Originating from the South-ern United States, the Wom-

en’s Traditional Dance has very focused movements as the women dance around the circle to the beat of the drum. The drum plays “honour beats”, to which the women respond to by raising their fans to honour both the drum and their male kinfolk. The dance

requires much stamina and grace in addi-

tion to concentration. As in the Men’s Traditional

Dance, the women’s regalia is quite personalized. They usual-ly carry a folded fringed shawl held gracefully over one arm, and also a feather fan (usu-ally eagle but it can be from a ruffed grouse or other bird). You will also see an awl and a knife case on her belt.

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Grand Entryconflict. To the Dakota people, a veteran is a warrior that should always be honored. In this way, those that served this country may dance and be honored.

Sneak Up: This is a scout’s dance. It is often sung after the veteran’s song in a pow wow. The dance is a story of how a warrior would go ahead of the party to scout out the area for the enemy or game. Four times the song is sung through, starting with a rolling beat while the dancers attempt to sneak up on their target. The song then goes into a fast steady beat that stops instantly. The dancers must stop on the beat or retreat to try again. After the fourth stop of the song, the singers will continue two more times through the song until the end.

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Golden Age MenFirst: Howie Copenace, Whitefish Bay, Ontario

Golden Age WomenFirst : Karen Pheasant, Nation: Anishnabe

Men TraditionalFirst : Gabriel Cleveland, Nation: Ho Chunk, Wis-consin Dells, WI

Women TraditionalFirst : Kristol Abel, Nation: Ojibway City: Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario

Men FancyFirst : Josh Hill Nation: La-kota Seneca

Women FancyFirst : Rose Track, Nation: Pima Assiniboine, Sioux City, Oneida, WI

Men GrassFirst: Adam Nordwall, Na-tion: Shoshone Chippewa Navajo, Stillwater, OK

Women JingleFirst: Challis Isaac, Nation: Navajo, Sarnia, Ontario

Teen Men TraditionalFirst: Talon White-Eye, Na-tion: Ojibwe

Teen Women TraditionalFirst: Tarilynn Tone-Pah-Hote, Nation: Kiowa Oneida

Teen Men FancyFirst: Tony Klein, Nation: Oeida Ho Chunk Ojibwa, Taylor, MI

Teen Women FancyFirst: Naomi Nevaquaya, Nation: Camanche Si-cangu Lakota, Apache, OK

Teen Men GrassFirst: Quinton Wilson, Na-tion: Navajo Mohawk, Akwesasne, NY

Teen Women JingleFirst: Rebekah Tate Nevaquaya, Nation: Co-manche Sicangu Lakota

Boys TraditionalFirst: Buddy TonePah Hote, Nation:Kiowa Oneida

Girls TraditionalFirst: Jaelynn Smoke, Na-tion: Dakota Ojibway

Boys FancyFirst: Cyrus Storm Sino-pole, Sarnia, Ontario

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Bring Your Own Lawn Chairs: There are bleachers, but seating may be limited. Set them up along the circle outside the arena. Seat-ing under the arbour itself are meant for the dancers, drummers and other pow-wow participants. There are designated sitting areas for elders and disabled persons. If you see space in the seat-ing area, ask if you can place your chair there.

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Listen to the MC: He will make various announce-ments, explain some of the dance traditions and inform visitors and dancers of other protocol.

Have a Good Time! Pow-wows are social times to meet old friends, make new ones, chat with vendors, dancers and other powwow partici-pants and to enjoy powwow food. It is a fun day that you will not forget.

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By Diane Baltaz

One dance that is danced in east-ern powwows that has a Six Nations or “Haudenosaunee” roots is the Smoke Dance.

Like other dances, different danc-ers give different explanations how the dance came to be. The most popular one comes from the days when the Haudenosaunee lived in longhouses. During winter months, the fire pits in the centre of these communal dwellings cre-ated thick smoke. Young men danced to create enough air circulation to push the smoke upwards towards the vents. Soon young women rivaled the men’s steps with smoke-pushing movements of their own.

Some Six Nations elders and those from the Osage Nation in the Unit-ed States Mid-West talked about the dance as a “transfer” between nations: the Osage danced for visitors or during gift-giving sessions among themselves. The Seneca, who comprise one of the Six Nations, lived close enough to the Osage that they brought this dance back home.

Most likely the Smoke Dance has war-time roots. The Haudenosaunee had war dances that helped warriors pre-pare for battle – slow, heavy, dramatic movements that mimicked the bravery

needed for the battle field. Eventually, the war dance lost its original purpose and became a social dance that even-tually became the Smoke Dance.

By the time the powwow circuit took hold in the mid-twentieth century, the smoke dance became a way for danc-ers to show off their foot-fancy athleti-cism. Its war-time origin became so re-mote that women began dancing it in public during the 1960s, even though women were banned from “war danc-es”. Its ceremonial overtones long gone, some say that the dance is an outlet that encourages young dancers to go into the arena and show off their talent.

Both sexes have fun doing it. Wom-en dancers almost fly across the arena with zesty steps in keeping with the fast beat of the drum. The men dance more slowly, in the spirit of the old ceremonial days when it was a war dance. How-ever, both men and women use similar footwork, with individuals dancing to their own particular interpretation of the dance.

The music and regalia are simpler than the other dances. A solo singer provides the music. Men may wear an apron over a cloth top and pants, with beadwork, and instead of a bustle, a feathered cap called a gustoweh. Women wear cloth dresses with raised beadwork or appliques.

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