The Daily Northwestern

Native American and Indigenous Student Alliance welcomes community music, dancing at 5th annual Spring Pow Wow

Northwestern’s Native American and Indigenous Student Alliance hosted its fifth annual Spring Pow Wow at Welsh-Ryan Arena on ...
The Morning Sun

Westernaires end Native American dancing program after decades of Indigenous pushback

After decades of criticism from Indigenous communities, the Golden-based Westernaires will end their program that teaches and portrays Native American dancing to Colorado youth, the horse-riding ...
Sacramento Bee

Sacramento Native American youth use dance for mental health. ‘Reclaiming your power’

Native youth in Sacramento use powwow dances like jingle as cultural healing tools. Traditional practices address trauma and mental illness amid limited Native therapists. Culturally rooted events ...
KOAT Albuquerque

All-native dance team heads to World Championships this summer

SEVEN NEWS. A LOCAL, ALL NATIVE DANCE AND CHEER TEAM IS MAKING THEIR WAY TO WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS THIS YEAR, AND IT’S A STORY YOU’LL ONLY SEE HERE ON SEVEN. ALYSSA MUNOZ SPOKE WITH THEM ABOUT HOW THEIR ...
The Columbian

Dancing and drumming at Vancouver powwow one part of keeping Indigenous culture alive in the Northwest

Civil rights, political upheaval and the uncertain future are on the minds of Indigenous citizens as they prepare for the annual traditional powwow set for Saturday at Clark College. Hundreds of ...

Westernaires to end all Native American portrayals — including Battle of Little Bighorn

The organization’s Board of Directors sent a letter promising to halt “all programs that teach and portray Native American ...
Smithsonian Magazine

How This Weekend’s Native American Hoop Dance Championships Mark the Rebirth of a Dynamic Art Form

In 1991, my father and I decided to host a unique event to preserve a Native artform that began in the Southwest and transform it into a World Championship Contest. Little did we know our ...
unr.edu

Global Kids Camp teaches about Native Americans

The Global Kids Cultural Summer Camp, hosted by the University's Northern Nevada International Center, gives children in first through eighth grade the opportunity to explore the Great Basin’s Native ...