Just wanted to say hi!

Howdy Temakwe! welcome to the AFP forums!

I'd be interested in hearing more about these powwows that you preform in, I know myself & my daughter would absolutely love to come watch & learn more about native American traditions.

Hi Richard!

 I used to be the "Master of Ceremonies" , (MC) at many different powwows on the west coast. Orange county, Stanford Univ. Chico State, Sacramento, Fresno, Modesto etc.  Covered about thirty years worth. I actually preferred to sing at the drum than do the MC thing.  Maybe people were trying to tell me something, "don't sing"!  Yikes, what a thought!  Oh well, at my age I am going to sing as long as I can squeak out one more sound.  Let me know what you want to know about powwows.  I first attended one in the early fifties.

i have never been to a pow wow and  that is a sham. my mom is 1/4 Chickasaw Indian . her family is from ok  and moved to San Antonia , Texas before she was born.

Temakwe,

I think it's great that you & folks like you are so dedicated in keeping those ancient ceremonies & traditions alive! I tip my hat to you sir!

Please let us know if you are coming here to Anderson for the powwow, I think we'd really enjoy meeting you!

Well Queen Jackie, there seems to be a lot of people here in Oklahoma that hasn't been to a powwow.  Sometimes when we are young we have no say in those matters.  As we get older we make choices that are personal and can make a difference in one's life.  The place you find yourself in this great journey called life is based on those choices, or lack of.  What seemed good when you are ten may not be so good when you are thirty and so on.  Who can say where they will be one year from now?  Enjoy the present!

I really do enjoy meeting people from all over. Everyone has a different story but basically we share the same book.  I will be in Peosta , Iowa around the first of September doing a presentation for, of all things, a Monastery group.  I am looking forward to seeing their library! Oh I forgot to mention, I graduated from the Univ. of Davis in Calif. in 1998 at the age of fifty-two! (Applied Behavioral Science).  I minored in Native American Studies.

i did  not even no i had Indian in me till i was 16  and a dentist i went to to have a root canel done looked in my mouth  and then looked at me  and told me that i had a lot of Indian  in me  and asked me questions  . i told him i did not no and asked how can you tell  and he said the back of my bottom teeth are like little spoons. after i got done  i asked my mom  and  she told me.

I am glad you found out!

Welcome Temakwe. I don't know what happened but I had three or four post here this morning.

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