Native America Calling

Today, April, 21 – The year without powwows?

One year rain nearly flooded out the Gathering of Nations Powwow in Albuquerque. Another year the music tent almost blew away. But disasters big and small failed to halt the event that attracts tens of thousands of participants and spectators every year. “But this … this is something else,” said GON founder Derek Mathews, speaking about the coronavirus bringing his and all public gatherings across the globe to a screeching halt. The health emergency is cancelling big and small powwows for the foreseeable future leaving event organizers, dancers and vendors in uncertainty.

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