Student Example - Powwow Project
Student Example - Powwow Project
Student Example - Powwow Project
What is a Powwow?
A powwow is a social
gathering held by many
different native american
communities
What do People
Wear to Powwows?
They were regalias, they
have bright and colourful.
Parts of a Powwow
Grand Entrance It's like a parade, hosting first nations. There's singing and dancing
Drum Circle Musicians ( usually men ) sit around a bid drum and sing as the beat to the
drum
Dances Everyone is welcome. Men and women go separately. Men and women do
traditional.
● The meaning or
story of the
dance
Hoop dancing is a form of
storytelling through dance.
An Indigenous hoop dancer
uses hoops to create
shapes as they move to
music. The hoops represent
animals, symbols and
designs that are sometimes
put together to make
spheres.
The men usually do
the hoop dancing.
Pictures of
regalia!