Sentence examples for the powwow from inspiring English sources
noun
A ritual conducted by a Native American shaman.
The POWWOW is frank, earthy, real.
Don't miss the Grand Entry opening the powwow.
Once the powwow began, the drum was as incessant as a heartbeat.
The powwow dance is also at the center of the movie you wrote and directed, "The Business of Fancydancing".
Brantford's Grand River Powwow and the Curve Lake Powwow are two near Toronto on the "Powwow Trail".
"I don't look at it like she gave up her native beliefs," he said as he got a Mohawk Bear Clan tattoo in a tent at the powwow.
MATT DELLINGER: The main object in your story, the pawned item, is the powwow-dance regalia of the narrator's grandmother.
The powwows begin at 2 and 5. Tickets are $10, or $1 for children under 12, from (212 254-1109, or from www.theaterforthenewcity.org.org
Now the powwows are social events that take place every weekend from Memorial Day to Labor Day.
He comes from the Garden River First Nation Reserve, a member of the Ojibway people, and grew up dancing in the powwows and performing the role of Hiawatha in his family's version of the traditional Ojibway tale, appropriated by Longfellow.
When we got back in the truck on our way to the Pawnee Powwow, the sun had slipped so quickly beyond the horizon that we could almost feel the earth turning.
