Sentence examples for this powwow from inspiring English sources

But instead of a classic computer trade show, where thousands of consumers buy an all-day ticket so they can be herded into an auditorium filled with nondescript exhibitor booths, this powwow is decidedly informal.

While Gibney won't tell me exactly where or when this powwow will take place, he does reveal that it will be held sometime in early May, with the invites coming out this week.

This intertribal powwow honors Indian veterans.

In its annual dance program and powwow, this 30-member company will present dances, stories and traditional music from the Iroquois and from other American Indians from the Northwest coast, the Southwest, the Plains and the Arctic.

The 27th annual Denver Powwow this March drew 40,000 visitors to three days of American Indian dances and storytelling, and sales and displays of pottery, jewelry, hand-woven rugs and turquoise jewelry.

"The fact that America would honor this man is preposterous," said Cliff Matias, lead organizer of the powwow and a lifelong Brooklyn resident who claims blood ties with Latin America's Taino and Kichwa nations.

This way you are sure you have enough essentials to last the powwow at the lowest prices.

Its appeal, said Andrew (Sonny) Campbell of Central Islip, the powwow committee chairman, can be traced to "James Fenimore Cooper and his 'Noble Savage,' which made people aware of this whole different lifestyle.

Don't miss the Grand Entry opening the powwow.

Coming up this summer are a powwow festival (July 11 and 12) with native dances, songs and crafts, as well as a field day (Aug. 4) where kids compete in native games and sports such as lacrosse, shinny (something like field hockey) and spear tossing with an atlatl, a kind of sling.

This is an intertribal powwow, Southern California style.