North America's largest powwow to end

Axios ^ | August 19, 2025 | Russell Contreras

[Red Badger]

We have a local Pow-wow here as well............

[Magnum44]

ending because? I dont want to be cynical but is it because the government funding dried up?

[HYPOCRACY]

Pocahontas will be the final guest speaker.

[1Old Pro]

White Liberal Women stopped it, said it was demeaning to Native Americans......

[Red Badger]

High ticket and booth fees is part of it...............

[crusty old prospector]

That is one tubby chief. Too much bison jerky in the evening.

[Red Badger]

I resemble that remark!........................

[crusty old prospector]

My advice to you is to lay off the blue corn porridge and fry bread.

[DallasBiff]

The lady third from the right could be Judy Garland’s twin.

[Zuriel]

Too many chiefs, too few indians??

[Leaning Right]

I heard that they’re ending this powwow because they were tired of dealing with frauds trying to sneak in. For example, this weirdo has been showing up at the front gate ever since the event began.

[ansel12]

Check his left arm, does he think he is Jackie Onassis?

[bert]

I was thinking just the opposite. All of Europe came together for a purpose that did not involve their own separate axes to grind.

That in it’s self is significant.

[uranium penguin]

“High ticket and booth fees is part of it...............”

Could not fit enough slot machines in one booth to be profitable?

I do not know.. But a lot of times events like this become so over commercialized that the essence of why it is held gets lost.

If the point is for groups to see their own and other group’s histories and interact, That should be free.

If all of a sudden it is $100 to get in the door. That stops a LOT of people bringing their kids.

And if the focus has turned into a swap meet and fried dough stand with carney games.. It has lost ALL ethnic/ cultural meaning.

[fidelis]

[Photo caption] "Dancers prepare for the grand enterance [sic] at the Gathering of Nations in April 2017 in Albuquerque, N.M. Photo: Russell Contreras/Axios"

If that chubby chief is a dancer, I'm Fred Astaire. Besides, he has a Nazi logo on his left sleeve (I know, I know--this symbol has been part of Native American symbolic art for centuries. Just joshing.)

[AppyPappy]

Too many pretendians likely. You have to prove ancestry but liberals could cite Inclusion.

[xp38]

She seems to have a cultural appropriation level of makeup on but also a bunch of hearts with a cross within so who knows for sure where she is from.

[Alas Babylon!]

I like the squaws. They look a little ticked off, though.

[ansel12]

I got to see a lot of the New Mexico/Southwest Indian stuff in the 1950s, dances and art, I wonder how different it was back then from today.