West Valley College 24th Annual Powwow
Saturday, October 6, 2012
West Valley College Learning Services: Lawn Area
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14000 Fruitvale Ave.
Saratoga CA 95070
Free Admission
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All Cultures & Ages Welcome
Powwow Committee Chair: Jose Bautista, Jose.Bautista@westvalley.edu
408-741-2492
Volunteers contact Leslie, leslie_saito@westvalley.edu
For more than twenty years, people of all ages and cultures have met each fall at the West Valley College campus to enjoy singing, drumming, and dancing, while broadening their understanding of Native American individuals, tribes, and nations.
The regalia worn by the dancers is a colorful and exciting sight with feather bustles, fringed shawls and elaborate beadwork flashing about as they dance to the beat of the drums. This is also a competition powwow so winners in each dance category are selected at the end of the powwow.
Our mission is to provide a cultural event that embodies the traditional and modern life ways of Native Americans and recognizes the scholastic accomplishments of our district’s Native American students through the Donald M. Johnson Scholarship Fund. When Johnson retired from West Valley College in 2000, the faculty, staff and administration elected to rename the Native American Scholarship in his honor. Don was the faculty member who worked with students to bring the powwow to West Valley College. He is an enrolled member of the Standing Rock Lakota tribe.
We hope that you will join us for this year’s Powwow. You can help support this annual event and the scholarship fund by donating money, goods, or services. You can also help by contributing to our endowments. All drums and dancers welcome. Contest dancing, all ages. Indian Arts & Crafts, Indian Tacos, Fry Bread, Drawings, Gourd Dance & More!
Host Staff:
Master of Ceremonies, Randy Pico
Arena Director, Eugene Newman
Head Man Dancer, Paul Flores
Head Woman Dancer, Niko DeRoin
Head Boy Dancer, Robert LeRoy Jr.
Head Girl Dancer, Justina Duran
Host Northern Drum, All Nations Singers
Host Southern Drum, Southern Express
