{"id":72130,"date":"2018-10-11T15:04:04","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T20:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=72130"},"modified":"2018-10-11T15:04:04","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T20:04:04","slug":"dancing-for-community-at-the-65th-annual-chicago-powwow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/dancing-for-community-at-the-65th-annual-chicago-powwow\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Dancing for community&#8221; at the 65th Annual Chicago Powwow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Katie Rice<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Medill Reports<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"dropcap\">Poised on their toes, the dancers pivot around the room to a thrumming drum beat. Jingling bells accompany their movements as feathers sway from fans, regalia and headdresses in a whirl of color and texture.<\/p>\n<p>The celebration echoes far beyond the gymnasium of DePaul College Prep High School into the balmy October afternoon.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<iframe title=\"&amp;quot;Dancing for community&amp;quot; at the 65th Annual Chicago Powwow\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/294629252?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The American Indian Center of Chicago hosted the 65th Annual Chicago Powwow last weekend, an intertribal festival attracting dancers and attendees from across the United States.<\/p>\n<p>One dancer, Jaycob Johnson, said he drove 48 hours from Sacramento, California, to attend the powwow. Johnson, of the Oneida Nation, danced the \u201cgrass dance,\u201d a symmetrical, sweeping dance to mimic the movement of the prairie.<\/p>\n<p>This powwow was a competition powwow, said Forrest Bruce, secretary of the board of directors of the American Indian Center of Chicago. Of the two main types of powwows, competition and traditional, competition powwows tend to be stricter and more formal.<\/p>\n<p>For many dancers, the prospect of winning a dance category \u2014 and the cash that comes with it \u2014 is fun but not the main focus of a powwow. Powwows bring family and friends together, and they provide an opportunity to reconnect through culture and tradition.<\/p>\n<p>Adrian King, of Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) and Oneida heritage, said the Chicago Powwow is a homecoming. He lives on the Lac du Flambeau Reservation of the Lake Superior Chippewa (Ojibwe).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s always been a good connector to friends and family,\u201d he said. \u201cA lot of people have used the powwow to come together and meet new family, like extended family.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s one key importance of a powwow, so we don\u2019t lose that connection of who we are and who we\u2019re related to \u2014 because the Indian Reorganization Act [of 1934] already did that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bruce said many in the current American Indian community\u00a0 migrated to the Chicago area since the 1950s, when the Urban Relocation Program brought an influx of people from reservations to urban areas. Native people have lived here for at least 13,000 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNatives in Chicago just wanted to come together and share their dancing and their traditions, and the powwow is kind of what came from it, and now we do it every year,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Every dance has a story behind it, Bruce said, and the regalia has significance too. For example, the \u201cjingle dress,\u201d an Ojibwe dress traditionally adorned with rolled snuff can lids, is associated with healing and medicine.<\/p>\n<p>Competition powwows are open to Native and non-Native people. Some dancers, like King, have found that powwows can start discussions about American Indian cultures and traditions with people of all heritages.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome people have questions, but they never ask anything, so they\u2019re still going to be at ground zero. They\u2019re not going to move forward into this relationship of understanding each other,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>While King welcomes questions on everything from his regalia to his powwow experiences, he asks that people be respectful.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy one friend said, \u2018We\u2019re not Walt Disney,\u2019\u201d said King. \u201c\u2018Don\u2019t take my picture just because I\u2019m here walking around enjoying part of my way of life.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"featurecaption\">Photo at top: A dancer concentrates on his movements at the 65th Annual Chicago Powwow last weekend at DePaul College Prep High School. (Photo and video: Katie Rice\/MEDILL)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Katie Rice Medill Reports Poised on their toes, the dancers pivot around the room to a thrumming drum beat. Jingling bells accompany their movements as feathers sway from fans, regalia and headdresses in a whirl of color and texture. 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