Powwow

Clyde Ellis is an associate professor of history at Elon University. He is the author of To Change Them Forever: Indian Education at the Rainy Mountain Boarding School, 1893 1920, and A Dancing People: Powwow Culture on the Southern Plains. Luke Eric Lassiter is an associate professor of anthropology at Ball State University. He is the author of The Power of Kiowa Song: A Collaborative Ethnography and coauthor (with Clyde Ellis and Ralph Kotay) of The Jesus Road: Kiowas, Christianity, and Indian Hymns (Nebraska 2002). Gary H. Dunham is the director of the University of Nebraska Press.

Introduction (Clyde Ellis & Luke Eric Lassiter) I. History and Significance 1. "The Sound of the Drum Will Revive Them and Make Them Happy" (Clyde Ellis); 2.Some Reflections on Nearly Forty Years on the Northern Plains Powwow Circuit (Patricia Albers and Bea Medicine); 3. Ho-Chunk "Indian Powwows" of the Early Twentieth Century (Grant Arndt); 4. Local Contexts of Powwow Ritual (Loretta Fowler) II. Performance and Expression 5. Putting Things in Order: The Discourse of Tradition (R.D. Theisz); 6. The Songs of our Elders: Performance and Cultural Survival in Omaha and Dane-zaa Traditions (Robin Ridington, Dennis Hastings, and Tommy Attachie); 7. Powwow Patter: Indian Emcee Discourse on Power and Identity (Daniel Gelo); 8. Beauty is Youth: The Powwow Princess (Kathleen Glenister Roberts); 9. East Meets West: On Stomp Dance and Powwow Worlds in Oklahoma (Jason Jackson) III. Appropriations, Negotiations, and Contestations 10. The Monacan Nation Powwow: Symbol of Indigenous Survival and Resistance in the Tobacco Row Mountains (Samuel Cook, John L. Johns, and Karenne Wood); 11. Two-Spirit Powwows and the Search for Acceptance in Indian Country (Brian J. Gilley); 12. Powwow Overseas: The German Experience (A. Renae Watchman); 13. Dancing With Indians and Wolves: New Agers Tripping Through Powwows (Lisa Aldred); 14. Purposes of North Carolina Powwows (Chris Goertzen)