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I think that with the money contest, alot of things have changed for money. When it comes to traditional dances, no contest you still see people representing their nations.
But....when it comes to contests...what wins is what becomes predominant.
My tribe wears the ribbon work skirts and satin tops. I wear this but I also have a buckskin for contesting. When you think about it all the nations probably wore buckskins. We did't have cloth to make the ribbon dresses until the europeans came to this continent. I know my nation had buckskins, but they were practical, not for the contest dancing like today's.
Yet today, as I said I have both types of outfits. If there is a cloth category I get in that one, but when they lump us all in one category as southern, I pull out the buckskin....well, cause usually the buckskins take all the places when we all lumped into one category. Simple as that.
Like I said money contests have changed alot of our powwows.
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