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Hey Ms. Nezzy....
On the first issue - people who haven't been brought in the right way.... I agree with you. BUT, it's also sometimes hard to figure out who's paid their way in and who just started..... and it might be kinda awkward asking "Hey, our commmittee wants you to be on headstaff, but are you legit?" I can't imagine there's really any way to police that.... Ideally though, the head dancers are folks who embody all those old school ideas, cause like you said, people look to them as an example....
On the second issue - family as head staff.... I think it really depends on the dance. For a big contest dance, I say no way - heck, i don't even think family of the committee should dance, much less contest, cause there's just too much to take care of.... kids can be put to work as waterboys (as if we'll ever see one of those in NM! haha!), counting raffle tickets, or just running errands for the committee and AD...
BUT, for smaller social dances, i think it's not a big huge deal. Unless somebody's doing it all the time, and then it seems like they're just greedy - trying to get all kinda giveaway stuff - or cheap - like they don't wanna pay another head dancer. But again, for a small non-contest dance or a family dance - it's probably not a big deal. Of course someone's always gonna complain, so you could bring in the big name powwow superstars, and someone would complain that you didn't get this or that other person or that you spent too much money or you didn't pick Str8dancer49 for your head dancer! hahaha.....
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