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Annual Shoshone-Bannock Indian Festival/Pow-wow
Fort Hall, Idaho * August 11 - 14, 2005

Host Drums:
Northern Cree - Saddle Lake, Alberta CA
Sizzortail - Shawnee, OK

MCs:
Robert "Corky" Old Horn - Crow Agency, MT
Edmund Nevaquaya - Apache, OK

Arena Directors:
Noah Fred - Ft. Hall, ID
George "Cricket" Shields - Shawnee, OK

Head Drum Judges:
Northern - Lennis Denny - Ft. Hall, ID
Southern - Everett Moore - Jones, OK

Head Women's Back-up Judges:
Drusilla Gould - Ft. Hall, ID
Jesse Stump - Ft. Hall, ID

Sound System provided by Jerry Bear

Grand Entries:
Fri. @ 7 PM, Sat. @ 1 & 7 PM & Sun. 1 & 7 PM

Registration:
Opens: Fri. @ 3 PM & Sat. 11 AM
Closes: Sat. @ 7 PM (Final registration)

Singing Contest:
Northern & Southern (separate categories)
$5000, 4000, 3000, 2000, 1000 & 3 - consolation
Drum roll call 15 minutes prior to each g/entry
Bring your own chairs - sound system provided

Dance Contest:
Adult - $1000, 700, 500 & 300
Mens: Fancy (Northern & Southern), Grass, Trad., & S. Straight
Womens: Fancy, Jingle, N. Trad. (buckskin & cloth combined), S. Trad. (buckskin & cloth combined)

Golden Age (50+)
$1000, 700, 500 & 300
Mens: Northern (combined categories) & Southern (combined categories)
Womens: Norrthern (combined categories) & Southern (combined categories)

Teens (13 - 17)
$350, 250, 150 & 100
Boys: Fancy, Trad. & Grass
Girls: Fancy, Trad. & Jingle

Juniors (6 - 12)
$150, 100, 75 & 50
Boys: Fancy, Trad. & Grass
Girls: Fancy, Trad. & Jingle

SPECIALS:
Men's Buckskin (warbonnet) special (18+) - 3 places

Men's Round Bustle/Chicken dance Special (18+) - 3 places

Women's Back-up Special (4 singers)
Northern & Southern (separate categories)
3 places + jackets for 1st place winners

Women's jingle dance special - sponsored by Felicia Eldridge, Miss Shoshone-Bannock - winner take all
special scheduled for 3:00 PM on Friday, 8/12/05

3 generation women's trad. shell dress contes - sponsored by Nummie Osborne in honor of her mother, Norma Osborne

Little Girls Dance Special - sponsored by Alisha Miller, outgoing Tzi Tzi Festival Princess - friday @ 1:30 PM

Papse Family Memorial Honoring - Senior Couples Dance Contest (50+)

Steve Sonnip - Mens Grass Dance Special (18+)

Wayne Crue - Mens Grass Dance Special (18+)

Evening Family Memorial - Feast & Flag presentation

Camille N. George Honoring Special - Men's & Women's Trad./Fancy/Grass/Jingle (18+)

Teen Girls - Jingle/Fancy/Trad. Special - winner take all in each category sponsored by Sara Reede, outgoing festival princess

Senior (55+) Men's Round Bustle Special - sponsored by Duke Dixey family - 3 places

Junior Girls Fancy Special - honoring Natasha Watson

Andre Murillo Memorial & Give Away - Thursday Evening

OTHER EVENTS:
Thursday, Aug. 11 - Children's parade and Children's day & honoring veterans pow-wow

Gourd Dancing - Commanche Little Pony Gourd Dance
Fri. @ 5 PM, Sat. @ 5 PM & Sun. @ 11 AM & 5 PM

Shoshonean Reunion - August 10 - 11, 2005
For more information call: Gary Watson @ (208) 241-6527 or Darrell Shay @ (208) 478-3936

POW-WOW AND OTHER ACTIVITY CONTACTS:
Area Code: 208
Festival Coordinator, Delbert Farmer
478-3726 or dfarmer@shoshonebannocktribes.com

Pow-wow coordinators:
Roanna Stump, 238-0373 or 406-2322
Drusilla Gould, 238-3637 or 406-8014

Arts & Crafts Booths & Concession/Food Stands:
Delbert Farmer, 478-3726
Audrey Jim, 237-8778, Ext. 3004

Art Show:
Delbert Farmer, 478-3726

Handgame Tournment:
Tazzy Peyope, 238-8821

All Indian Rodeo:
Louise & Duke Dixey, 785-6256

Jr./Sr. Rodeo:
Krissy Broncho-Fox, 637-8032/237-5631

Indian Relay:
LaGrande Coby, 221-2957 or 478-3700

Women's Softball Tournment:
Sharon or Demonte Johnson, 238-1968/237-1174, Ext.14

Ft. Hall All Indian Softball Tournaments:
Co-ed, mens and womens
Ft. Hall Recreation, 478-3770 (Mike, Eddy or Tula)

All Indian Parade:
Lenora Snipe, 478-3849

Grizzly

HOKA! This is gonna be a good one. With Northern Cree as the Host Northern Drum... You can't go wrong! This trip is gonna be well worth it!

kneegrow_native

Wow, looks like this will be one badarse pow-wow. I saw the video of it last year and there were some wicked drums there, this year, there will be even more.

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