Women’s Traditional Dancers – 2017 Denver March Pow Wow

Women’s Traditional Dancers – 2017 Denver March Pow Wow

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Denver March Pow Wow kicks off the Pow Wow season each year.  The event attracts dancers, singers, and spectators from across North America. Every dance category is stacked with champion dancers.  Many dancers come to Denver with new outfits, ready to compete! Take a look at some of the beautiful….

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Pow Wow Princesses at Denver March Pow Wow

Pow Wow Princesses at Denver March Pow Wow

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Denver March Pow Wow kicks off the Pow Wow season each year.  The event attracts dancers, singers, and spectators from across North America. Dozens of Pow Wow Princesses show up to Denver March to start the new season representing their various titles. Take a look at some of these young….

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How to Use the Dawes Rolls to Trace Your Indian Ancestry – Native American Pow Wows

How to Use the Dawes Rolls to Trace Your Indian Ancestry – Native American Pow Wows

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As you’ve likely figured out by now, tracing your Indian heritage requires a lot of work. You may end up having to do a lot more work than you had initially anticipated. When tracing your Native American genealogy, there are a lot of resources available to you that you may….

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Native American Pow Wow Lesson Plan

Native American Pow Wow Lesson Plan

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Every weekend somewhere in North American, Native Americans are gathering for a Pow Wow. It’s not very often that students get a chance to see Native American culture up close and personal. Yes, we have the history books and the museums – yet rarely do we get an opportunity to learn and….

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Top 5 Tools for Tracing Your Family History

Top 5 Tools for Tracing Your Family History

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After you’ve gotten started tracing your family heritage, you may find yourself at a standstill. Information from family members can only get you so far; we can’t depend on everyone in our lives to be excellent record-keepers of the past. At some point in your genealogy research, you’ll likely have….

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What You Should Know About DNA Testing for Family History Research

What You Should Know About DNA Testing for Family History Research

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There are many potential steps involved in researching your genealogy, especially if you’re starting from scratch. Before you do anything else, it’s of course, best to start with your living family members – gather information from your oral history, and search through their old records and photographs. You may be….

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Pow Wow Traveler’s Guide to Mall of America

Pow Wow Traveler’s Guide to Mall of America

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Going to a Mall as a destination has not been part of my travel plans since I was a teen in the 80s.  Without a pocket full of quarters ready for the arcade, I wasn’t sure how I would spend my days.  On top of that a trip to a….

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Meadow Glen Middle Students Explore Clean Water

Meadow Glen Middle Students Explore Clean Water

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My daughter is a student at Meadow Glen Middle School in Lexington, SC.  This past week the 7th grade students presented their Expedition projects. Each school year the grades work on an Expedition Learning project.  These projects take on topics that are carried over into each class.  The 7th grade….

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How Find Your Native American Ancestry

How Find Your Native American Ancestry

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Where Do I Come From? Trace Your Native American Ancestors So many of us seek the answer to that question. We turn to ancestry and genealogy websites to try and trace our history or perform a Google search of surnames to attempt to find out more about our heritage. It….

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The Food of Mall of America

The Food of Mall of America

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I was invited to spend 4 days at the Mall of America as part of their MinNoCoata program.  The Mall is trying to show that you can come to Minnesota and enjoy their stores and attractions in the middle of winter.  AND I did it with no coat! Part of….

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Watch Northern Cree at the 2017 Grammy Awards

Watch Northern Cree at the 2017 Grammy Awards

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In case you missed it, Northern Cree was invited to perform at the GRAMMY Awards Premiere Ceremony, which took place at Microsoft Theater on Sunday, Feb. 12 from 12:30–3:30 p.m. While they did not take home a GRAMMY for Best Regional Roots Music Album, they put on one heck of….

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On The Road – Mall of America

On The Road – Mall of America

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The Mall of American is Bloomington, Minnesota has invited me to spend the weekend enjoying the shopping, attractions, and restaurants in the largest mall in the United States.  This weekend they invited a few other bloggers and myself to take part in their MinNoCoata program. No, MinNoCoata isn’t the Indian….

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