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Capitol’s player Timothy “TJ” Oshie celebrates winning the Stanley cup, a historic win for the Capitols after more than two decades of waiting. “Throughout the whole year, not a lot was expected out of us,” T.J. Oshie told The Washington Post. “Maybe on paper we weren’t as elite as teams….

Patricia Cesspooch has dreamed of starting her own whitewater rafting company for most of her life. With a love for her ancestral land, she has longed to make a living on the Colorado River, and at the age of 54, she has now launched her own company. Click the link….

In a time when designers ofter appropriate Native culture, Vogue Magazine chooses to instead Highlight Native Designers and showcase their adaptation of traditional wear with modern style. Check out the link below to read the entire Vogue article. Be sure to share, let’s use every opportunity to lift each other….

Nakai Brock is only in 8th grade, but this Maya/Apache young woman is already a change maker within her community. Partnered with the City of Mountain View in CA, this young student is working on solutions for members of her community who are dealing with being homeless due to increasing….

Lorenzo and Bertha Tom have been coming to Gathering of Nations as a vendor for about 15 years. The Toms specialize in Gourd rattles used in the ceremony for the Native American Church. Lorenzo grew up watching his Grandfather craft the gourd rattles, and from a very young age, he….

If there’s one thing that makes me feel right at home at powwows, its when I see sleeping kids under the table of a vendor. I remember taking my naps as a kid under my mom’s art table when she would showcase her artwork to sell, so when I came….

The decolonization of our diets has become increasingly important within our indigenous communities. With issues such as Diabetes and obesity a growing concern in our communities, we have begun to look more incredulously at our foods, and how eating the diets of the Colonizers was yet another battlefield that threatened….

2018 marked the 7th Annual Bay Area American Indian Two Spirit Powwow, now the largest Two-Spirit powwow in North America. The BAAITS powwow has been growing every year, and for the past two years has found it’s home at the Fort Mason Festival Pavilion in San Francisco California. The theme….

June 23rd, 2017 marked the 5th consecutive year that the World Champion San Francisco Giants have hosted a Native American Heritage Night. Luke Lightning, Manny Lieras, Mary Trimble Norris and Calvin Hedrick along side the Giants’ Special Events Team organized and put together the evening which included drum and song,….

Jeremiah Copi is a drummer and singer with Blue Medicine Wheel singers from Gallup NM. He is from the Navajo Nation and began drumming when he was 7 years old. Copi’s grandfather taught him how to drum and sing, and the very first songs he learned were family songs. From….

Krystyn Shields is from Moab Utah and came here to the Gathering of Nations with her club. Shields is 16 years old and Navajo/Sioux. She dances Northern Traditional Buckskin, and this is her very first year dancing in powwows! Her grandmother made her Buckskin dress, and her Aunt Carrie Keith….

Eric Bearspaw has been coming to Gathering of Nations for 4 years from Alberta Canada. Eric is Nakota, Stoney, and said he would have been coming to Gathering a lot sooner in his life, but he was worried about the exchange rate between countries and whether or not the trip….