2026 Meskwaki 'Honoring Our Graduates' Powwow

Added: 2026-06-02

[00:00:00]It's not mentioned on It is now 12:53. Singers and dancers, we got our host drum out there.

[00:01:17]Dancers, please be ready. It is 12:54.

[00:01:24]I have not been told otherwise, but 1:00 grand entry. So, please make a way up to the grand entry area.

[00:01:36]Dancers, host drum is here.

[00:01:44]Second weekend in August, we have our annual powow. To those who do not know, every year, second weekend in August, we celebrate the harvest. We celebrate life with our own songs, our own dances. So, come on over at that time. It's a unique experience to all of our visitors. We have our own dances, our own songs. It's a beautiful time of the year. So, I invite you, please come on over and visit us.

[00:02:20]Msquakei settlement.

[00:02:23]Second week in August, our annual pow-wow.

[00:03:52]All right, all of our friends and family, we are now live on the internet. We don't know exactly if it's on right now exactly, but it was told it's going to be >> Oh, nice. All right.

[00:04:22]Joe's. Yep. South side of that arena.

[00:04:24]Joe brought me up a Indian taco. Thank you, Joe. Joe hooked it up. Thank you.

[00:04:31]She makes really good fried bread, too, man. There's a lot of good fried bread makers here. So, thank you, Joe, for hooking me up with Indian Taco. Make sure to check her out. Shout out to Joe and crew OSO as they say.

[00:04:48]We are now live. A little bit nervous, but hey, what can I do? I can just do my goodest up here on the mic helping out.

[00:04:59]2026 graduation pow here on the Msquakei summit. Welcome to all of our visitors in person and online over the internet, the worldwide web.

[00:05:13]Those of visitors, give us a shout out.

[00:05:16]I don't know if they're able to comment.

[00:05:17]Yeah, it should be on YouTube, right? Or something like that. Or msquakei.com.

[00:05:21]There should be a link. msquakei.org.

[00:05:24]Actually, msquakei.org.

[00:05:28]Anywh who, yeah, shout out to all of our internet visitors.

[00:05:38]It is now 12:58. We asked all of our dancers to come on up.

[00:05:44]All of our graduates, please take part in your celebration grand entry as we honor you for your accomplishment of graduating.

[00:05:56]Good job to all of our high school graduates, our college graduates, and our vocational school graduates. You got your certificate.

[00:06:05]More power to you to succeed in this world we live in.

[00:06:14]The world we live in. We got to earn income to take care of ourselves.

[00:06:19]Do what you got to do to do the things you ha you want to do.

[00:06:24]Do the things you have to do to do the things you want to do.

[00:06:40]It's no small task to graduate to what you guys did. So, be proud of yourself.

[00:06:44]I hope you're proud of yourself. All of you high school graduates, all of our college graduates, all of our vocational school graduates. It's no small deed that what you have accomplished. So, be proud of yourself. It's the way to be proud of yourself. And I hope your families are proud of proud of you. I am. You know, I'm proud of our young people and our older people. You know, there's some that got their vocational school, you know, at an older age or their GED.

[00:07:12]Just just don't give up.

[00:07:15]If you haven't gotten any of those yet, don't give up. There's still time for you. You are alive and well.

[00:07:21]Get out and get that education and come back and help your people.

[00:07:26]I'm glad to work for the Msquakei tribe at the casino.

[00:07:30]They paid for my education and it's my way of giving back by being director of purchasing at the casino. I do my goodest over there, but I'm very thankful. I had that job director position. There's not very many of us and there but there's more coming up through the lines. I worked at the good casino. I was a I clean slot machines.

[00:07:48]That's where I started. I started from the you know that I was cleaning with slot machines.

[00:07:54]Then I went to school, went to night school.

[00:07:59]I worked graveyard cleaning slot machines when they had there was coinbased back then. So there was a lot of coin dust and they cleaned them up on the inside.

[00:08:11]I went to school at night where I worked at night. Went to school during the day.

[00:08:18]Finished MCC then Buenov Vista. Worked as a buyer laborer. I worked a labor with public work. Not public works with the housing. I was a laborer, a gopher, and I worked my way up all up to a director position, which I'm very happy for myself. I got put the work in. Now I'm a director at the casino.

[00:08:44]But it needed help for my family though.

[00:08:46]My wife, my kids, you know, my wife, you know, she took care of the kids when to school. She took care of the kids when I was working. So, I'm thankful for my wife, thank you to my parents, my mom.

[00:08:57]She encouraged me. She encouraged me to continue my education. She encouraged me to take my buyer job. It was the first job I ever had as a in an office. I was I was a laborer and I was yeah, I didn't want to take the job, but she encouraged me, her and my auntie Kelly, she encouraged they encouraged me to take that director job or that buyer job in the office. So, I listened to them and I I toughed it out.

[00:09:23]I was a buyer there for like eight years at the casino with Allen. I worked with Alan [ __ ] He was the director. Then then I worked at the youth program after that. Msquack youth program. Shout out to the Msquack Youth Program.

[00:09:47]Worked over there.

[00:09:50]That was one of my favorite jobs. I'm very proud of that accomplishment. Made the playgrounds with help. Help had my part in the playground. Had my part in the outdoor basketball court. Very proud of those projects.

[00:10:11]But my point is I started from the bottom. You know, I started from a cleaning job.

[00:10:18]So, I encourage all of our young people, put in the work. Put in the work.

[00:10:27]This is the start the rest of your life.

[00:10:29]When you graduate from high school, start the rest of your life.

[00:10:34]You made it this far. Keep going. Keep going. You got it.

[00:10:49]It is now 103. Soon as I get the high sign from the arena director, [ __ ] hunters are ready to go. Our veterans are ready to go. It's up to our arena director Jared to give up meet the high sign and we'll go ahead with our first grand entry, the 2026 graduation pow here in Msquakei settlement.

[00:11:17]Thank you all of our visitors, all of our locals, all of our family and friends. Thank you for being here. We are here to celebrate. We're here to dance and sing, enjoy each other's company in this beautiful weather. We're going to eat later.

[00:11:33]It's going to be a good time.

[00:11:43]If you haven't already, we have a schedule of events here and this free booklets. Come on up to the speaker stand and get your free booklet. It has all the information you need for today's celebration.

[00:12:09]All right.

[00:12:33]>> We got They brought up a pork chop on a stick for me. Shout out to Rhonda and crew.

[00:12:40]Dolan and crew.

[00:12:43]It looks delicious. They got smoothies.

[00:12:45]They got lemonade.

[00:12:47]Rhonda and crew. Dolan and crew. Shout out. Thank you for this. I'm going to be full. Got my taco. Got my porch up on a stick. I have to recruit Harland to help me out.

[00:13:00]Help me eat this food up. They got smoothies. They got lemonade. I got a pink lemonade here. Pork chop on a stick.

[00:13:10]Looks good.

[00:13:12]Shout out to Ronda and Dolan.

[00:13:17]Check them out.

[00:15:14]dancers, make your way to the grand entry area. All of our dancers, please make your way out to the grand entry area. You know where that is. I believe it's to the left at the speaker stand.

[00:15:27]Waiting for the high sign from Arena Director Jared Pachiniqua.

[00:15:31]for our first grand entry of our 2026 celebration.

[00:15:40]We need some a young person to help out with our mics. A young man, young man, please come over and over and help us out. Be a a mic man. We got a a boom here with a mic on it. You need to be strong. You need to be dependable. Come on over. Help us out. We need a mic man.

[00:16:01]A Mike Young man.

[00:16:30]I don't see the Shaunie dance listed, but I'm going to have to make a special request for this evening for the Shaunie dance if the [ __ ] hunters are willing to do so. It's not listed, but I know that's a dancer favorite.

[00:17:14]We need a mic man. Help us out. Come see Jared. We need a mic runner for our dancer. No, I'm sorry. For our drums.

[00:17:22]Come see Jared. He help us out.

[00:17:48]seen a lot of um a few Kansas people, few Wisconsin people. Welcome.

[00:17:54]I believe Maya is Maya Power is going to be happening here soon in a couple weeks. Maya is always a good one. I used to help out over there. They used to they asked me to help with um judging.

[00:18:06]They did ask me to MC down there once and very thankful for that. So that that PA is pretty cool, man. It's a good one.

[00:18:14]Little warm, but it's summer time. Got to get used to it. Get used to that humidity, the heat.

[00:18:20]May power couple weeks down there.

[00:18:23]Lawrence, Kansas area. Maya, I'm sorry.

[00:18:25]Maya, Kansas area. Home of the prairie band padawatami people.

[00:18:38]>> We'll probably go check it out. Me and my family head down there and enjoy ourselves.

[00:18:44]They got a nice casino over there. Nice hotel. They just did some recent renovations just like us. So go check it out. Prairie band pow.

[00:18:57]I think Hankley, too. We're going to test out Hankley. Grand Casino Hankley.

[00:19:01]Henley, Minnesota.

[00:19:03]That's in like three or four weeks.

[00:19:08]Larry, you want to help us out with the warm-up song?

[00:19:13]Get the mood going if you would please.

[00:19:15]I have a like four push-ups. Help us out. And after that we'll do a grand entry.

[00:19:50]Hey, hey, hey.

[00:20:05]We are glory.

[00:20:34]Hey hey.

[00:21:04]Hey, hey, hey.

[00:21:31]are hey way up.

[00:22:05]All right. Thank you. I should have and crew for that warm-up song.

[00:22:11]The mic is nice and loud now. I don't have to talk so loud on my own.

[00:22:19][ __ ] hunters, drum number one, our host for the today's festivities. Thank you for being here on time.

[00:22:26]Black Lodge, the Eagle Feather, Msquakei, thank you for being here.

[00:22:36]Yep. Go heat up mesh. If your drum is flat, go heat them up. There's a fire back there.

[00:22:45]Yeah. A reminder to bring your own chairs. Singers, you need to bring your own chairs.

[00:22:56]We're about ready to kick it off. All of our singers and are here. We're calling upon all of our dancers that you had your warm-up song. We are ready to go.

[00:23:08]The veterans are lining up.

[00:23:14]Lead us around.

[00:23:17]Head dancers, are you here? Gekki, I I believe I seen Gekcki up here. Dia, are you here?

[00:23:26]Dia and Gekki are ready. Our head dancers for today are being honored.

[00:23:32]High school graduates from MSS and South Tama.

[00:23:40]>> Wait, >> no, they're both from MSS. My bad.

[00:23:45]>> Both graduates of MSS. Gekki and Dia.

[00:23:58]All right, we'll have the cooners take care of our grand entry here.

[00:24:16]>> So they can do flag or Okay.

[00:24:23]>> Black Lodge flag song.

[00:24:27]>> Eagle feather veteran song >> and inner tribals. I believe we're going to start.

[00:24:46]>> Yeah.

[00:25:06]Grand entry is basically a parade in of all of our dancers. Those who you who do not know, do we have any first timers at POW here? Raise your hand. It's your first time at a powo. Let me see your hands. No, we got no first timers here.

[00:25:26]That's okay. That's cool, though. That means you've been to one before.

[00:25:31]We're here to celebrate. Pawas are a gathering of native people, non-native to celebrate life, to dance, and to sing, to be thankful. And this specific pawa, we're here to celebrate all of our graduates of high school, college, and vocational schools, sponsored by the higher education program, by the tribe.

[00:25:53]We're here to say good job. We're here to say keep going. We're here to say we are proud of you and we encourage you to keep going. Keep doing good. You've made it this far.

[00:26:09]We're going to keep an eye on you and see how far you go. Take care of yourself. Take care of others.

[00:26:17]In this new part of your life, more responsibilities are going to be bestowed upon you.

[00:26:24]You got to be responsible for yourself even more.

[00:26:29]And you done done good up to this point.

[00:26:32]So, keep going.

[00:26:38]We are live on the internet, live online.

[00:26:46]Shout out again to Msquakei Media for making that possible.

[00:26:50]If you haven't already, come get a schedule of events. They're still available here at the speaker stand.

[00:26:57]There's a box of them here and they are free. First come, first serve. Come grab a booklet. They got bios in there, biographies of all of our graduates, high school graduates. They got a schedule of events. They got names of the sponsors.

[00:27:14]Give a shout out to our sponsors here.

[00:27:17]Msquakei Higher Education Program, A9 Chinese Restaurant, Toledo, Iowa. A9 Harbach Lumber Company, Toledo, Iowa.

[00:27:30]Msquakei Bingo Casino Hotel, OK Tires, Pinnacle Bank, and special recognition, Kayla Wanity, graduate of IAIA, for donating designs and artwork. Thank you.

[00:28:45]for location.

[00:28:48]Larry's the only one I can see. There's right there.

[00:29:18]All right, dancers, make your way to your grand entry. It is now time for grand entry.

[00:29:25]Soon as I get the high sign from arena director Jared Push, we will get her going for the first grand entry of this year's graduation pow 2026 grads.

[00:29:46]>> All right, dancers line up. Gekki and Dia are ready.

[00:29:52]You know the routine. All traditional dancers first grass fancy traditional jingle fancy in that order. Then all of our young people, all of our juniors, come follow us in. Follow them in.

[00:30:11]Follow the leader.

[00:30:18]>> All right. I shouldn't be. [ __ ] hunters, we are ready for grand entry. Please rise if you are able to honor our veterans and our flags. If you are able, please rise as we bring in our veterans.

[00:30:54]Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

[00:31:18]bringing in our flags. We got Robert Post Morgan.

[00:31:25]Right behind our warriors, we have our Powow princesses.

[00:31:31]Beautiful ladies. Beautiful. Right behind our royalty, we have the headman and head lady for this year's celebration, Gekki and Dia.

[00:31:43]Hook got here.

[00:32:00]>> Right behind our royalty and our head dancers, we have our men's woodland style dancers. Welcome dancers.

[00:32:11]Right behind our woodland, we have all of our junior boy dancers, followed by our beautiful women dancers.

[00:32:23]All of our beautiful traditional women dancers.

[00:32:57]Behind all of our applique traditional dancers, we have our jingle dress dancers.

[00:33:19]Welcome to all of our visitors. Thank you for being here.

[00:33:24]Thank you for sharing your dance with us, your energy.

[00:33:36]are hallelujah.

[00:34:03]Hallelujah.

[00:34:20]Hallelujah.

[00:34:29]Hey, hey, hey.

[00:35:05]All right. Thank you, Goon Hunters, for the grand entry song.

[00:35:11]At this time, we'd like to call upon Gilbert Brown to speak to the creator on our behalf before we move any forward in today's celebration. So, if you would please give Gilbert your attention. Oh.

[00:35:49]You want to know as many Yes.

[00:36:21]for me.

[00:37:02]can I said more.

[00:37:37]>> Oh, thank you, Gilbert.

[00:37:39]At this time, we want to do a veterans flag song. All right, flag song.

[00:37:46]Black Lodge. Whenever you're ready, please give us the flag song.

[00:38:04]High way higher.

[00:38:29]Where are we?

[00:38:32]Where are we? High.

[00:38:52]Yeah. Yeah.

[00:38:55]I will high I Way higher God high are way high.

[00:39:51]High are high.

[00:39:57]Way high.

[00:40:22]High way higher higher way higher higher I am way higher.

[00:40:56]Thank you, Black Clouds, for the appropriate song. We now call upon Eagle Feather for our veteran song, Victory Song. Whenever you're ready, boys, take it away.

[00:41:18]Where can our girl name?

[00:41:46]Never.

[00:42:14]Aquaven.

[00:42:43]Our God our name.

[00:43:11]Let our name >> Oh, thank you, Eagle Feather. At this time, we'd like to acknowledge our warriors, our veterans carrying the US flag, Craig Chase and Winter, 100 First Airborne.

[00:43:48]Carrying our Msquakei flag, Alan Papakei, United States Marine Corps.

[00:44:02]carrying the American Legion flag. Craig Young Bear, United States Marine Corps.

[00:44:14]Carrying our P MIA flag, Aaron Walker, United States Marine Corps.

[00:44:26]We'd like to acknowledge our escorts.

[00:44:28]Jane Kiana, Navy.

[00:44:36]Dennis Young Bear, Army.

[00:44:42]>> Daniel Wabanosy, United States Marine Corps.

[00:44:49]>> Bronson Young Bear, Marine Cadet.

[00:44:55]Good job, young man.

[00:44:58]Now, it's time to introduce our POW princesses, our royalty.

[00:45:05]Dorothy Bear, Veterans Pow Princess.

[00:45:07]Give us a wave. Yay! Beautiful. She's knows what she's doing. You see that?

[00:45:13]Wave, Ellison White, annual Pow Princess. Thank you, Ellison. Wave to the crowd. Beautiful. Well done.

[00:45:24]All right, at this time we want to acknowledge our head dancers for today.

[00:45:28]Msquakei settlement school graduate get bear, come on over.

[00:45:37]All right. All right. You're going to have two push-ups. Oh, cool. That's dope.

[00:45:43]Our head lady dancer for today, Dia Lassley, MSS graduate.

[00:45:54]Beautiful. Nice little wave there. We're going to have what?

[00:46:00]>> Msquakei, if you would please. Two push-ups for our head dancers. Let them They're going to show you their style.

[00:46:07]It's time to celebrate our head dancers.

[00:46:09]Msquakei, whenever you're ready, take it away. Here, here, here, here.

[00:46:36]Fire.

[00:46:57]Hallelujah.

[00:47:00]Let's walk.

[00:47:55]All right, round of applause for our Head dancers. Good job. Thank you for representing your school, your family.

[00:48:03]Looking good out there. We're going to move on down to the host drum for our first inner tribal of this afternoon.

[00:48:12][ __ ] hunters, whenever you're ready, it's inner tribal time. We invite all of our spectators. Thank you for standing.

[00:48:19]Thank you for honoring our veterans, our warriors.

[00:48:22]Come and stretch your legs. Come get your steps in. [ __ ] Hunters, it's time for intertribal dancing. We'll make our way down the line. Black Lodge, you're on deck.

[00:48:55]God, come Glory.

[00:49:50]Hey, God.

[00:50:11]Yay.

[00:50:37]Hallelujah.

[00:50:59]Glory.

[00:51:17]Hey hey glory.

[00:52:08]All right. Thank you, [ __ ] hunters. Oh, they got me.

[00:52:13]All right. Sorry for trying to cut you off.

[00:52:28]You guys tricked me as usual.

[00:52:32]Black Lodge, it's good to see you. Thank you for being here. Msquakei country.

[00:52:41]That's a family drum. They originated from White Swan, Washington. They've been singing a long time. So, it's very good to see them here, Scabro family and friends. So, at this time, Black Lodge, whenever you're ready, inner tribal time. Daniel Young Bear, please come on up. Daniel Young Bear.

[00:53:19]I get so So I came my way.

[00:54:03]Hallelujah.

[00:54:18]Where I my way. I sto my way.

[00:55:02]And then I start again.

[00:55:07]So we are I got my way.

[00:55:56]I got my Hey, thank you Black Lodge making us like it out there. Inner tribal time. We move on down the line to none other than Eagle Feather. Eagle Feather, it's your time to shine. Take it away.

[00:56:44]Where are you?

[00:57:13]are way.

[00:57:54]way.

[00:57:56]way.

[00:58:03]way.

[00:58:19]Hallelujah.

[00:58:29]I love Hey, way.

[00:59:21]Hey, I All right. Thank you, Eagle Feather, for your inner tribal psalm. We move on down to line to Msquakei Singers, one of our local drones, one of our people.

[01:00:22]Msquakei singers, whenever you're ready.

[01:00:25]Interribal time.

[01:00:54]Way Yal.

[01:02:08]Way God Way way.

[01:03:14]Way Down.

[01:04:13]All right, Msquakei singers, thank you for that song. We move on down the drum list to Msquakei Nation all the way from Pa Iowa Nation.

[01:04:27]Inner tribal time.

[01:04:50]Way higher.

[01:05:28]Never Can't say never give Never I got I Never All right. Thank you, Miss Guaki Nation, for that appropriate song. We ask the dancers to please clear the arena. We move on through our schedule of events through our special dances done only here on the Msquakei settlement.

[01:07:43]It's not a reservation. Those of you who do not know, we do not live on a reservation. We own this land free and clear. We bought it back. It was stolen, but we bought it back. Did what we had to do.

[01:08:01]Dancers, we have registration for the sweetheart dance here at the speaker stand. Come on up. Sign up your team.

[01:08:11]Also singers, we have the hand drum contest. Sign up right up here also. So come on up. Hand drummers and sweetheart dancers.

[01:08:32]our arena director is in charge of getting the sets of dancers. So Jared has the responsibility of choosing the dancers and that's our goal to keep this dance going. We want to teach our young people.

[01:08:51]These guys right here, they know what they're doing. So, we're going to get some young people, younger people out there next. So, young people, there's a certain way to do the pipe dance. So, keep an eye out.

[01:09:07]Do as they do.

[01:09:13]This is the old way of doing it is what I've been told. And we're going to ask our host, the [ __ ] hunters, to sing the appropriate song. This is the old way of doing our pipe dance.

[01:09:31]>> Oh, okay.

[01:09:36]Long ago, in the beginning when we had this celebration to raise funds for our tribe to do what we had to do, they put on a show and it was a show and they did the four directions and that's not the original style. That was just for the show. We put on a show for the crowd, the non-natives, but this is the original. This is how you're supposed to do it in the beginning. So at this time, [ __ ] hunters, whenever you're ready, our dancers are ready.

[01:10:10]Take it away.

[01:10:38]Hey, hey, hey.

[01:11:04]God.

[01:11:22]Hey, hey, hey.

[01:11:25]Hey, your way.

[01:11:50]Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.

[01:12:23]Hey, they got it. They got the stuff.

[01:12:26]That's how it's done. Thank you, singers. Thank you, dancers. Daniel and Romo. Romo. Yeah.

[01:12:35]Romo. No.

[01:12:38]>> Romeo. I I added a I missed a letter.

[01:12:41]It's Romeo.

[01:12:44]>> All right, Jared, we got another set out there somewhere.

[01:12:53]>> Center or eagle feather?

[01:12:58]>> Eagle feather. Are you ready with this song? Pipe dance song.

[01:13:04]We're gonna get another set.

[01:13:07]Dylan. Dylan, come help us out. Dylan and Dylan and Gekki are going to get the job done here. Like I mentioned earlier, this is the original style. They make sure the pipe is pointed toward the creator to offer prayers. We don't point it to the ground. And they face each other. It's not four directions.

[01:13:31]And they hit the stops.

[01:13:37]As I mentioned over earlier, this is the Msquakei pipe dance.

[01:13:43]Unique to our people.

[01:13:46]All right, Eagle Feather. The dancers are ready. Pipe dance song.

[01:14:00]We are all naked. We are naked. We are naked. We are naked. We are naked. We are naked again. We are naked. Where are again?

[01:14:21]>> Where are again?

[01:14:24]>> Where are we hold again? We are done again. We are done again. We are done again. We are done again. We are all done again. We are all done again. We are done again.

[01:14:44]We are naked. We are naked. We are naked. We are naked. We are naked again. We are naked. We are naked. We are naked. We are naked. We are naked. We are naked. We are naked.

[01:15:15]again.

[01:15:19]Again, >> All right, put your hands together for our pipe dancers. Putting it out there for you guys to enjoy. Thank you spectators for your encouragement.

[01:15:45]Mel Davenport, if you are in the area, please come to the speaker stand.

[01:15:49]Melanie Davenport. I also want to get a quick shout out to Daryl Hill Jr. He's going around selling 50/50 fundraiser tickets. He is the headband. He has been asked and honored to be the headman dancer at the 2026 Salamanca Powow out in New York. So, good job, Daryl Jr.

[01:16:12]here. Help him out. Buy a ticket. He's going to travel out east and represent.

[01:16:18]Also, MAPA will be having a 50/50 later on. They want to start a social night here on the Msquakei dance and area for our traditional dancers so everyone can practice and so when the annual comes along, we are on it. So, we want to teach our young people. So a 50/50 for both Daryl Hill and Mappa will be coming around.

[01:16:45]>> Mel Davenport, where are you? Melody Davenport.

[01:16:50]Jana, you all right? Looks like we're going to have some uh couple of fancy dancers out here. Some young people come out. All right, I hope you're watching cuz now all eyes are on you.

[01:17:11]Very rare to have fancy dancers out there. Good to see.

[01:17:20]Looking good.

[01:17:22]All right, get some last minute instructions from arena director and call upon msquakei singers to do the third set of pipe dancers.

[01:17:37]I always enjoy these songs. I always enjoy dancing to this dance.

[01:17:45]>> Here we go.

[01:17:52]John.

[01:18:21]Wait for >> work on our Wait for Wait for >> All right, put your hands together for our young people. They need your encouragement. They did good. That's their first time out there. It looks like that little guy, he got out there and that's a good start getting out there in front of all you people.

[01:19:54]All eyes on him, but he still went out there. No fear. Good job, little man.

[01:20:00]We got one more set here. One more set of dancers.

[01:20:05]Couple of professionals. They know what they're doing.

[01:20:09]They got a tough act to follow, though.

[01:20:19][ __ ] Hunters, if you would have this song ready.

[01:20:25]Unless we're going to Well, you got this one. You guys are good. All right, Msquaki Nation.

[01:20:31]Space these guys out. My own brothers.

[01:20:35]Msquakei Nation. Final set of pipe dancers. Whenever you're ready.

[01:20:48]God.

[01:20:55]Great.

[01:20:56]We are on the way. We are great.

[01:21:03]We are going away.

[01:21:30]Make the wait.

[01:21:57]They wait for God for >> Hey, what you think? What do you think?

[01:22:27]They got the stops. Good one, boys.

[01:22:32]>> Map up Princess Ellison White, if you would please make your way over to the speaker stand. Also, we want to give a shout out to the TNF girls basketball team. They're going to go around with a raffle to raise funds to compete in Mesa, Arizona. $10 a ticket or $20 for three. So, make sure you help them out.

[01:22:54]They're going to go represent in D country down in Arizona.

[01:23:01]Also, we have MA. They're going to have a 50/50 soon. And keep an eye out for Daryl Hell Jr. He's going to be having he has a 50/50. Also, he's going to be headman at 2026 Salamanca, New York. All right, we move on down the schedule. It is time for the Swan Dance. Swan dancers, ladies, please lead the way. As you know, as we call upon [ __ ] hunters for this song set of songs, all of our dancers, come on out, line up daily, get your women, your girls together, grab your partner, make sure it's someone who knows what she's doing. God, don't want to get shamed out out there.

[01:23:51]I know how that feels. Getting shamed out out there. Missing a stop, falling down, bell coming off. Got Dia Lashley, come on out.

[01:24:06]All of We're asking all of our women, our beautiful women to come on out.

[01:24:12]It is swan dance time. This is unique to our tribe.

[01:24:21]>> All of our men dancers, you know what to do. Follow behind.

[01:24:27]Every second weekend in August, we do our traditional dances here on the Msquakei Pawa grounds. I welcome everyone to make their way on over.

[01:24:37]Second week in in August, Msquakei annual pow-wow.

[01:24:42]We do all of our traditional dances. We do inner tribals unique to us. Our songs, our dances.

[01:24:54]Been doing that forever. Ever since I can remember.

[01:24:59]Beautiful songs.

[01:25:01]You're out there. Even spectators, they enjoy it. Even if they don't dance, you know, they enjoy watching the dancers.

[01:25:07]They enjoy seeing the hearing the songs.

[01:25:11]It's always a good time at Squanky Annual. Brings us back, brings us together.

[01:25:21]Dancers, it's swan dance time.

[01:25:24]We need all of our women to lead us. Men dancers, all of our men dancers, young men, boys, come on out.

[01:25:33]follow behind.

[01:25:35]It's a time to learn, young people. Come on out. Need not be in regalia.

[01:25:41]Costume, as Jared calls it. Jared says, "Put your costume on.

[01:25:52]Dancers, come on out. You don't need to have your outfit on. You don't need to have your native clothes on. Come on out.

[01:26:09]Rabbit dancers, sweetheart dancers, that is you. Meshwah hug, your signup is up here. Sweetheart dancers, come on up. You have sign up here. Also, all of our singers, hand drum contest, signup is also up here.

[01:26:28]Ellison White, we are still waiting for you, Ellison White. Unless she did come up. I see one. Okay, she did come up.

[01:26:34]There's two envelopes here. She took one of them. Thank you, Ellison, for doing your part as the MAPA msquack annual panel princess.

[01:26:50]Beed cap contest will be closing at 2:30. You have until then to take your beated cap to the blue canopy to my right. Swan dance time.

[01:27:14]are way.

[01:27:44]We are glory.

[01:28:11]We are we are we are we are Hallelujah.

[01:28:52]Where are Where are you?

[01:29:26]Glor high.

[01:30:05]for us for the glory.

[01:30:26]was good.

[01:30:43]Must goal.

[01:30:54]How much?

[01:31:16]follow.

[01:31:37]Walk.

[01:32:00]Hallelujah.

[01:32:07]It all it Are we all ready?

[01:32:32]Y and It all.

[01:33:28]What do you think spectators? What do you think audience? Yeah, beautiful songs, beautiful dance.

[01:33:37]Very proud of my people.

[01:33:50]As we go down the schedule of events, looking to the page two, you will see we are at the buffalo head dance.

[01:34:01]Buffalo head dance.

[01:34:04]We'll move on to the [ __ ] hunters for this song.

[01:34:09]Buffalo head dance time.

[01:34:16]From what I understand, >> buffalo head dance represents the movement of the buffalo.

[01:34:24]As they graze along the prairie, along the forest, mimics their movement. They bow their heads to eat. They move on.

[01:34:36]They make their way feeding, grazing.

[01:34:44]So that's what this dance mimics of the movement of the buffalo.

[01:34:49]So we're going to get two headmen dancers, two leaders. Gekki of course cuz he's headman. And another one get the buffalo headdress on that represents the animal itself. Goop.

[01:35:10]And we're going to keep it with the host drum for this song. These sets of song.

[01:35:14]There's more than one.

[01:35:17]And I encourage all of our young people to watch and listen. That's how you learn. Watch and listen to the songs.

[01:35:25]Watch the dances. It's your job to carry this to the future. So, it keeps going.

[01:35:34]That responsibility is on you.

[01:35:38]And you got it. All you got to do is watch and listen.

[01:35:43]So, at this time, we're going to ask our dancers to make their way on out for the Buffalo Head dance.

[01:35:51]Regalia Makans will be closing the registration for the beated cap at 2:30.

[01:36:01]You got two minutes. Run on up. If you haven't already, run over there. And they're going to close down registration for the beated cap. And they're going to start judging at that time. Once it's closed, they're going to open up the judging. I believe Scott, Mr. Got Steve.

[01:36:22]Is the people voting like every year?

[01:36:25]Steve, the people vote. The people voting. All right. The people will be voting for their the best beated cat in their eyes. Then the one with the most votes will win some shuna, some frog skins, some maza, some money.

[01:36:47]First place is $200. Second place $100.

[01:36:52]And third place $75. Sponsored by Regalia Makans LLC.

[01:36:59]Steve and Terry Scott.

[01:37:07]Dancers come and line up. Come and line up. All of our dancers, young and old.

[01:37:16]Old and young. It's Buffalo Head dance time.

[01:37:23]Another one of our favorite dancers. My favorite dancers.

[01:37:30]Come on. Line up. All of our dancers to the right. To the right of the speaker stand. Looks like they're getting lined up.

[01:37:39]Make some way. If you're in the way, get out of the way for our dancers.

[01:37:48]Yep. Gonna get run over by this herd if you don't get out of the way. No stopping the herd. You heard?

[01:37:59]All right, we got the heads up. [ __ ] hunters, whenever you're ready, sing the appropriate songs.

[01:38:28]Black Lodge. Be ready with Inner Tribal, >> Black Lodge, and Eagle Feather. Be ready in a tribal.

[01:39:00]stand for the Hallelujah.

[01:39:34]Hallelujah.

[01:40:03]When I'm when When I wake up in the Morning.

[01:40:47]Hallelujah.

[01:40:58]Hallelujah.

[01:41:00]Hallelujah.

[01:41:02]Hallelujah.

[01:41:17]Hallelujah.

[01:41:19]Hallelujah.

[01:41:33]We are we are we Where are we?

[01:42:06]Where are they?

[01:42:52]All right, put your hands together for our buffalo head dance. Thank you, [ __ ] hunters. Thank you dancers for that beautiful rendition of the Buffalo Head dance.

[01:43:03]Right after these two inner tribals, starting with Black Lodge, finishing up with Eagle Feather, we're going to go with all of our tiny tots. 0 to six, I believe, would be tiny tots. Tiny tots, be ready. all of our little ones, all of our cute babies.

[01:43:24]Even if you have a diaper on, make sure you're you get up out there.

[01:43:30]Diapers are welcome.

[01:43:36]All right, Gekki and Dia, it is time to lead our dancers and inner tribal time.

[01:43:42]We invite all dancers to come on out and enjoy yourselves.

[01:43:47]It's inner tribal time. Black Lodge, whenever you're ready, we call upon you for that first song. Second song, Eagle Feather. Take it away, Black Lodge.

[01:44:10]>> Sweetheart Dancers, register.

[01:44:12]>> That's coming up. Sweetheart Dancers.

[01:44:30]They go up.

[01:44:54]My sky.

[01:45:22]Where? High God, you know.

[01:45:55]Higher sky.

[01:46:23]Yeah. Yeah. Like that. Good job dancers.

[01:46:26]Good job singers. Black Lodge all the way from Whit Song, Washington.

[01:46:31]All right. Eagle Feather, it's your time to shine. Audience members, come on out.

[01:46:37]Public service announcement, please watch your children. As I mentioned earlier, we have a river behind us. We don't want any accidents. We don't want anything bad to happen. Please keep an eye on your little ones, your young people. Don't let them get to the river.

[01:46:50]Gekki. Gekki.

[01:46:52]>> All right, whenever you're ready, Eagle Feather, take it away. Inner triangle time.

[01:47:14]might of my name.

[01:47:38]I remember Glor.

[01:48:37]God might Ever.

[01:49:40]Let God.

[01:50:06]Thank you, Eagle Feather. Well done.

[01:50:08]Whoa, kind of too loud there. Yelling around up here. Please clear the arena.

[01:50:13]It is time for our tiny tots. Tiny tot time.

[01:50:19]All of our little bit of babies, 0 to six years old, stay on out there. If you aren't already out there, come on out.

[01:50:27]Tiny exhibition time.

[01:50:30]We move on down the line to Msquakei Singers have that song ready. All those little bitty guys. They like kind of dance a little bit fast. They like to spin around.

[01:50:44]Can't have a pawa without our drum group. So, shout out to all of our drum groups here. [ __ ] Hunters, Black Lodge, Eagle Feather, Msquakei Singers, and Msquakei Nation. Thank you for being here and sharing your music, your voices, your songs.

[01:51:02]There is no pawa without our drum groups.

[01:51:10]Jolene still has her stand open. She brought me a taco earlier. It's still here because I just ate before I got here. I did the wrong thing. I ate before I got here. I don't know why I did that, but I'm going to still eat it.

[01:51:22]I still got my taco here. Shout out to Rhonda and Dolan. I don't know what called their stand. They said make up a make up a name for their stand. So, I came up with Rondo. Rhonda and Dolan.

[01:51:34]Rondo stand. They brought up a shake.

[01:51:38]No, they brought over a smoothie, some strawberry lemonade. They brought over a pork chop on a stick with a roll attached to it. It was good. I tore that up. But I'm about to tear up this Jolene Indian taco. So, thank you for bringing those up, feeding me.

[01:51:59]I truly appreciate it. All right, our dancers are out there. Msquakei singers, whenever you're ready, come on out.

[01:52:09]Belt it out. Belt out that song.

[01:52:14]Exhibition time for all of our tiny tot dancers, 0 to six years of age, sweetheart dancers. Come and sign up.

[01:52:23]We need >> five more groups. There's only two signed up.

[01:52:30]>> You'll be in the money.

[01:52:48]Hallelujah.

[01:52:58]Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

[01:53:12]Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

[01:53:14]Hallelujah.

[01:53:26]They are.

[01:53:52]Hallelujah.

[01:53:54]Hey, hey, hey.

[01:54:18]Yal.

[01:54:47]All right, put your hands together for all of our tiny tots doing their best out there for you. Line up. Come see Uncle Jared. Line up and see Uncle Jared. This is sponsored by the Masquangi Annual Pow Association.

[01:55:19]Oh, hey. Auntie Nicole. Auntie Nicole.

[01:55:25]Tiny Tats are our future. They are our present and our future.

[01:55:32]It's good to see them all out there.

[01:55:34]Little bitty ones.

[01:55:37]There's some out there with pampers on still.

[01:55:42]Just giving her. Just giving her.

[01:55:46]Judges. Yep. Judges for the sweetheart dance, please come on up.

[01:55:53]Dr. Terry Scott, Jane Kiana, and Ches Brown, please make it over to the speaker stand. C. Harlon.

[01:56:01]Those are our judges for the sweetheart dance. Sweetheart dancers.

[01:56:05]We still got room for sign up. If you sign up, you'll be in the money. They got three places and consolations and there's only three teams signed up. So, come on out. Grab that sweetheart.

[01:56:20]All right. We're going to do a tiny tots again tonight. Parents, uncles, aunties, grandma, grandpa, meu, we're going to have tiny tots again tonight. So, make sure they're all good to go again. Thank you for bringing them out. Thank for taking care of them that way.

[01:56:47]I was notified that there was a a young um a baby, a 2-year-old climbing that camera over there across from me earlier. So, please keep an eye on your young people, on your babies. They're trying to climb that that camera setup over there on the west side or the east side.

[01:57:11]Watch your young people.

[01:57:14]It's the public service announcement.

[01:57:21]All right, Harlon, we got one of our judges here. We got Terry up here. Jane Kiana, we also need your help as a judge. Cheske Brown, please make way on up. Oh, you got it. All right, come see Harlon.

[01:57:36]It's time for our sweetheart dance.

[01:57:44]>> Sweetheart dance is a couple's dance.

[01:57:52]Msquakei singers, you have been asked to conduct these songs.

[01:57:59]>> Ow dance songs. We get our sweethearts out there. They're going to compete for some cash prizes. There's first, second place, and third place, as well as consolations.

[01:58:28]Oh, I thought there was um >> details.

[01:58:35]>> Oh, >> sweetheart Dance. First place is $200.

[01:58:40]Second place, $150. And third place, $100.

[01:58:46]That is a pretty penny. Constellations, $50.

[01:58:50]So come on out. We call upon all of our sweethearts.

[01:58:56]Even if you're arguing, just get over it for this couple of songs, then start arguing again afterwards.

[01:59:03]That's what me and Name do.

[01:59:07]Come on out. Even if you're arguing, act in some way.

[01:59:16]Two songs, three push-ups each song. Two songs, three push-ups. That's pretty easy, I guess, cuz it's usually four push-ups. So, we're just going to They're going to cut it down to three.

[01:59:28]So, that's in the dancers's favor right there. Msquakei singers, you've been called upon for these songs.

[01:59:37]Counterclockwise.

[01:59:40]Counterclockwise.

[01:59:42]FYI, those are the guidelines.

[01:59:46]Counterclockwise.

[01:59:47]Make sure you're in beat.

[01:59:51]Smile because you're sweethearts.

[01:59:56]No arguing.

[02:00:04]All right, we got three teams out there.

[02:00:07]Any more teams before we get started here? Any more teams? Five.

[02:00:14]>> Four. You get out there. Look, there's three spots, but there's four places.

[02:00:18]So, free money. Get out there. Grab somebody.

[02:00:24]>> Delray and Terry, you have been volunteered. Get out there.

[02:00:32]Nobody wants Must be really rich Indians around here. They don't want some extra money. Che.

[02:00:45]>> Oh, okay. We got some right here. All right. They're right in front of me.

[02:00:48]Blind old man.

[02:00:51]All right. We got our dancers ready.

[02:00:54]Msquakei singers, whenever you are ready, we are good to go.

[02:00:59]Good luck.

[02:01:28]Hey, hey, Hallelujah.

[02:02:04]Hallelujah.

[02:02:16]Hey, hey, hey. Hallelujah.

[02:03:13]Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

[02:03:19]my hey.

[02:03:48]Hey, hey, hey.

[02:04:12]Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.

[02:04:42]All right, put your hands together.

[02:04:44]Spectators, thank you. And give them that encouragement.

[02:04:50]All right, we're going to give them a little break.

[02:04:53]Cuz there was that two songs already.

[02:04:57]All right. Yep. Line up. Come on. Line up. Line up if you would, please. Come and line up. Dancers, couples, sweethearts.

[02:05:08]All right. The judges come take a good look at you. Face the other way. Face the east.

[02:05:20]Thank you to the higher education program for sponsoring this.

[02:05:26]Right after this contest, singers, dancers, we're going to go with two inner tribals. Msquakei nation, you'll have the first inner tribal and this other drum. We need a >> hillside.

[02:05:40]>> Hillside, you will have the second inner tribal.

[02:05:45]Thank you for showing up. Hillside, thank you for setting up, helping us out.

[02:05:55]Looks like a group of young men over here. Hillside, keep going. Keep singing.

[02:06:07]These groups are all in the money. These these sweethearts, these couples, they're all in the money. So, that's good. Putting theelves out there, risking it all.

[02:06:19]All right, fourth place coming up. Let's have a round of applause for this group right here. Round of applause for these young ones. No fear. Good job getting out there.

[02:06:38]Long as you try, man. That's what it's all about. Getting out there.

[02:06:45]They win $50. 25 each. All right.

[02:06:52]Walmart money.

[02:07:01]All right, get ready for third place.

[02:07:04]Round of applause for this group right about here. All right. Round of applause.

[02:07:21]Third place. Well done.

[02:07:24]Good job.

[02:07:29]>> Huh? Another one.

[02:07:44]We got like 10 pens up here. None of them work.

[02:07:49]>> All right. Second place.

[02:07:52]Second place.

[02:07:56]winner of Where's the paper at?

[02:08:05]All right, your second place winners right here all the way from the Dells, right?

[02:08:13]Dell's area, Wisconsin. All right, >> which leaves our first place winners out there. Round of applause for our first place winners.

[02:08:28]Matching outfits. Whoa, that's dope. That's how it's done right there.

[02:08:36]Wish you all good luck in the future as couples, as sweethearts.

[02:08:44]Nothing but >> All right, we're going to have the winners take a photo. So stick around if you would. You're going to sign for your cashola.

[02:08:54]Third place 100, second place 150, first place $200. I don't know how they're going to split it up though, so I have to find out.

[02:09:22]All right, picture time. Picture time for our sweethearts. And we're going to go with inner tribal time. Msquakei nation. Msquakei nation. Whenever you're ready, you go ahead and kick one out.

[02:09:35]And we have hillside on deck. Two inner tribals. We're going to give some time for the next special to get going.

[02:09:44]So, at this time, we get inner tribals for all of our dancers. We call upon Gekki and Dia to lead out our dancers.

[02:09:55]Get out of the way so my shiny forehead is not in the background.

[02:10:08]>> Smile. Act like you like each other.

[02:10:18]That was sponsored by the higher education program.

[02:10:28]All right, Msquaki Nation, it's your time. Intertribal Hillside on deck.

[02:10:34]Gekki Dia, come on out. Bring out your dancers. invite everyone to come on out.

[02:10:42]All of our spectators, those in attendance, come on out. Enjoy yourself.

[02:10:59]Where I am? Where are I am? Where are my way?

[02:11:32]High way higher.

[02:11:52]We are higher.

[02:12:28]Where are you?

[02:12:42]We are all right. Thank you, Miss Squaky Nation. We move on down the drum list to Hillside.

[02:13:15]Whenever you're ready, fellas, take it away. Thank you for joining us.

[02:13:21]>> Dancers, stay out there. Inner tribal time. We invite everyone to come on out.

[02:13:27]>> Kindergarten, the first graders, be ready.

[02:13:41]are high.

[02:14:05]Hey are.

[02:14:48]I'll be All right, let's clear the arena. Thank you, Hillside, for that inner tribal tone. Kind of first graders, it's your time to shine. And it's time for the next special in line sponsored by Jason Pushet Nikiqua and family.

[02:15:36]Kindergarters all the way to first grade. Come on out. It's your time to shine. They're going to They wanted the young people, these kindergarten to first graders to do the bean dance.

[02:15:48]They want to give them an opportunity to learn.

[02:15:53]So that's that's what they want to do.

[02:15:55]So that's what we're going to have happen for this this special this next special in honor of JC and Pushet Taniqua.

[02:16:04]>> What drum?

[02:16:06]>> They didn't specify what drum though.

[02:16:10]And right after that, we're going to have an honor song.

[02:16:14]Honor song by Msquakei Nation. And after the honor song, we're going to move down the line to the Msquakei style applique dance. Sponsor sponsored by Alina Piqua.

[02:16:29]>> First no bean dance.

[02:16:32]>> Oh okay. All kids the first song second song is bean dance. All right.

[02:16:43]>> Yeah. Kindergarten to first grade. Come on out. Kindergarten to first grade. All of our dancers in kindergarten to first grade. We're going to ask Black Lives to sing this song, this first song for all of those little ones. Then the second song will be a bean dance for them.

[02:17:00]That way they have opportunity to learn.

[02:17:04]This is sponsored by the family of Jine Pushet Taniqua. So we're going to get all of our first grade, our kindergarten to first grade dancers. Come on out. All of our the boys and girls alike, come on out.

[02:17:20]We have this exhibition song by Black Lodge. Then after that song, we're going to do a bean dance by Msquakei Nation. I believe Msquakei Nation, you'll have that bean dance song. All right, Black Lodge. Our dancers are out there.

[02:17:37]It's time to showcase our first and second kindergarten to first graders. I hope Hey, higher down.

[02:18:26]Hey, hey, hey.

[02:18:40]Hey, I am high.

[02:19:03]Where are you?

[02:19:21]Y high.

[02:19:48]Where are high higher?

[02:20:00]All right, put your hands together for all of our dancers.

[02:20:05]All right, Jared, we want to line them up for Bean Dance sung by Miss Squanky Nation. Are we going to do an honor song? Honor song. Okay, bean dance.

[02:20:15]Yeah.

[02:20:19]Need not be in regalia. Come on out.

[02:20:22]Kindergarten to first grade.

[02:20:31]>> Oh, okay. Yeah. Entering kindergarten.

[02:20:34]Finishing kindergarten.

[02:20:37]Entering first grade. Finishing first grade. Come on out. Need not be in regalia.

[02:20:44]All right. Head dancers, if you would help us out. Help out our little ones.

[02:20:48]come on out and lead it for them. We're going to do the bean dance. So, they're going to learn through watching you and you two know what you're doing. So, come on out, Gekki and Dia. Help out these little ones. They want to provide the family wants to provide opportunity for these young ones to learn the bean dance because that's how we learn is by doing.

[02:21:11]So, they're they're going to get set up here and they're going to do their best to the bean dance. Maybe it's their first time, maybe it's only their second time, maybe, you know, they're still learning. So, this is a great opportunity opportunity for them to do so. So, good job to the family for thinking about this, thinking about our young people, our little ones. They're getting them lined up. There you go.

[02:21:35]Thank you, Becky, for helping them out.

[02:21:44]Okay.

[02:21:48]>> Yeah.

[02:21:48]>> Yeah.

[02:21:49]>> This was all graduate MSS graduate Jeene pushed Nikico's idea. She didn't want any of their little ones to be excluded.

[02:21:57]She wanted to include all of these little ones. Give them that opportunity cuz I know at annual, you know, we do our best and but we only have one day for our young people and during annual which is awesome. But this is another opportunity for them besides that one day during annual to do this our traditional dance our our bean dance our harvest dance this har this bean dance this dance gives thanks to the creator for the abundant harvest that he blesses us with every year. So that's what this bean dance is is for is to um give thanks through dance for the for the harvest. So, at this time, Miss Squawki Nation is going to sing Bean Dance, and all of our our head dancers going to help and our adults on the other side are going to help.

[02:22:57]You are you are you are you are you are you are you are you are God.

[02:23:44]God are You are God.

[02:24:06]You are you are God.

[02:24:14]God You are God.

[02:24:41]God higher.

[02:25:02]High Wake.

[02:25:35]Wake up. Wake up. Wake up. Wake up. Wake up.

[02:25:53]Hallelujah.

[02:26:03]High wake.

[02:26:19]High.

[02:26:45]>> Hey, that's how you do it. Wow. Uh, two lines, little ones. Two y lines, young people, boys and girls on one line, boys on one side, girls on the other. And we invite all boys and girls to come on out and grab a gift. The family wants, even if you didn't dance out there, they want to acknowledge you, encourage you to next time, come on out.

[02:27:10]Come on out.

[02:27:12]All of our You don't need to have an outfit on. They got bunch of gifts over here. they're able to give. So, they're showing their appreciation.

[02:27:24]And when I acknowledge Jine, she's a graduate.

[02:27:28]I was at the graduation and she received bunch of um scholarships, too. A couple of scholarships.

[02:27:34]Ballad Victorian.

[02:27:36]Awesome. So, it's awesome that to be able to give like this. So, we invite all of our little boys, all of our little girls. Come on out. Two lines.

[02:27:46]You don't even you don't even have to dance. Just, you know, you didn't have to dance. Just come on out. They want to give their gifts away.

[02:27:54]All of our little boys, all of our little girls coming out. Look, I think they got bubbles. Dang, they got gift bags. Bubbles.

[02:28:06]And while we got some time here, I want to announce that Gekki's family has added a woodland contest for under 18 for all of our woodland boys.

[02:28:22]They got extra cash on hand. So, they're going to sponsor a second contest in honor of their graduate headman dancer Gekcki Bear for all of the Woodland Dancers under 18. You have a contest tonight.

[02:28:39]So, shout out to the family for doing that in honor of their graduate Gekki Bear headman dancer.

[02:28:46]So, make sure you dance tonight. Come on out. Tell your family. Tell your friends. Come on out. I want to apologize ahead of time to Miguel Guzman's stand. He got he brought up some fruit up here. He brought up a drink, strawberry drink. And he brought up a street dog. And his stand is in Spanish. Ho kamore.

[02:29:13]Did I butcher that carried away style?

[02:29:15]Made with love as their stand. Street dog is bacon wrapped hot dog with sauteed green peppers and onions.

[02:29:24]And they got the Agna Desanda confessa.

[02:29:29]They got that too. Watermelon on water with strawberries.

[02:29:33]Close enough. They have watermelon sticks, cups, pickles. They got elote pasta. So check out the Miguel Guzman stand made with love.

[02:29:46]Thank you for hooking me up.

[02:29:56]>> Both graduates from high school from Northern Northern Iowa. They both graduated this year.

[02:30:04]>> Oh, okay.

[02:30:07]>> Y All right. We want to move on to Msquakei Nation for an honor song.

[02:30:14]So, at this time, I want to ask JC to come out and >> and Alina to come on out. Alina's graduating from >> University of Northern Iowa and JC's graduating from Msquakei High School.

[02:30:28]Let's have a round of applause for these ladies, what they've accomplished thus far and what they're doing here right now.

[02:30:40]biology.

[02:30:40]>> Elena got a BA in biology, Bachelor of Arts Biology. Nice. Well done. So, whenever Msquakei Nation is ready, we want them to sing an honor song for the family to honor their graduates.

[02:30:58]Sing that one.

[02:31:10]Come dance behind them. All of our friends and family, come dance behind these graduates.

[02:31:19]It's your way of saying, "I'm proud of you. Come dance behind them. Support them.

[02:31:27]>> Invite all our spectators coming out.

[02:31:30]All of our dancers Where are we?

[02:32:08]Hey, hey, hey.

[02:32:22]are.

[02:32:50]Where are you?

[02:32:55]Where are my I am where are Hey, where are we? Where are we?

[02:34:13]Hallelujah.

[02:34:25]Where are you?

[02:34:35]Hey, hey, hey.

[02:34:53]Ille.

[02:35:24]are hey God.

[02:35:59]Hey, hey, hey.

[02:36:18]I am out. Where are we?

[02:36:53]are.

[02:37:07]Where are you?

[02:37:28]Hey, I All right. Thank you, Msquakei Nation, for that honor song in honor of Jason and Alina Pushetaniqua.

[02:38:10]Women's Msquakei style applique, you are up. All of our msquake applique dancers, come on out. We have two songs.

[02:38:24]First song, Black Lodge.

[02:38:28]Second song, Msquakei Nation.

[02:38:34]All right, we still got 50/50 up here.

[02:38:37]Msquakeia Annual Pow Association is has a 50/50 going on. Come on up. Help the cause. They're raising money to have um a social dance night here on the settlement so we can teach everyone the dances.

[02:38:54]Everyone has time to socialize and dance the night away. They're raising money for that.

[02:39:12]All right, we got the judges.

[02:39:15]The sisters aunties will be judging this contest.

[02:39:20]We ask all of our applique dancers to come on out. Make your way closer to the arena if you would please. Not so far out. So we the judges know who's actually out there. Get a good eye on your your beautiful outfits.

[02:39:55]>> As you can see in the the booklet here, It says women's msquakei style applique.

[02:40:04]So there's a emphasis on msquakei style.

[02:40:07]So do your best dance hard as we call upon black lodge for the first song.

[02:40:15]Msquakei nation, you'll be on deck.

[02:40:19]And thank all the dancers for being out there.

[02:40:23]Plenty of dancers. Make sure judges make sure you make your way around.

[02:40:28]They'll be dancing the whole circle, the whole arena. So, judges, please make sure you see every single dancer.

[02:40:45]>> Hey, you.

[02:40:49]>> All right, we got the high sign Black Lodge. Whenever you are ready, our dancers are ready.

[02:40:55]Masquaka applique style in honor of Alina Push. Thank you.

[02:41:17]I say that way.

[02:41:47]I said I am.

[02:42:24]Hey, I I High.

[02:43:24]>> All right, put your hands together.

[02:43:25]There's the first song rendered by Black Lodge. Good song. Good song. All right.

[02:43:33]Give the dancers a little bit of time before we move on to song number two by Missy Nation. Water. Water cruise. Come on out.

[02:43:45]Be quick though. Be quick. No lolly gagging.

[02:44:03]All right.

[02:44:06]The family's asking for another straight song and they're going to go with top five after this second song. Top five.

[02:44:17]It's good to see so many dancers here today. One day powow here msquakei settlement. Could see a lot of visitors out here. See a lot of tribal members out here. Thank you for coming out.

[02:44:32]All right, our dancers are ready.

[02:44:34]Msquakei Nation song number two, straight song.

[02:44:46]Yeah, Never.

[02:45:46]I say someone Hallelujah.

[02:47:10]All right, put your hands together for our applique masquist. style dancers.

[02:47:15]The family has a tough job on their hands. The judges as we going to go with top five. Five. We'll move on to the next round. While we have this time, I want to give us um notice of Ko Dawa Morgan is going to have a memorial applic 2026. To all you applique dancers, make a way on over. First place is $1,000 plus a dress, jacket, and gift bag.

[02:47:49]Second place, $800. 3rd, 6th, fourth, fourth, and fifth place $200. So applique dancers, come on back. First weekend in August, you're invited to take part in that memorial special.

[02:48:04]Chaylee Dawa Morgan.

[02:48:13]Now hold your spots, dancers. Hold your spots.

[02:48:18]Good song from Black Lodge.

[02:48:21]Dancers are very lucky to get Black Lodge and Msquakei Nation. Good songs.

[02:48:26]Making them like it. Making them dance.

[02:48:28]It's always good to have good songs. It helps you dance. Then when the drum helps out it, it's very difficult, very difficult choices here.

[02:48:50]We can only pick five out of this whole group.

[02:48:55]While we have time, I want to let say again that Gekki Bear family has added a contest for the Woodland boys under 18, you will also have a special, not just 18 and over. So, all the young men woodland style, you have a contest tonight. So, come back. Make sure you dance tonight. Paint up, get your best one on, your best setup on. represent your family, represent yourself, your tribe. Tonight, 18 and under, they added a woodland contest for you. And then again, as listed, 18 plus, you also have a contest, Woodland men's contest, in honor of MSS graduate Gekcki Bear. Thank you to family for doing that, adding that extra contest.

[02:49:50]All right.

[02:50:01]>> It's not listed on the schedule, but we do have tiny tots tonight. All of our tiny tots. And the family is going to donate all the extra gifts and bubbles to that exhibition tonight. So, come back. All your tiny tots, come back. You get some bubbles and gifts. So, thank you to the family for donating that.

[02:50:22]All of our tiny tots, come back tonight.

[02:50:26]It's going to be SNL tonight. We're going to have the lights on. We're going to have good weather.

[02:50:32]Tell your friends, tell your family to come back tonight. It's going to be Saturday night live here on the Msquakei settlement, home of the Msquakei Nation. And those who are watching, those who do not know, it's messquacky, not maquakei. So if you want to be cool in the power world, don't say maquakei. Say me squaki.

[02:50:55]There's a subtle difference. So I always try to correct people in a good way.

[02:51:01]Hey, it's msquakei, not maquakei.

[02:51:11]Then they don't pick me in contests and I don't place after that. God, they get mad at me.

[02:51:20]Shout out to Msquakei Nation. I believe they got fourth place last weekend at Forebears. Msquaki Nation representing out there. Well done, fellas.

[02:51:38]All right, one more song. It's a hard job, difficult job.

[02:51:43]So, these dancers are going to earn it.

[02:51:45]They're going to earn that money, that shuna.

[02:51:48]We're going to Msquakei Nation. All right, Msquakei Nation, you know what to do. Good luck, dancers. Get her done.

[02:52:02]Here, here, here, here, here.

[02:52:20]It might Yahoo.

[02:53:06]Y money worthy.

[02:53:36]money.

[02:53:56]>> Hey, did they get it? Did your dancer get it? Yeah, they got it. Good song, Misconation. I especially like that double lead at the end. That was dope.

[02:54:08]All right, water cruise, come on out.

[02:54:10]Pit cruise, come on out. We're going to go at the top five. So, help out your dancer, your relative, your friend.

[02:54:20]Water, water, water.

[02:54:27]Help them out.

[02:54:35]They had to ask for a third song because there's so many good dancers.

[02:54:40]That's good. That's a good thing.

[02:54:43]That's easy for me to say, though. I'm not dancing. Applique looks very hard.

[02:54:47]And don't don't take it the wrong way.

[02:54:49]That's That's hard to That's applique.

[02:54:52]I've been told by my daughter, Nina, it's not easy.

[02:54:57]Burns the calves. It burns the quads.

[02:55:01]This this style is one of my favorites of all time.

[02:55:09]We're very lucky to have this here. This special sponsored by the Push Your Taniqua family.

[02:55:19]All right, we're going to go with top five.

[02:55:24]Round of applause if your dancer gets chosen. Even if they don't get chosen, give a round of applause. Help them out.

[02:55:31]All right, here we go. Our first finalist.

[02:55:37]Congratulations.

[02:55:39]It's an honor to make it this far.

[02:55:46]All right, that's finalist number one.

[02:55:49]Four more to go.

[02:55:53]Shout out to the Browns popcorn stand for hooking me up with a big old brown bag of popcorn. Look up here. There's a giant bag of popcorn up here. It's good.

[02:56:03]All right, our second finalist.

[02:56:31]All right, Jared's making his way for the third finalist.

[02:56:42]All right, round of applause for our third finalist.

[02:56:54]So, when they get done with the fifth finalist, I got some people online asking for names. So, I'm going to make my way down and get names of the top five finalists.

[02:57:06]>> We are live on the internet and we got people asking All right, there's our fourth finalist.

[02:57:22]Congratulations.

[02:57:27]One more. One more to go.

[02:57:44]All right, finalist number five.

[02:57:48]We ask all of our dancers to come on over and shake hands. Thank you for coming on out. and I'll come down to the arena and get the names of our top five for people online that want to know.

[02:58:22]Who's uh who's going to be singing next?

[02:58:32]>> Do we know who's singing next?

[02:58:49]All right. Please let the people know your name.

[02:58:54]>> Ayaba.

[02:58:56]My muka name is Lyric Glassley.

[02:58:59]>> All right. Thank you.

[02:59:03]>> I'm Mary Shikazi. My Indian name is Jagaqua.

[02:59:07]Belong to the Thunderclan.

[02:59:10]>> All right. Thank you, Mary.

[02:59:18]And my name is Leela Wabishaw.

[02:59:21]>> All right, Leela.

[02:59:26]Nina. Lastly, >> all right. Thank you.

[02:59:34]>> My English name is Marley Whitefish.

[02:59:37]>> All right. Thank you to all of our finalists. Now the people online know who you are. They're watching online and we got a who we going with for the next song. Black Lodge, you have been called upon.

[02:59:53]Dancers, if you would make your way out to the arena top five, congratulations for making it this far. It's an honor.

[03:00:00]And you guys get to dance to none other than Black Lodge all the way from Washington.

[03:00:13]All right, >> handrum sponsors, the family, come on up if you would please and let us know details of your contest. We got singers wondering and it'd be good to give out those details. How many push-ups, how many songs, how many singers? Those are the details that we need to know. So, come on up. representative, if you're sponsoring the hand drum contest, please come on up to the speaker stand. Let me or Jared know.

[03:00:44]All right, our judges are ready. Our dancers are ready. Black Lodge contest time. Top five.

[03:01:08]Way higher.

[03:01:10]Way higher.

[03:01:42]way higher. Way higher.

[03:01:54]I can't high I can't high Yes. Yes. Thank you. Yes. That's how it's done. Making me like it. Making us like it. Thank you for sharing your energy with us, ladies.

[03:03:21]I can feel the love. Thank you.

[03:03:28]Their legs are feeling it now.

[03:03:31]Believe it. Thank you, Black Lodge, for that song. Well done.

[03:03:45]All right, we're going to start. I believe we're gonna start with fifth place and make our way up to first place.

[03:04:15]>> All right. The judges are getting last minute instructions.

[03:04:24]All right, round of applause. Are we enjoying ourselves today? Are we enjoying ourselves? Yeah, it's pow time here on the settlement. Celebrate. We don't get to do this all the time.

[03:04:37]All right, fifth place. Round of applause for Nina, right? F. Fifth.

[03:04:46]Oh, okay. Fifth place right here.

[03:04:55]All right. Congratulations. Top five.

[03:04:59]That was Jared's bad. He taken ownership. Good man. Good man. That was Jared's mistake.

[03:05:06]Long as you own up to your mistakes, it's all good. And do good by your mistakes.

[03:05:20]All right, fourth place right here.

[03:05:23]Fourth place winner. Congratulations.

[03:05:28]Good dancing.

[03:05:54]Third place winner right here. Third place champion.

[03:06:00]Thank you.

[03:06:16]second place right here.

[03:06:19]Yay.

[03:06:21]I know her >> and our champion, Lyric Lesley. Round of applause.

[03:06:38]Congratulations, Lyric. Well done. Way to represent. Good dancing.

[03:06:47]Bandelier bag two-piece set. Jeez, Shuna, too. Holy cats, don't be trying to borrow money from her either. Especially her brothers. Her brothers are kind of rugged that way.

[03:07:08]>> Wants to recognize girls that went to state speech with her.

[03:07:12]>> All right. Speech. I'm not sure which girls yet.

[03:07:17]At this time, JC wants to acknowledge some people here, some some members of peers, her peers, >> they went to state speech this year. So, if there anyone any of those individuals that made it to state, she wants to acknowledge you at this time. Uh, the ones made it in the state speech contest in Iowa. They made it all the way to state and speech. So, she wants to acknowledge them at this time. Eva Eva, >> Marie and Dakota.

[03:07:49]>> Eva, Bri, and Victoria.

[03:07:51]>> Eva, Bri, and Victoria. Eva, Bri, and Victoria, come on up. Jine wants to acknowledge you and say good job. They all went to state and and speech. And that's a big accompliment right there.

[03:08:07]Accomplishment. Thank you, JC, for doing that.

[03:08:17]Bri and Victoria, where are you? Come on up. Come on up.

[03:08:32]>> Okay.

[03:08:34]>> All right.

[03:08:46]high school, college.

[03:08:47]>> All right, >> the girls want to acknowledge any 2026 high school or college graduates. Come on up. They have a gift for you. Any college and high school graduates, if you are here, or you should be here, duh. Come on up. Come on up. They want to honor you. First come, first serve.

[03:09:10]Come on up. Don't be shy. Don't be like that. So, thank you to the the sisters for doing this. They're honoring you, their peers. They're saying good job.

[03:09:20]They're saying keep going. Thank you to Eva and Bri. Where's Victoria? Victoria is not up here yet. Come on up, Victoria. She's still waiting for you.

[03:09:31]member of the state team and speech here in Iowa, the land now known as Iowa.

[03:09:42]>> Did our drum groups?

[03:09:48]>> Okay, >> we would like the a representative from [ __ ] Hunters to come up come on up. And we'd like a representative from Eagle Feather, Msquakei Singers, and Hillside.

[03:10:02]Please come on up. Send a representative.

[03:10:09]The family, the girls, they'd like to honor you to say thank you for showing up and singing today. There's no power without the singers, the drums.

[03:10:24]You guys are all sounding she real good.

[03:10:32]>> Representative from Come down here. Yep.

[03:10:35]Representative from those drums I just named. [ __ ] Hunters Eagle Feather Msquakei.

[03:10:42]All right. Graduates come over here to the left of the speaker stand to grace.

[03:10:48]Graduates to the left.

[03:10:51]graduates, college graduates, vocational school graduates, high school graduates.

[03:10:57]Come see Grace. She has a cool shirt for you. Nice looking shirts over here.

[03:11:03]First come, first serve. So come on over before it's too late and you're done missed out.

[03:11:10]Some nice shirts up here.

[03:11:22]Black Lodge, if you would please come on up the whole drum. Come and shake hands with the family.

[03:11:30]We'd like all the singers to come on up.

[03:11:35]Thank you for sharing your songs with us.

[03:11:53]Okay.

[03:11:55]>> All right, Woodland. Remember, we're going to have two rounds tonight for both teens and I can't remember.

[03:12:03]>> For sure. For the adults, they're going to be two rounds. I'm not sure about the teens, the the the under 18 woodland and the over 18 woodland men's. For sure 18 and over will get two rounds tonight, but I'm not sure. So if someone can come up and clarify if there's two rounds for the teens also, let me know.

[03:12:24]Right after this special, we're going to have two intertribals before we get into the hand drum. Three intertribals before we get into the hand drum. So that means there's still time for our hand drum singers.

[03:12:40]I got a couple up here if you guys need to borrow them. One's Remo. That's the only thing. It's fake drum.

[03:12:48]>> All right, Msquakei Nation, send your singers up. Msquakei Nation, come shake hands with the family.

[03:13:19]Is Joe stand still set up? Anybody know?

[03:13:23]All right. Thank you, Joe, for that taco earlier. It was good.

[03:13:28]Tore it up.

[03:13:34]more.

[03:13:35]>> More graduates, you got more shirts available. Don't miss out. Graduates, any and all graduates, come on out and get a shirt. There's our nice shirts.

[03:13:46]High school graduates, come on over.

[03:13:49]College graduates, vocational school graduates, come on over and grab a shirt. Honor the family that way. Don't be shy. Come on out. Help us out.

[03:14:00]5:00 pm supper break. It's now 4 o'clock. So that is on the schedule.

[03:14:10]>> All right. We want to thank the committee. The family would like to thank the committee for coming on out. I mean not coming out for giving us this time for this special. They want to acknowledge the committee at this time for allowing us to do this to honor their graduates, their loved ones. So, good job to the family for doing that.

[03:14:30]>> All right, they got something for me.

[03:14:32]Oh, >> thank you.

[03:14:44]>> All right, we got all the graduates.

[03:14:46]There's plenty of shirts here. Come on over and grab them.

[03:14:51]>> There you go. Desmond's out there.

[03:14:54]>> All right.

[03:14:56]So, it's >> all right.

[03:14:59]>> All right. The handrum contest is a solo solo mission. Two push-ups.

[03:15:07]Solo mission. One singer. Two push-ups.

[03:15:12]I got my hand up here if anybody needs it. And I got a Remo, too. So, you got to have your own drum, but you can borrow mine. It's got good vibes on it.

[03:15:23]I promise.

[03:15:26]So after three in a tribals, who's in line for inner tribal?

[03:15:36]>> Okay. After tonight's quilt presentation of all graduates, they're going to go into the teens under 18 division of the men's woodland. The young men's woodland will be after the presentation of the quilts. And after that we'll have the men's. Yeah. 18 plus first round.

[03:15:58]So the teams will be one set one one goround and that'll be right after the quilt presentation tonight. And after that we'll go to the men's woodland of the first goround. Then we'll have another goround later on in the evening.

[03:16:13]And hopefully we can do the Shaun Lee dance. [ __ ] hunters help us out that way. I know that's a dancer favorite, a spectator favorite.

[03:16:22]Hopefully we can do that tonight at SNL.

[03:16:27]>> Four inner tribos left >> or a full round. Might as well just go full round or what? You guys want to sing? You guys want to sing? All right, we'll go a full round of inner tribals.

[03:16:41]Help the singers out. They want to sing, too. They want to sing some inner tribals. So dancers, it's inner tribal time. We'll go out to the [ __ ] hunters to start us off and we'll go around the list around the circle. Black Lodge, Eagle Feather, Msquakei Singers, Msquakei Nation, and Hillside, be ready.

[03:16:59]Inner tribal time for all of our dancers. Head man, head lady, come on out.

[03:17:05]Lead your people, lead your visitors.

[03:17:08]It's inner tribal time. Starting off with our host drum all the way from downhill [ __ ] hunters.

[03:17:28]>> Come on out dancers. Come on out spectators. Get your steps in.

[03:17:35]>> Good day to dance.

[03:17:38]Just walk around too out there if you want. Just walk around.

[03:17:43]>> Get some exercise in.

[03:17:46]>> You've been sitting all day. Come on out.

[03:18:00]Y glory. Hey, hey, hey.

[03:18:57]Hey, hallelujah.

[03:19:23]Hey, hallelujah.

[03:19:50]Hallelujah.

[03:19:52]Hey, hey, hey.

[03:20:29]All right, thank you [ __ ] hunters. Thank you dancers. We move on down the drum list, the drum order to Black Lodge.

[03:20:37]Black Lodge, hustle, hustle.

[03:20:40]Whenever you're ready. Black Lodge, you guys are sounding good. [ __ ] energy is sounding good.

[03:20:47]Inner tribal time for all of our dancers. We're slowly coming to an end.

[03:20:52]Hand drummers, be ready after this round of inner tribals, be ready. All of our hand drum singers.

[03:21:00]One, two, three, four, five. We got five signed up. So, it's it's still open, I believe. So, it's only one singer, two push-ups.

[03:21:11]All right, Black Lodge intertribal time.

[03:21:48]There is such a Happy birthday.

[03:22:31]Amazing.

[03:23:02]Oh my god.

[03:23:19]Amazing.

[03:23:42]All right. Thank you, Black Lodge. Thank you, Black Lodge dancers. Get ready for Eagle Feather Inner Tribal Time. We're winding down before supper break and we still got the sign up here. So let us know if you want to sign up. It's still up here at the speaker stand. Eagle Feather Inner Tribal Time.

[03:24:12]I am way away.

[03:24:43]Let us guide away.

[03:25:04]Where are you?

[03:25:30]Hey, our I'm Where are we?

[03:26:15]Amen.

[03:26:33]Amen.

[03:26:42]Hey my way.

[03:26:56]Way I am.

[03:27:27]Women away.

[03:27:41]Thank you, Eagle Feather, for that inner tribal song.

[03:27:46]We move on down to Msquakei Singers.

[03:27:50]Msquakei Singers, take it away with your inner tribal song. Hand drummers, be ready. Be ready. All of our hand drummers, we got one, two, three, four, five, six now.

[03:28:14]are.

[03:28:48]Hallelujah.

[03:29:23]Hey, hey, hey.

[03:29:47]Wow.

[03:30:06]Wait.

[03:30:18]are la.

[03:30:44]Hallelujah.

[03:31:00]are hey God.

[03:31:42]All right. Thank you, Msquakei singers for the inner tribal song. Msquakei nation, you are up in the lineup. Thank you dancers for staying out there. We got two more inner tribals before we move on to the hand drum contest.

[03:31:58]So far we have six contestants, two push-ups, one singer. All right, Miss Guaki Nation, Inner Tribal Time.

[03:32:16]Yeah.

[03:32:36]are.

[03:32:52]Where are we?

[03:32:59]I'm not going to put it on.

[03:33:17]Father, pray.

[03:33:45]Yay.

[03:34:09]Where are you?

[03:34:23]Hey, I know.

[03:34:49]Wow.

[03:35:07]Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.

[03:35:14]That was Msquakei Nation in the house.

[03:35:19]We move on down our rotation to Hillside. Hillside our final inner tribal of the afternoon. Singers be ready. Hand drum.

[03:35:43]Way up.

[03:36:00]I am happy.

[03:36:25]Yeah, I am. Yeah.

[03:37:19]Hey, hey, hey.

[03:37:41]All right. Thank you dancers. Thank you singers. Sounding good. That was our final inner tribal of the afternoon.

[03:37:50]as we come on slow on down to hand drum contest. We're gonna uh it's now 4:30 and at five o'clock we're g they're going to feed over here to the left of the speaker stand and it's sponsored by the family of Dorian Bellesquez MSS grad sponsored by his family. So on his behalf they're feeding all the people here and hearing distance. So, at five o'clock, make your way on over to the the shed over here to the left. We're gonna feed everyone here. So, thank you to the family of Darien Blesquez.

[03:38:28]All right. Where's the family at? The family that's sponsoring the hand drum.

[03:38:33]If you would please come on over.

[03:38:36]Singers, you got two push-ups. One one singer. Just a solo mission.

[03:38:43]Solo mission two push-ups. We got six signed up and it's still open, but right now we got six. All right, you go. We got seven now. Lucky number seven, it's still open. Come on up. You only have to sing two push-ups.

[03:39:00]The family of the the sponsors, this one the family that's sponsoring this contest, please come on up.

[03:39:11]Sel and Chain Edson family, come on up.

[03:39:18]>> Yeah.

[03:39:54]Anuta Piano. You Ana.

[03:40:04]Trey K. Bian, are you Trey K >> asked me to also mention sponsorship of the meal by Marcus Bear family. So, thank you Marcus Bear family for also helping out with the meal and feeding all of our people here at our 2026 graduation pawa here on the Masquakei settlement.

[03:40:44]We got our judges lined up. We're still waiting for Anuta. Ana, where I said I I'm losing my hearing.

[03:40:56]I'm 48 now. I'm 48. So, my hearing is kind of going out. So, not you are a judge.

[03:41:07]Adeu, is this going to be random or do you want to go off the list?

[03:41:17]>> Okay, this is going to be random. So, it don't matter how you signed up.

[03:41:41]Payton Pelky, you are up first. Payton Pelky, you are up first.

[03:41:51]Payton Pelky, come on up to the mic. You are up first.

[03:41:56]Two push-ups. We got our judges ready.

[03:41:59]Trey Adu and Daniel.

[03:42:09]Yep. We got a camera right here. So, you got to stand right there in front. Make sure you zoom in on their mouth when it's wide open.

[03:42:17]Brownie points if you got food in your mouth, too.

[03:42:30]All right, mic man. Mic man.

[03:42:38]All right, our judges are ready. Our singer is ready. Two push-ups. Payton Heli.

[03:42:53]where I'm happy again.

[03:43:18]It's been a long time since the last time.

[03:43:34]where I'm happy to say again.

[03:43:56]It's been a long time since the last time.

[03:44:06]All right, put your hands together for our singer number one, Payton Pelky. All right, pick a number between one and eight. Paige, where's Paige go? All right, pick a number between one and eight, but but not six.

[03:44:24]Number four, Lincoln Kingbird, come on up. Lincoln Kingbird, you are drum number two. Singer number two.

[03:44:39]All right, judges are handing in their ballot. Thank you to the mic man for helping us out. Next up, we have Jason Jason. This is Lincoln Kingbird, the son of Jason. Lincoln Kingbird.

[03:44:53]All right, whenever you're ready, Link.

[03:45:00]Hey hey Hey, hey, hey.

[03:45:42]Do I ever cross your mind?

[03:45:47]As for me, as for me, it happens all the time.

[03:46:01]Hey hey hey of do I ever cross your mind.

[03:46:42]As for me, as for me, it happens all the time.

[03:46:53]Oh, Lincoln Kingbird on the mic.

[03:46:59]George Bear, you are up. George Bear.

[03:47:08]Two push-ups for George Bear.

[03:47:13]They're handing in their ballots. We got Adigu, Daniel, and Trey, our judges for the family. Thank you for helping them out.

[03:47:24]Avery, right? Avery. Yeah, Avery's helping us out on the mic. Thank you, Avery, for helping the family out. All right, George, whenever you're ready.

[03:47:33]Two push-ups.

[03:47:45]Hey hey hey.

[03:48:22]Yes, it's true. Yes, I mean it. Yes, I do. I really love you.

[03:48:38]All right, put your hands together for George Bear. Well done, George.

[03:48:44]Joe Marsette, where are you? Joe Marsette, you are singer number four.

[03:48:54]Beautiful songs for a beautiful day.

[03:48:56]Thank you to all that are sticking around and hear these songs. It's almost supper time right after this contest.

[03:49:14]H hey girl, you know this is true.

[03:49:36]You got the right one, baby.

[03:49:41]Hey, hey, hey.

[03:49:57]Hey, hey, hey.

[03:50:23]You know the truth.

[03:50:27]You got the right one.

[03:50:32]Hey.

[03:50:46]>> All right, put your hands together for Joe Morsette.

[03:50:52]Randomly, we'll choose Desan Beay. Come on out, Desan. It's your time to shine on the mic. two push-ups. Your style.

[03:51:07]I want to shout out again the TNF girls basketball. They're raising funds to head to Mesa, Arizona to represent us Msquakei in basketball.

[03:51:18]$10 a ticket, $20 for three. And they're also selling fruit cups. So, make sure you help them out. They're raising funds on their own to head to Mesa, Arizona for a basketball tournament down that way. All right, Dan, whenever you're ready. Two push-ups.

[03:51:53]I hey I hey baby girl it felt so right to Hold you close and tight in my arms all night.

[03:52:28]I'll never want to let you go because I love you oh so much. Heyo.

[03:52:41]Hey.

[03:52:48]Hey. I high baby girl so right to hold you close and tight in my arms all night.

[03:53:22]I'll never let you go because I love you so much. Hey, good one. Good one.

[03:53:43]Randomly chosen Willie D. Come on out, Willie D. It's your time on the mic and the one man handr Willie D two push-ups.

[03:53:55]Judges got their ballots in.

[03:53:58]Mike man's toughing it out. Still out there. Arms probably getting tired, but he's giving her. He's just giving her.

[03:54:05]Willie D. Two push-ups.

[03:54:15]High high high we are we We are high.

[03:55:20]All right, put your hands together for Willie D from across the river.

[03:55:28]Misu Do, are you here? Misu. All right, there's Misu.

[03:55:34]Misu is going to show us how he does it.

[03:55:38]Two push-ups from Misu Doo.

[03:56:11]Every star in the sky twinkles in your eye.

[03:56:21]Oh girl, I will never ever let you go.

[03:56:28]Hey, hey, hey.

[03:56:54]Every star in the sky twinkles in your eye and I love it so I will never let you go.

[03:57:14]>> All right. Thank you, Misu.

[03:57:20]Singer number eight, Jason Kingbird.

[03:57:22]Come on up. Two push-ups from Jason Kingbird.

[03:57:30]>> Oh, okay. We're going to need some more ballot slips. So, we just need a little bit of time to getting more ballot slips ready. Good problem to have. Not enough paper. So, that means there's more singers than they were thinking.

[03:58:02]Okay, the beaded cap contest voting will be closing at 5:30. So, if you haven't voted yet, make sure you go over to the stand to my right. It's a blue canopy.

[03:58:15]And vote. You can only vote once. Okay?

[03:58:17]Just vote for your favorite. Vote. Only vote once.

[03:58:21]We only got one more singer after this.

[03:58:23]One more singer after this. Right after Jason Kingbird. Two push-ups. Jay, whenever you're ready. Two push-ups.

[03:58:30]Mike man. All right. Here we go.

[03:58:51]Where are we?

[03:59:05]There's nothing I wouldn't do to be there holding in you.

[03:59:19]Don't cry.

[03:59:22]Close your eyes.

[03:59:24]And I will be right there holding you.

[03:59:42]are there's nothing in this world I wouldn't do to be holding you don't cry.

[04:00:18]Close your eyes and I will be right there holding you.

[04:00:34]>> All right, Jason Kingbird on the mic.

[04:00:40]All right, the last singer on their list, Rock Island Bob, come on up. Step on up to the mic and show us what you got.

[04:01:05]Hey hey heyo.

[04:01:31]Hey hey hey hey hey hey hey heyo.

[04:02:02]Hey, hey, hey.

[04:02:24]Hey, hey, hey.

[04:02:50]All right. Thank you, Rock Island Bum.

[04:02:55]Now we do the tabulations and it is in fact could I call it supper time over there?

[04:03:03]You guys ready for supper cooks? It's 4:55.

[04:03:08]Can we send them on over? No. Okay, not yet. Good thing I checked. I was going to say let's go in, but they're not ready yet. It is not 5:00. So, they're going to do the tabulations here real quick.

[04:03:27]>> Okay, they're gonna announce it later.

[04:03:28]So, be ready, singers. Be ready. Be forewarned.

[04:03:33]Maybe there's a tie. We don't know. But thank you for the family for supporting their graduates by sponsoring this handrum contest.

[04:03:45]It's beautiful weather out here.

[04:03:53]If there isn't any, if there's high school graduates that haven't selected their quilt yet, please come to the back of the speaker stand to do so. High school graduates, if you haven't selected your quilt yet, come to the back of the speaker stand and do so at this time. Come see Travis. He's back here waiting for you guys to pick out your quilt if you haven't done so already.

[04:04:36]That was a good first session of pow-wow.

[04:04:42]Now it's supper time. Everyone's on supper break. Make sure to come back right before 7.

[04:04:50]7 o'clock grand entry.

[04:04:53]Tell your friends. Tell your family.

[04:05:00]Soon as I get the high sign, soon as I get word, I'll let you know when uh supper is ready at the cook.