A pow wow is a traditional Indigenous gathering featuring music, dance, and cultural celebration, organized into specific dance contest categories based on age and dance style. The categories include: Senior Men's Traditional (35-49 years), Senior Women's Fancy, Senior Men's Fancy, Junior Men's Traditional, Junior Women's Buckskin, Junior Men's Grass, Junior Women's Fancy, Junior Men's Contemporary Chicken, and Junior Women's Old Style Jingle. Each category has specific age ranges and dance styles, with contestants competing in lineups while judges evaluate their performances. The event also includes special features like power auctions, merchandise vendors, and community activities such as fireworks for birthday celebrations.
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2026 Kainai Pow Wow - Saturday
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>> Hey. All right, we're moving the mic man over to Back Road Bandits over at Sage Hill. Wave your hand, Sage Hill. They got some merchandise for sale. You know, we help out the singers, the drummers that travel. They go this way, they go that way. They have I think you have t-shirts, hoodies, keychains, and the lost and found. Oh, not that secret. If you're looking Oh, they got hats even.
Good ones. And some chairs. I do believe you have some chairs. We're having a power auction tomorrow at high noon. So, be here. Bring your goods. All right. We got the high sign, Monte.
There it is. Back Road Bandits.
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>> Ah, indeed. Indeed. Thank you, Back Road Bandits. We're going to turn the sounds over here to turning robe.
What do you say, Monty? It's Saturday night. over here at Ghana ending days or living memories or making memories on a beautiful Saturday night here in Treaty7 territory.
We got the sound there. The judges are there and we're set to go. Let's get them dancing. Turn and robe. Here we go.
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[music] >> [screaming] >> Thank you. Turning robe making some noise here on a Saturday night. We'd like it for you. We're going to move on over here to the sounds of Nakota Nation once all of our judges get there as well as the sound. We appreciate all of your inner tribal attendees, all of you here coming out.
We see folks from all generations out there enjoying themselves. Good family time. Good family time.
As soon as we can, we're going to go ahead and turn it on over here. We're going to keep them moving and grooving.
We're ready to go. Nakota Nation, you're on the air. Sing one for the people.
Here we go.
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Way to bring a song here on a Saturday night.
We're going to move on over here to the great state of Montana.
We're going to call upon our next drum group here in the lineup.
Anytime you're ready, as soon as I get the go sign, we're going to go ahead.
We're going to get right into some more inner tribal dancing, celebration dancing, good time dancing.
Oh, Monty, he said, "Let's do it." Here we go. Rocky Boy Agency, you're live.
Here we go.
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>> [music] [music] >> Ah, that's how we do it. Thank you, Rocka Boy Agency. We're going to move all of the uh singing personnel over here to Blackfoot Confederacy and the sound. We got a full round of inner travels coming your way. If you're feeling the groove, you're feeling the vibes, come on out. Come on out. Come and enjoy yourself.
We only live on a Saturday night every now and again.
I believe we're set to go. We call upon Blackfoot Confederacy. Let's get them dancing. Here we go.
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Judges that were asked to help us with our dance judges also stand by. We don't want to be uh calling when we're done our inner travels calling and calling and calling. No, we're putting our aame to pow-wow. I'm looking at Monty and he's got the signal going. Let's go to Wild Rose.
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[music] >> All right. Stick around. Good to see you. Oh, we found a dad. We found a dad.
Oh, there was four dads up here. But no, all the wrong dads.
[laughter] Black Lodge, we're coming to you. Good to see you, Sugar Bear. Good to see you in the house. Yeah, just don't mazula this powo. Yeah, [laughter] I'm not going to say it. All right, here we go. Black Lodge.
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And then you're going to stand in line.
One more. One more. One more. Now's the time to get your one more in there.
Right, Nugget? Yeah. What mom names their beautiful little fluffy baby Nugget?
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[music] >> All right. Thank you, Singing Spirit.
And I have a little announcement here.
And uh we're gonna go to the next drum, Indian Hill. But before we do that, we'd like to uh gift baby flats from uh from the grandparents of uh >> Rudy.
>> Rudy and the granddaughter for the first time dancing.
Uh I think that's Lacy Good Striker, her first time on the floor. And uh we would like to give Baby Flats a little honorarium. that our our boss lady stand right beside you, baby flats. There it is. All right, here we go. Indian Hill [music] I [music and singing] baby.
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[music] [music] [music] >> All right, stay out there. We're over at Descendants. We're over there now. Come on in, dancers. Come on in. Boy, oh boy.
We're filling up the dance floor. All dance judges, we got the chairs set up here for you. And we're going to go with the uh with the uh special of the women's cloth. Stand by. Women's cloth.
We're going to go right into that. Now, listen up. It says one song on the agenda. And we're kind of sticking close to that agenda. And I do believe Monty says we're good. Descendants.
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We got uh Seven Up cherry. We got the big jar of dill pickles. Holy smokes.
Hot Cheetos. All that good stuff on the jar. We're moving over here. Don't forget the power auction tomorrow at high noon. Bring your stuff to sell. We have some stuff already coming up to the front, but that's tomorrow. Lil Rock in the house.
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Call your judges. All right, call all the judges for the women category. Come on over front now. We got the chair set up also the male judges. We're going over to let me say this here. Sikotoi left bridge.
Yeah, we don't have tiny. We're getting right into the at all categories. All right. Monty says muk boy suck here in blood country. Oh.
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[laughter] >> Women's class standby.
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My >> [music] [screaming] [screaming] >> There you have it. All right, we got two more. Coad chomping at the bit. If you have a car or a vehicle that has the C44 1186, a Titan white vehicle, we need to move that vehicle because there's a a handicapped person trying to get into that area and you're parked right on the road. We need Rod Balon and we need uh Mel, I think Mel, I don't know how to say his name. Cabiosis or something.
And Toby and Toby. All right. What do you say, Monty? All right. There it is.
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Oh boy. Oh boy. Dancers are filling up the spot. We got one more it and that's Creek Confederation. We're calling all the dance judges would like to ask the women's cloth to stand by.
Senior women's cloth 35 to 49.
Chicken rain. And all your judges ready?
All right. Thumbs up here. Leah said thumbs up here. And we're going over to where we got Monte. Hold up. Monty says hold up. Monty says my voice is on that recording. So I'm going to buy that CD.
Old ways.
>> Keep [laughter] talking.
>> Keep talking. Don't forget about the power auction tomorrow morning at noon.
So bring all your good stuff when we're going to sell it fast and furious.
They're only giving us 45 minutes to sell, so bring your stuff bright and early. We're good to go. CRE Confederation check.
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[music] Hey, [music] hey, hey. [music] >> [music] [screaming] >> Hey, [music and singing] [screaming] >> there you have it. There you have it. I just don't understand. They're going to have fireworks on your CD. Oh yeah.
We're going to pick a name out of the hat. hat. We're going to pick a name out of the hat. And the name that we pick out of the hat is going to win this beautiful bike valued at about $265.
The name we picked out of the hat goes to Ara Crazy Boy. You got one song to get here. And now we're calling out all the cloth dancers in the gold in the senior adult division 35 to 49.
I'd like to thank the power committee for uh having fireworks for my birthday.
Boy, you guys think of everything.
[laughter] >> Way to go, Chief. You guys did it. And uh I didn't ever ever in my world uh thought I'd have fireworks for my birthday, but you guys went out of your way put a big pow on for this for this birthday boy and uh and bought me chicken and you bought me rice. Oh boy, that's a that was a good gesture, Chief, for putting a big pile on and putting fireworks on for my birthday. Thank you, Tony. Thank you. Where else can that happen? Where else? I'm going to turn things over here. Oh, I was going to do the the girls. You got to do the guys.
All right, come on out, judges. Come on out, judges. We're going to go around the horn there, R. Uh uh Rusty, we're Baby Flat. Circle up.
>> Baby Flats.
Come on in judges. Now on this category judges, you might have to walk around because some of our dads are going to do the stationary and some of them are going to uh do the casual walkabout.
All the cloth dancers, the cloth dancers.
And stand by stand by men's traditional. This is this cloth. All right. Baby Flats.
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[music] All right, come and line up right here.
Put your brown hands together. Line up right there. Don't come too close. Too too too too close. It's not The sun is not out anymore. Now, we're going to line them up and call out the next category.
Senior men's traditional. Come on out there. We're going to be coming on over here to the sounds of Sage Hills. Sage Hills. All of the senior men's dance contestants, make your way out to the dance arena. We're talking about the 35 to 49 years of age contestants. Make your way to the dance area.
Sign [snorts] your men's traditional.
Man, earlier ago, man, when we had that Tobias Provost uh traditional special, man, they had some good songs, how we just deadly, right? Deadly.
I learned that over here over here in Treaty 7. You know, Chief, they talk about right deadly. Here we go. Time to contest. Sage Hills, we turn it over to you. Let's get them dancing. Here we go.
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[music] >> [music and cheering] [music] [singing] >> Ah, there we go. How about a big round of applause as they come on over here to the lineup here. Outstanding.
Outstanding.
And now, and now we're going to be calling out 35 to 49 women's buckskin singing for you. We got Blackfoot A1 Club to sing this song. We're looking for area Crazy Bull. You got five more minutes to come and claim your prize.
If anybody knows where she is, bring her over here now. Otherwise, we're going to pick another name. We're going to the Blackfoot A1 Club as soon as Rusty gives me the sign to look the signal. The sign to look the signal. There it is. Let's make them dance. Contest time.
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And there you have it. Come and line up over here. Show your numbers. Judges, don't put numbers down until they're all in line. Tell her they're all in line. I think that's enough fireworks for my birthday.
Donnie, >> sing your men's grass. Make your way on over this way. BRB. Have a wicked contest song ready to go.
We told them to calm down. And here they amped right up here. Holy smokes, the grand finale.
[laughter] >> This is all for Howie Thompson's birthday.
Yeeha.
[laughter] All right, we're coming on over here.
It's contest time. Turn them up. Turn them loose. Set them free. Back road bandage. Here we go.
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>> Oh. All right. Come on over here and line up here. Big round of applause to the grass dancers. Thank you, BRB.
Man, you know, we finally got your uh birthday fireworks all finished up here.
And uh I'm glad you composed yourself.
There was a lot of tears that were shed.
Muhawi, >> I know. And I'd like to thank Ming's uh uh concession for sending up all that Chinese food for uh for my birthday, too. Thank you, Mings.
I can't say enough.
>> Man, that was quite the fortune cookie you got there.
>> Shut up. Shut up. [laughter] >> All right, turning robe. What do you say? Is it one group, Rusty?
All jingle dress, come on in. I know I'm talking about contemporary.
>> Contemporary.
>> Yeah, I'm just uh I'm just overwhelmed with everything that happened on my birthday.
>> I know you're going to give Rusty anism.
[laughter] >> Turning robe. Hookah.
Glory.
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>> [music] >> Sing your men's contemporary chicken.
Stand by.
Hey, >> there it is. Come and line up. Put your brown hands together. Paid them off at a round of applause. And also, we have a lost little boy up here. He's singing his own song a little louder.
He's got a little gray shirt. He's got a little What kind of a green sweatpants?
>> Shoes are on the wrong side.
>> His shoes are on the wrong foot. He's going to meet a bear. Come on out, grass. We found a wallet. If this is your wallet, come and identify the wallet or a purse.
>> It's got a got a It's got some cash in it. And we'd like you to identify the this purse that came up here. All right, Donnie. All right, senior men's contemporary chicken is on the playing field here. We're going to turn it on over here to the sounds of Nakota Nation. We're set to go. Let's get them dancing.
Here we go.
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>> [music] >> Old style jingles. Stand by.
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[music] [singing] [music] I do it here on a Saturday night. Big round of applause to our senior men's chicken.
We still got that lost child up here and uh he's kind of having a little bit of a breakdown, but uh parents, caregivers, uh we got 30 minutes before we turn him over to uh child protection services, our council members. Uh make a plea to all of you caregivers that brought your children to the pawa. Please watch over them. Uh we're running out of Ming's food. No more Ming Chinese food. So, uh, we need to be able to cheat feed the children here.
>> As soon as he was crying, they showed him a little bit of Ming's food, and it stopped them from crying. Just like that. Thank you, Mings, for helping us babysit. All right, we're going to call out our uh our next category to come on out onto the onto the dance floor, and that will be the old style jingle. Come on in. Old style jingle. Also tomorrow the grand entry the grand entry is only for war bonnets only for straight up headdresses only for whistles and also for belts and big drums and if you have a tire iron and and also the whips >> and sword >> and sword and the side eyes. Oh, >> and [laughter] all right, here we go. Rocky boy agency.
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There you have it. Come and line up over here. Put your brown hands together.
Let's pay them off with a beautiful round of applause. We found a wallet that was turned in up here. You have to come up here and identify that wallet.
If not, I'll be taking it back and we'll bring it back tomorrow. Donnie Spideyel, sing your old style chicken dentures.
Contestants, come on out. We want to uh make sure we get a final headcount before we call for the song.
Senior Men's Old Style Chicken, stand by.
Senior Woman's Fancy, Senior Men's Fancy, we're coming your way. Blackfoot Confederacy, you have the song. We turn it on over to you. We're set to go.
Contest time. Let's get them dancing.
Here we [laughter] go.
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Thank you, Donnie. Senior Women Sansancy, come on out. Singing for you.
We're going to go to >> Northern Cree. Northern Cree. They'll have this one here. Once again, come on out and uh we'll see if it's one big group. Once again, tomorrow the grand entry for tomorrow is for uh uh war bonnets only, straight up headdresses, whistle carriers, belts, big drums, >> and whips.
Okay.
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>> Oh, and split horns. And split horns. I get it. All right. He says we got the high sign. Northern >> cre hookah.
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>> [music] [screaming] >> Oh boy. A money song for a money category. We're hope the best you get to the pay window. Now we're going to go to to our final category in the senior adults, Donnie Spideyel. All right, here we go. Senior men's fancy, come on out to the dance floor. Wild Rose, stand by now. Good people out there, power fans, don't blink a eye. You might miss something. It's going to be quick. It's going to be fast. It's going to be furious right here. We're set to go. It's contest time. We turn it on over here to Wild Rose. Let's get wild. Here we go.
Saturday Night Live.
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[music] Holy smokes. Woo! Yeah, man. We just witnessed other men abusing other men.
Holy smokes.
Oh, come on over here, gentlemen. Come on over here. We're going to call out the next category of dents here. We're going to call out the uh junior adults to start getting ready over here. Uh Tony, you got this one, brother. We're going to uh send it on over here to Kai's uh greatest. Here we go.
>> Right on. Thank you. All right, we're going to call on our junior women's cloth. If you could start making your way out to the dance area. We're going to keep things moving along.
As we're moving along, Rusty Howie was saying he couldn't even tell one joke.
He uh his whole birthday.
So, he's going to come back tomorrow with all his material >> auction at noon 12:00. So, we invite all you good people uh bring your items tomorrow and we'll be able to have an awesome uh Indian auction. We're going two groups before we uh >> Okay, Black Lodge, stand by. We're going to go with you. We have uh two groups.
Group number one be out there. All right, we got the high sign. We're ready to go. Contest Black Lodge. Take it away.
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[music] [music] [music] Hallelujah.
Heat. Heat. [music] [music] Hallelujah.
[music] Hey [music] >> [music] >> High [music] [music] [screaming] [music] down [music] aha.
Oh yes, that was song number one. We're going to go with song number two. Stand by singing spirit water people quickly go out there. Short little break.
Donnie, it was a hot one today. You know how hot it was?
>> How hot was it, Tony?
>> It was hotter than a separatist finding out his kid likes natives. That's how hot.
>> Ooh, a hot one.
>> [laughter] >> Take the mic away from him. All right, here we go. Song number two. Singing spirit. Take it away.
[music] Hey, high [music] [music] high.
High.
[music] Hey. High [music] hey [music] high hey higher hey high high high I [music] hey hey high hey high high hey Higher.
Hey.
Hey. High. [music] [music] Hey hey [music] hey [singing] high. [music] [screaming] Hey, high [music] >> beautiful big round of applause. Thank you, uh, Singing Spirit. Beautiful song.
We're going to keep things moving along.
Indian Hill standby. And of course, we're going to call out the Junior Men's Traditional at this time to make their way out.
to the dancer. Oh, second group. Sorry.
>> Group number two.
It was that whole separatist talk messed me up.
[laughter] >> All of a sudden, I almost got political.
Group number two, we're going to invite you back out to the dance area. And of course, once we get the high sign, we're we're just waiting on our judges.
Brother And of course, uh, right after this, our men's traditional women's, uh, bucks.
We'll let you know if they're going to be two groups. All right, we got the hash on. We're ready to go. Indian Hill, take it away. [music] [music] Oh baby, [music] I your hands It was Oh my [music] [music] god.
[music] [screaming] >> [music] >> Baby. [music] [music] [music] My son [music] [music] [music] >> [music] >> might. [music] [music] [music] >> [music] >> My name [music] was [music] [music] [music] Beautiful water. People quickly go out there and uh the descendants stand by. Milo Fox, you are being summoned over here. If you could come up. Your dad is looking for you. And uh we're just giving them a quick little break. But just uh we wanted to make a quick announcement.
Travis and everyone. Our uh Blackfoot Confederacy hockey team that's playing down east, they are in the semifinals.
They'll be playing the Moose Cree tomorrow. Let's give them a big round of applause, playing championship style hockey.
All right, Theren, are you ready?
Okay, let's go. Song number two, The Descendants.
Where are [music] we? Where are we?
[music] Hey, [music] we are [music] we >> [music] >> Hey, hey, hey.
[music] [music] Where [music] are you? Where are you? Where are you? Where are [music] we? Where are we? Where are we? [music] I [music] am [music] we [music] are >> [music] >> Well, what do you say, Ghana? Big round of applause. Thank you. Beautiful song.
Okay, make your way over here. We're going to call on the Junior Men's Traditional. So, if you could please start making your way out to the dance area. This way, we'll let you know if there's going to be one group. There's going to be two groups. We are going with two groups. So, get out there as quickly as you possibly can. As we know in some of the categories, there's lots and lots of dancers. So, we want to be able to make sure that the judges as well the spectators are able to watch the uh the powow. So, And of course the good folks in Beundy, the White Eagle Wellness, they invite uh all of you to their uh White Eagle Wellness POWA that's going to take place July 31st. August 1st and 2nd. August 30 July 31st is the um traditional paw the first and second contest over there in the Beani Nation. So that's going to be pretty cool. So again, group one, stay out there. Group two, step to the side.
All right, here we go. We got the high sign contest group number one. Little Rob, take it away.
[music] Hey I [music] heal.
[music] [music] [music and singing] [music] I am I [music] [music] [music] I am [music and singing] I [music] am [singing] [music] >> [singing] >> I [music] I [singing] [music] [music] hey I [music] Hey, hey, [music] hey.
[music] I I [music] [music] [music] [music] What do you say? Put your hands together. That was song number one.
Soki, stand by. We're going to go with you with song number two here just in a few seconds. And then of course, we're going to call out group number two right after this. So, we're going to keep things moving along.
>> Yeah, we dropped the feather right after.
All right, we got the high. We're ready to go. Soki, take it away.
for for [music] [music] nobody.
>> [music] >> Let the merchot.
for [music] sex.
>> [music] >> Short.
>> [music] >> Short [music] >> [music] >> Oh yes. Put your hands together, ladies and gentlemen. Okay, dancers, make your way over here. We're going to keep things moving along. We need group number two to start making their way out to the dance area.
Of course, we have to wait for this group of uh judges. But uh Travis, I just wanted to mention we have four young people. We're talking about hockey. So, last night when the PAWA was over, we had uh Strider Rabbit, we had um striker uh Weaselhead Hartley, good striker, and Tash Robinson. They're all young hockey players. When the PAWA was done, they came in and they helped clean up. So, we just wanted to give them a shout out. Those young hockey players, let's give them a round of applause.
So, group two, you should all be on the dance floor.
>> And of course, shout out to Pizza 73 for causing a traffic jam over there.
>> [laughter] >> Every other uh every other vehicle that needs to move, they're parked by Pizza 73. All right, we got the high sign.
We're ready to go. Contest, we chose Zane. Take it away.
[screaming] I can't take [music] Mother [music] I can't [screaming] take [screaming] [music] again. Oh god.
I [music] get again.
[music] I got the I got >> [music] >> Wicked. Big round of applause. Thank you.
>> All right, we're going to call on Kad for song number two.
>> Yeah. Now Josh wants the mic. All right, we got the high sign. We're ready to go.
Kad, take it away.
Oh, I [music] [music] hallelujah.
Lord, [music] [music] hey.
Hey, [music] [screaming] hey, hey, hey.
Hey, [music] [music] >> Ladies and gentlemen, big round of applause. Okay, dancers, make your way over here.
And of course, we're going to call on the junior women's bucks if you start making your way out to the dance area.
Of course, our judges. We're going to call on the contest here pretty quick.
Keep things moving along.
And of course, we invite all you good people out to Samson August 7th, 8th, and 9th. We're going to have a good time up there in Samson.
All right, we got the high. And we're ready to go. Creederation, take it away.
[music] [music] >> [music] >> I say every day I [music] [singing] [music] sh I I [music] am I am [music] [music] [music] running [music] I say [music] Hey, [music] son of God.
[music] [singing] [music] I am [music] [music] you [music] are saved.
I say [music] hey [singing] [music] every day [music] I >> [music] >> Hey, I am [crying] [music] >> [music] >> I [music] shall.
[music] >> [music] >> Oh yes.
>> Water people quickly go out there. That was song number one. Junior women's buckskin stand by Baby Flats for song number two.
Whoa. Almost had a whistle. Almost. We need a truck to move. CCK6054.
It's a Ram truck. if you could please move your vehicle.
And uh Okay, we got that sound. We're ready to go. Contest Baby Flats, take it away.
[cheering] [screaming] Where are you? Where are we where are we?
Where are we? Where are we?
Where are [cheering] you?
>> [music] >> I [music] am where [screaming] are you? Hey, [music] [music] where are you? Where are you? [music] Where are you? Where are [music] we?
Where are you? Where are you? Where are you? Whoa.
[music] Where are you?
Where are we?
Where are [cheering] we?
[music] >> [music] >> Round of applause, ladies and gentlemen.
Tashk, if you hear from the sound of my voice, if you'd come over, Tashk Robinson. All right, we're going to call on the junior men's grass, if you could make your way out to the dance area.
We're going with two groups, so you guys get out there as quickly as you can.
Uncle Josh up here all day selling, not selling, giving out bags for all the young people that uh pick up trash. The young people in total picked up 62 bags of trash. Let's give those young people big round of applause. They all made $5 each. So, lots and lots of treaty money was given out tonight.
came from.
>> Yeah, it all came from this uh northern section of the tribe. I'm not mentioning it.
[laughter] >> Came from the Moses Lake side.
[laughter] All right, once again, one stay out there. Two, step to the side. Song number one, Sage Hills Blackfoot A1 Club.
And again, once we get the high sign, we're gonna kick things off here. Ladies and gentlemen, how about a round of applause to our junior women's buckskin.
Awesome dancing. Thank you for coming to Ghana. We'll see you tomorrow.
All right, we got the high. We're ready to go. contest.
>> Sage Hills.
[music] [singing and music] High.
[music] [music] Hey, hey, hey.
[music] [singing] [music] They are always [music] Hey, they are they are [music] they are [singing] [music] Yeah.
[music] [singing] [music] >> Whoa. Song number one. Song number two.
Stand by. Blackfoot A1 Club.
Group number two, stand by. We're going to be going a few right away. So, don't go too far.
Stay close by.
Of course, we still have a few categories to go. All right, we got the high. We're ready to go. Blackfoot A1 Club, take it away.
Hey, I am high.
I am yeah [screaming] higher am High [music] Fire.
I am Hey, [laughter] [music] higher higher higher higher.
Oh yes. Put your hands together, ladies and gentlemen.
>> Now put your hands together.
>> That was the oldest trick in Sixaga, and I still fell for it.
We're going to go with group number two.
Make your way out to the dance area.
Back road bandits turning robe song number two.
So again, we have to wait for this set of judges. The uh annual biki pow is going to take place August 14th, 15th, and 16th. Their annual celebration. They invite all you good people out. as well.
There's a midweek pow August 19th and 20th in Lebridge during hoopup days.
Some of you have never been there. It's pretty cool. There's the midway, there's a professional rodeo, there's Indian relay, the pow. So, it's pretty cool during the week.
And uh we start about 1:00, we're done about 6:00 every evening. We just run right through the contest during that pow.
So again, group number two should be on the dance floor. We got the highan.
We're ready to go. Contest Back Road Bandits.
>> [music] >> Hey hey hey hey hey hey hey [music] hey hey [music] hey hey >> [screaming] >> Hey, hey, hey.
High [cheering] [screaming] hey.
[music] >> [music] >> Hey, let [music] me Hey hey hey [screaming] [music] [music] [screaming] Hey, hey, hey.
>> Just wait. I was giving it about 5 seconds this time. Chicken [laughter] just to be safe.
Awesome song. Water people go out there.
So just a reminder to our campers here, whenever the pow ends tonight, 1 hour after that's when our cur curfew is going to start. So that means the you got to go straight to bed.
Yeah. All right, we got the ice on.
We're ready to go. Contest turn. Take it away.
I am down here.
>> [screaming] >> Hey, down [screaming] down.
[music] [screaming] Oh, I [screaming] down.
[music] >> [crying] >> Way down. [music] Hail down.
chicken. I'm catching on. I'm giving them about 5 seconds, then I'll say round of applause.
Ladies and gentlemen, let's give our men's grass a big round of applause. All right, we should have our um junior women's contempt jingle. You should be making your way out to the dance area. Group song number one, Nakota Nation. Song number two, Rocky Boy Agency. We need a vehicle to move.
License plate CXF 0098. If you could move your vehicle again, CXF00098.
All right, we got the high sign. We're ready to go. Contest Nakota Nation.
>> [music] >> higher.
[music] Higher [music] high.
High [music and singing] I am [music] [screaming] higher.
Way [music] higher.
I am I am [music] I Oh my [music] god. [music] [music] >> [music] [screaming] >> Hey, I am high. [music] >> [music] >> Oh yeah. Song number one. Water people quickly go out there. We're going to go with song number two here pretty quick.
And then as well, Junior Men's Contemporary Chicken, stand by. We're going to be going with you for your contest here. Saturday Night Live. It's always awesome.
Saturday Night Live at any pow. It's always a good time. All right, we got the house on. We're ready to go. Contest Rocky Boy Agency. Take it away.
[music] They are [music] [music] Yeah. [music] [music] Highle. [music] [music] [singing] >> [music] >> Hallelujah.
[music] [music] Higher.
>> [music] >> Hallelujah.
[music] We are [music] >> [music] >> Put your hands together, ladies and gentlemen. Beautiful song. Thank you, Rocky Boy Agency. All right, we're going to call on our junior men's contemporary chicken. Start making your way out to the dance area. Blackfoot Confederacy, stand by for song number one. Northern Cre, stand by for song number two. Of course, we want to remind you guys about the grand entry tomorrow. Anyone, if you have ever uh received a headdress, you have it. We're We want you to join in.
All right, we got the high. We're ready to go. B F C, take it away.
Hey, [screaming] high.
[music] Yeah.
High.
[music] [music] Yeah. Hey, [music] [music] I am [music] [music] [music] hell.
Hey, [music] [music] higher.
[screaming] >> [music] >> Oh yes, song number one. Water people quickly go out there and then of course uh we're going to keep things moving along here with our contest Saturday night. Man, all these chicken dancers been dancing uh quite a bit. all of our dancers. And it's awesome to see.
Of course, the uh the um the grand entry is going to be pretty cool tomorrow 1:00. Make sure you're all here. Check it out. It's awesome to see. We have our drum here. All right, we got the We're ready to go. Contest Northern Creed, take it away.
I am [music] [music] [music] I [music] I [screaming] [screaming] love [music] [music] I I [music] high.
[music] Yeah. [screaming] >> [cheering] [music] [music] >> Where are [music] you?
[music] Hey y [music] [screaming] [music] I I got me. Let's go right there. [music] [music] Should [laughter] we?
>> I was waiting for it. I was waiting for it. [laughter] Man, that was awesome. Wicked dancing.
All you brought your aame here to the Ghana Pawa celebration junior women's old style jingle. You should be on the dance floor. We're going to go with you for your contest.
Old style jingle.
And of course, uh we're going to go with Wild Rose and Black Lodge. We're going with two groups. So, uh we're going to quickly count them out. So, dancers, quickly get out there as quickly as possible. And of course, we have a lot of lost items out here. There's a lot of items up here. Uh the box is up here at the announcer stand. There's even a wallet, but if you could let us know what it looks like. And then and two phones and a pair of glasses and a scooter. There's a scooter up here. And there's some teeth. Someone lost their teeth. So, come back and claim that. [laughter] It's too much. All right, we got the high sign. We're ready to go. Wild Rose, take it away.
[music] [music] Yeah.
[music and singing] [music] I might [music] [music] [music] [music] way. [music] I way.
[music] [music] Yeah.
Way.
[music] [music] >> [singing] [music] [music] >> Song number one. Round of applause.
Song number one. Group number one. Black Lodge, stand by. We're going to go with you for song number two here.
>> Yeah. Start looking for your kids now.
We're getting close to end of the pow.
>> All right, we got the on. We're ready to go. Black Lodge, take it away.
Where are you? Where are you? [music] [music] High [music] [singing] [music] [music and singing] I Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
>> [music] >> Where are we? Where are we?
[music] [music] We are all [music] [music] I I [music] may be >> [music] >> I [music] high [music] I might Oh hey [music] I I [singing] I am [music] all [music] [music] I [music] are we are I I >> [music] >> I got [music] way I [music] go Beautiful [music] song number two. Come over here. Group number two, if you could make your way out to the dance area. Group number two.
Just a reminder, we're going to have the uh Indian auction at 1:00. Josh, what are some items you're going to be bringing tomorrow?
>> I got a drumstick. He's got a drumstick.
>> Might have some bead work. Some skirts that he just finished making some duct tape.
>> 12:00. Yeah, that was uh Pacific time.
[laughter] socks >> is we're going to auction off Josh uh his socks from yesterday from Friday Night Live auction at 12:00 Pacific time or 5:00 somewhere.
No, 12:00. All right, we got the high.
We're ready to go. Song number one, singing spirit, take it away.
>> [music] >> Hey, hey, hey.
[music] Hey, hey, hey.
[music] >> [music] >> Hey hey hey.
[music] [music] Hey, hey, [music] hey.
[music] Hey, hey, hey. [music] [music] Hey, hey, [music] hey.
[music] Hey hey hey [music] >> beautiful. Thank you. That was uh group number two.
Song number one.
>> All right, Indian Hill, stand by. We're going to go with you for your song as soon as uh Rusty tells us. He gave us the high sound. We're ready to go.
Indian Hill, take it away.
[music] I got [music] [music] we are [music] [music] we Well, well, well.
[music] We are [music] I [music] [music] [music] We are [music] I [music] am [music] God. God.
I [music] don't [music] know.
Hey I [music] [music] love [music] >> Round of applause, ladies and gentlemen.
Indian Hill, awesome song. All right, we're going to call on our junior men's old style chicken. Start making your way out to the dance area.
I believe last night we had one group old style chicken, but start making your way out there. And then of course we still have our junior women's fancy and junior men's fancy. And then we'll be retiring the flags.
All right, we got the high. We're ready to go. The Descendants, take it away.
[music] Yeah.
[music and singing] Yeah.
[music] [singing] Yeah.
>> [music] >> Way [music] [singing and music] higher.
>> [music] >> High [music] way [music] I Hallelujah.
[screaming] Hallelujah.
[music] >> [music] >> Wait for it. Wait for it.
Round of applause, ladies and gentlemen.
All right. Stand by Little Rock. Song number two. Stand by Little Rock. Oh, Grandpa's here, Josh. Grandpa's here. He's looking over.
He knew we were talking about him. All right, we got the high. We're ready to go. Little Rock, take it away.
[crying] I high [music] [music] [music] I am [singing] high. High [music] [singing] [music] High [singing] [music] [music] I high I am high I I High I [music] [singing] high high high high high high high high high high high high high high high high high high high high I High [music] [singing] I high [music] up high High [music] [singing] high. [music] [music and singing] >> Round of applause, ladies and gentlemen.
Come over here. Come line up. We're going to call on our junior women's fancy to start making your way out to the dancer. We're going with two groups.
So, junior women's fans to get out there as quickly as you possibly can. And uh we'll be going with the two groups. Song number one, Sagoka.
Song number two, we chose dancers. Uh kind of stepped back a bit.
So again, uh, group one, stay out there if you're a number one. Number two, step to the side.
We're almost there. Rusty's pretty quick now. He's running.
>> I didn't see Theren run all weekend.
[laughter] >> All right, we got the eyes on. We're ready to go.
Take it away. [music] [crying] [music] by black. [music] I get [music] I get [music] I get [music] quiet. [music] I can't go. Yeah.
[music] So I run [music] I Ladies and gentlemen, round of applause.
That was song number one.
We chosani. We're going to go with you for song number two here just in a few seconds. These are the athletes of Pawa.
They don't smoke.
They don't eat Indian tacos.
>> All right, we got the high side. We're ready to go. We chose Anie. Take it away.
[screaming] Hey God.
Hey God.
Hey >> [screaming] >> Hey, hey, hey.
Hey God, Hey hey hey God. Amen.
>> [screaming] >> Hey, hey, hey God.
Oh, that's a round of applause. That was group number one.
Song number two. Come over here. Come line up. Creek Confederation, stand by.
You're going to be singing for group number two. song number one. So, group number two, you should be making your way out to the dance area and then we'll come back to uh Koad for the men's fancy.
So, group two, you should all be out there. Creek Confederation song number one, Baby Flat song number two. So, that's the order that we're going.
So, tomorrow, we just want to remind people tomorrow the for the uh for the grand entry, the uh uh war bonnet, straight up headdresses, whistles, feather belts, big drums, split horn, and uh the the whistles. So, if you have any of those, please join us for tomorrow's grand entry at 1:00.
We're just waiting on a couple of our judges, but it's been an awesome uh day today, Saturday, and uh lots of competition happening, specials, but we got the high. We're ready to go.
Creederation, take it away.
>> [music] >> Hey, [music] [music] fire. [music] >> [music] >> God, they are [music] high.
Higher.
[music] [music] [music] We are [music] Hey, [music] are we [music] Hey, [music] [music] [music] [singing] do what do you say, ladies and gentlemen? Big round of applause.
Awesome dancing. Baby Flats, stand by for song number two here for our junior women's fancy.
Of course, we have uh some specials happening. Teen boys chicken, junior boys traditional, teen boys chicken, our leadership uh giveaway that's happening as well. We're going to be honoring the ladies straight up at that time, too.
All right, we got the high signs. We're ready to go. Baby Flats, take it away.
Well, [music] well, [music] I will.
[music] [music] Okay. Well, [cheering] well, well, [music] Well, hey well.
[screaming] >> [music] >> Oh yes. Big round of applause.
Rocking song Baby Flat Sage Hills song number one. And if we could get our junior men's fancy, you can start making your way out to the dance area. Kad song number two.
And then we're going to call on Blackfoot A1 Club to uh retire the flags for us. So, we're getting pretty close here to the end on our schedule. It's at 12:40. We're going to end. We're just a few minutes after that. So, considering everything that happened today, that's not too bad.
All of our men's fancy should be on the dance floor.
Once again, once we get to high, we're going to kick things off. And of course, take your chairs and of if you have any garbage, don't just look down at it. Uh, pick it up.
All right, we got the hat on. We're ready to go. contest. Sage Hills, take it away.
Hey, hey, [music] hey.
[music and singing] Hey, hey, hey.
[music] [singing] Hey, [music] hey, hey, hey, hey.
[music] [singing] [music] I [music] [music and singing] hey hey [music] I I hey hey hey [music] [singing] I high I high I high I high I high I high I high I high I high I high oh >> [music] >> Yeah. Yeah.
[music] [music] [music] >> Wicked.
Round of applause. That was song number one.
Goad, stand by for song number two. If we get our mic man over here.
>> Tashk was sleeping all day. He finally came out.
So, we're going to go with one more song and then we're going to retire the flags for this awesome session today.
All right, we got the high sign. We're ready to go. Contest goes.
[music] [music] [screaming] [music] Ladies and gentlemen, let's help them out. Make some noise.
[music] Hey, man. Make some noise. Kenny and the boys. Kosad, we apologize for skipping you guys, but uh we wouldn't want you guys to come here and not sing for men's fancy.
Thank you guys. That was awesome.
>> As well, we need uh these guys.
>> Okay, we need the following individuals to uh if we could get our flag bearsers to come help us out. But um as well we need uh for tomorrow's afternoon session you're going to be helping us out with the judging the dance judging Levi Nez Arie McDonald Benson. Who's that?
>> He must be a doctor.
Tracy Benson, Christy Deuce, and Rod First Strike. you're going to be helping us out with uh the judging tomorrow.
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