Just wondering...

You mean the chat program??  I didn't think it was in use any more?
 
David and I used that and World's Chat when we 'met' 10 years ago -- shoot, I planned my WEDDING on PowWow!

Powwow is still running?  Wow, that brings back memories.

It's not thru Tribal Voice -- but thru something else.  It's still a dos program, so you have to do some fooling around to use it, but these folks still are even maintaining "White Pages".  Now does that date MY online time or what?? LOL

Um, I was Media Director for the Midnight Sun Intertribal Powwow last year....but somehow you all seem to be talking about a program, instead of actual powwow.

As far as chat goes, I do iChat, Yahoo, MSN, AOL, ICQ and gmail chat. I can do all of them with one program: Adium. It's just for Mac, I think. Anyone want to send me their screen names, handles, ICQ numbers feel free to PM me.

PowWow the program was a chat program 'invented' by native Americans originally for their own use I think -- the company name was "Tribal Voice" -- they were among the first to do large group chat (to do meetings, etc. by phone/laptop) but they just didn't make it pay unfortunately.  It was a GREAT program that they sent out as freeware and many many of us loved it.  It was "before" ICQ and "instant messaging". 
 
I'm not sure what Anne meant ... that's what *I* was trying to find out *grin*.

Noooooooo...I mean do any of you go to powwows? []
 
Jeano, you were on the right track!

We used to go to Rendevous when we were kids.  That was a ton of fun, I don't remember what ones they were, but they were up near Buena Vista, CO
 
Do you?

Well I certainly can say YES, I do powwow!

Altho Native American is just about the only thing I'm 'not' -- Davey and I have been to several here in Orlando. 
 
We're backwards from most places because of the climate -- down here the Zellwood Corn Festival in mid-MAY is absolutely the *last* outdoor "thing to do" in the Central FL area in the spring and typically it is SO darned hot that weekend you're as big a weak-kneed puddle as the butter on the corn by mid-day.
 
But typically the first thing to occur in the fall (mid-late October) that is of a festival, "social thing to do" nature is the Central FL PowWow down at the fairgrounds. 
 
I love the cultural exchange, I LOVE to see the kids all dressed up and ALL ages participating in the dancing.  I've gotten some of the best books I have on herbs from the powwows.
 
Florida has such a sad history for indians because whites used it as a dumping ground (the Trail of Tears, and other such massive 'herding' of people from all points west and north).   Indian people were forced to come here to a climate so unlike what they were used to and so many just got sick and died.  There is only one tribe indiginous to Florida.  But I think it's wonderful how at the powwows everyone is welcomed.

Up until we moved to Ohio every year or so my family and I would visit Fort Verde Days in Camp Verde, AZ, where there was always a powwow.  Indian culture is so prolific in Arizona that us native Arizonans kind of take it for granted, though, so most of the time the powwows are for the tourists.

Gathering of Nations, largest powwow in the world in Albuquerque, New Mexico....lived there for 20 years. Need I say more?

I'm not native, but at Gathering of Nations people always asked if I was. Go figure, I have red hair... but then again, there are a bunch of NA Bruces around, too in the northern states and Canada, and my mother's maiden name was Bruce. Yah, there's probably an Indian in our woodpile. I enjoy Native culture quite a bit.

Alaskan Natives don't have powwows so much, except for the one I've been involved in up here. They have potlatches instead (huge potlucks with dancing, music, etc. ususally to honor someone). And there is always the World Eskimo-Indian Olympics aka WEIO. Fun stuff!http://www.weio.org

I'm not surprised you were asked, even with red hair.  I do have First Nations ancestry, but am blonde with blue eyes.  I have a friend who is 1/4 Lakota, but also blonde and blue-eyed after his German grandfather.  A lot of my friends who have similar background are not dark complected either.  If you are from the East, European contact came sooner, and it is more likely for someone in your family history to have "tripped over a tent pole", as a Penobscot elder I knew liked to say. 

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I'm not surprised you were asked, even with red hair. I do have First Nations ancestry, but am blonde with blue eyes. I have a friend who is 1/4 Lakota, but also blonde and blue-eyed after his German grandfather. A lot of my friends who have similar background are not dark complected either. If you are from the East, European contact came sooner, and it is more likely for someone in your family history to have "tripped over a tent pole", as a Penobscot elder I knew liked to say.

I like that, "tripped over a tent pole," LOL.

The powwow up here is for all the folks who are away from their tribes, because, as I said before, the Native folks here never got into powwow. It's funny though, because the Athabaskans here are basically the same folks as the Navajo back in NM and Arizona...sometimes I am walking down the street and meet someone who looks SO much like someone I knew in New Mexico!

Yep, there are a fair number of "blue-eyed Indians" here, as there is everywhere. I love powwow. It's one good time where everyone can get together. []

Not too much. However, my DH is Menominee. He is a pretty good shaman with his natural oil concoctions. His great, great, great grandmother was a true shaman.