Pow Wow

Pow Wow

Nami Nishida

 I’d like to talk about Pow Wow. On Saturday, I went to sparks to learn about Pow Wow. First, I saw they were so colorful and so fancy. Next, I noticed I was hearing hard drumming rhythm while they were dancing. Some people made rhythm for dancing people with a drum. They all drummed some rhythm and they did veru well. They used nice music instrument. Now, I was wondering about their costumes. How did they get them? Where can they buy that costumes? I decided to ask my question. I asked to man about their costumes. “ Where did you get your costume from?” I asked. Then, He laughed, smiled and answered my question. “ We don’t go to syop to buy those costumes. We made them by ourselves. These are all handmade.” I was surprise when I heard it, because I don’t think it’s easy to make these costumes. He invited me to dance with him. I tried to dance hard like them but I couldn’t do that. It was difficult more than I thought. In addition, they competed in dancing contest which was so amazing. They danced very well. Their dancing looked very similar, but they danced different each other. Finally, they were selling fancy hand made accessories,jewelty and small instraments. I was just looking but I really enjoyed it because those were just beautiful. It’s clear that Pow Wow is a great cultual event which Non Native American and Native American also me can get together to dance and have a good time with. I learned a lot by seeing dance with special costumes, hearing the rhythm and feeling Pow Wow. They were shouting some words while they were drumming and I don’t know what are they saying. However, I’m interested in that. Because they told a storu with drumming, interesting,huh? That’s all. Thank you.