COMPETITION POW WOW
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SSIF and Social Distance Pow Wow Join Forces!
For 2020, The Summer Solstice Indigenous Festival is pleased to join forces with the Social Distance Pow Wow Facebook Group, a forum for the Pow Wow community comprising vendors, dancers and singers, all horribly affected by the COVID shutdown, to come together online and share their creator given talents while supporting one another.
Social Distance Pow Wow member participants upload videos of their respective dances for review and judging by their peers. Periodically these organized powwow contests include Grand Entries scheduled at specific times with live tagging by all encouraged!
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Summer Solstice Social Distance Powwow
2020 Contest Schedule
All Times are listed in EST
Please note:
Registration numbers are being updated throughout the day so if you don't see your number please check again at a later time.
6/19/20 - 6/21/20
All Times are listed in EST
Friday
June 19th
Voting Open Until 8pm Eastern
12pm-1pm
Hoop Dance Youth
1pm-2pm
Hoop Dance Adults
2pm-3pm
Singing Contest Womens
3pm-4pm
Singing Contest Mens
4pm-5pm
Singing Contest Group
Saturday
June 20th
Voting Open Until 8pm Eastern
10am-11am
Traditional Girls Youth 17
Traditional Women 18+
11am-12pm
Traditional Boys Youth 17
Traditional Men 18+
12pm-1pm
Jingle 17
Jingle 18+
1pm-2pm
Grass 17
Grass 18+
2pm-3pm
Fancy Shawl 17
Fancy Shawl 18+
3pm-4pm
Fancy Bustle 17
Fancy Bustle 18+
Sunday Finals
June 21st
Live Voting will be done via poll in the announcements and stay open for a half hour after each final live contest. The poll will be posted in the Social Distance Powwow Announcements.
10am-10:30 am
Traditional Girls Youth 17
10:30am-11am
Traditional Boys Youth 17
11am-11:30am
Jingle 17
11:30am-12pm
Grass 17
12pm-12:30pm
Fancy Shawl 17
12:30pm-1pm
Fancy Bustle 17
1pm-1:30pm
Traditional Women 18+
1:30pm-2pm
Traditional Men 18+
2pm-2:30pm
Jingle 18+
2:30pm-3pm
Grass 18+
3pm-3:30pm
Fancy Shawl 18+
3:30pm-4pm
Fancy Bustle 18+
4pm-4:30pm
Singing Contest Finals Women
4:30pm-5pm
Singing Contest Finals Men
5pm-5:30pm
Singing Contest Finals Group
5:30pm-6pm
Hoop Dance Youth Finals
6pm-6:30pm
Eastern Hoop Dance Adults
7pm
Announce Winners
2020 Virtual Festival
Dance Categories & Terminology
Men’s Traditional
This dancer wears a single eagle feather bustle. This traditional dancer symbolizes a warrior in battle, hunting, o gathering. They may hold dance sticks and decorated war clubs.
Women’s Traditional
This dancer has a long dress, mostly leather with intricate and extensive beadwork and long fringes. Their dance is slower and has a regal-like quality as they represent our Mother Earth and Grandmother Moon. They carry an eagle feather fan and folded shawl over their arm.
Men’s Grassdance
Long ago men would prepare the dance grounds by flattening the grassy area with a swinging kind of rhythmic style of dance. Their outfit has long fringes that emphasize their swaying style of dance.
Women’s Jingle
This style of dance is known as the healing dance. A medicine man had a vision of this dress adorned with many jingles as a way to heal a sick relative. This dress was made and the woman danced for the sick person and the person healed.
Men’s Fancy Bustle
This dancer wears two very colourful bustles on his back and has the fastest style. Competition represents an endurance feat, flashy eye-catching moves and the ability to stop on time to trick songs.
Women’s Fancy Shawl
Known as the butterfly dance, a legend exists of a young woman who lost her husband to war, fell into a spiral and curled up like a cocoon only to transform into a colourful butterfly. Her shawl is a big part of her outfit and has brilliant design colours. She displays rapid fancy footwork.
Grand Entry
A person of honour, usually a veteran, leads the dancers into the circle carrying our traditional eagle staff which represents the Indigenous Peoples flag. Next, the Canadian and American flags follow to represent all of the Indigenous people of Turtle Island (AKA North America). Everyone is asked to stand (unless you are not able) as a sign of respect for those who are being honoured and because it is the formal ceremonial part of opening a Pow Wow.
Pow wow Prizes
Youth Categories
ages 17 and under
Traditional - Male
1st – $500
2nd – $300
3rd – $200
Traditional - Female
1st – $500
2nd – $300
3rd – $200
Jingle
1st – $500
2nd – $300
3rd – $200
Grass
1st – $500
2nd – $300
3rd – $200
Fancy Shawl
1st – $500
2nd – $300
3rd – $200
Fancy Bustle
1st – $500
2nd – $300
3rd – $200
Adult Categories
ages 18 and up
Traditional - Male
1st – $500
2nd – $300
3rd – $200
Traditional - Female
1st – $500
2nd – $300
3rd – $200
Traditional - Female
1st – $500
2nd – $300
3rd – $200
Grass
1st – $500
2nd – $300
3rd – $200
Fancy Shawl
1st – $500
2nd – $300
3rd – $200
Fancy Bustle
1st – $500
2nd – $300
3rd – $200
Drum Categories
Mens
1st – $500
2nd – $300
3rd – $200
Womens
1st – $500
2nd – $300
3rd – $200
Couples & Families
1st – $500
2nd – $300
3rd – $200
Hoop Dance Specials
Adults
1st – $500
2nd – $300
3rd – $200
Child / youth
1st – $500
2nd – $300
3rd – $200
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