What I didn’t like about our powwow was that it has become more of a competition than a showcase for our students in our program. The point of our powwows is to show off our student dancers and drummers, to announce our students who made the honor role, who were published, or who did something great in some way. Our dancers should be the Head Boy and Head Girl, and shadow dancers, our adults should be the Head Man and Head Woman. Instead the powwow committee, which I am a member of, decided on bringing in bigger name dancers from out of town who are not in our program. Why? For attention, for crowds, for money. This is suppose to be about our children. The students I voted for didn’t get any of the spots even though they are in our program, they help me with teaching craft classes, they are always around, and some of them even win in some competitions. We are not about becoming a huge, popular powwow, we are about our children.