The Great Lakes Indian Dance Regalia Project Collection
Men's Traditional Dancer Donnie Dowd. Michigan State
University American Indian Heritage Pow Wow, East Lansing, 1995.
Grass Dancer Dennis Shananaquet. Michigan
StateUniversity Ameican Indian Heritage Pow Wow, East Lansing, 1995
Fancy Shawl Dancer Melanie Matthews of Albuquerque,
New Mexico. 19th Annual Lansing Indian Contest Pow Wow, 1996.
Two Fancy Dancers. Sault Ste. Marie Tribal National
Assembly, 14th Annual Traditional Pow Wow and Spiritual Conference, 1996.
Jingle Dress Dancers with Briana Johnson of the Tuscarora
Nation of Ontario in the middle. Grand Entry, Morning Star Traditional
Pow Wow, Muskegon, 1996.
Staff of the Nokomis American
Indian Learning Center (Okemos, Michigan) and the Michigan State University
Museum coordinated a project, funded by Michigan Council for Arts and
Cultural Affairs, to document the work of contemporary American Indian
artists in the Great Lakes region whose artistry is closely tied to pow
wows. Artists with whom oral history interviews were conducted included
Tony Miron, Catherine Gibson, Jason George, Bedahbin Webkamigad, and Rochelle
Shano Whitepigeon and their work included regalia associated with the
Grass Dance, Fancy Shawl Dance, Men's Traditional Dance, Women's Traditional
Dance, Fancy Dance, and Jingle Dance. Regalia items, photographs, audio-recorded
interviews, and transcriptions of interviews are included in the collection.
Fieldworkers:
Cameron Wood, Marclay Crampton, Marsha MacDowell, Arnie Parish, Minnie
Wabanimkee.
Exhibitions:
"Contemporary Great Lakes Pow Wow Regalia: Nda Maamawigaami (Together
We Dance)," Nokomis Learning Center, Okemos, Michigan, January - November,
1997; Milwaukee Public Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, February - April,
1998; Kalamazoo Valley Museum, Kalamazoo, Michigan, January 30 - May 30,
1999; Nokomis Learning Center, Okemos, Michigan, September, 1999 - June,
2000.
Publications:
Marsha MacDowell, ed. "Nda
Maamawigaami (Together We Dance)": Contemporary Great Lakes Pow Wow Regalia.
East Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State University Museum in collaboration
with the Nokomis Learning Center, 1997.
--compiled by Marsha MacDowell, 2004.
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