For a while there, a recommended ban on powwows, which was never formally adopted but was enforced anyway (ya follow?), prevented Native American festivals that can include drumming, dancing and selling native crafts. Something about an anticipated fracas between which of two speakers on American Indian Appreciation Day was an authentic Cherokee Indian, able to represent the Cherokee Nation. The event was canceled and the powwow dry spell began.
Wisdom Bear, aka Larry Mindler, has helped to get that changed. Now, anyone can hold a powwow at a state park, the state parks director says. So, anyone who has ever thought about hosting such a gathering, don't say we didn't inform you of your golden opportunity.
