Pow-wow in Morrison

In several of my previous posts I was talking about the different festivals over here like the Paddy's day parade, Cinco de Mayo, Oktoberfest and Rodeos just to name a few. A very nice tradition I saw today in Morrison just a few miles out of Denver... an Indian pow-wow which is more less the native American version of a carnival.

Interesting enough this is something like a dance and song singing contest where different native American families (and groups) are meeting up and fighting in different competitions; some of them with very funny names like the 'chicken dance' which has nothing to do with what we in Europe would connect with it (well, you remember the 80s 'chicken song' with its specific funny dance... something like the Macarena just more silly I guess)


But this tradition is great fun to see and listen to. All the different costumes and dances, the different songs and rhythms... and of course the different food! A very nice tradition to have in a such fast moving country like the US.