MARCH 1, 2004
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Chemawa Hosts 124th Birthday Pow-wow
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Swinger Hundreds of Natives, like the fancy shawl dancers above, showed up for Peaceful Announcers Dave BrownEagle (foreground) and Marcus
Chemawa Indian School's 1 24th Birthday Pow-wow, held on Saturday, February 2 1 . RedThunder kept the pow-wow moving along with jokes and humor.
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Keepsake Many Grand Ronde Tribal members attended the pow-wow, like Up Close In addition to traditional sincrina and dancincr. manv vendors had
Rose Starr, above, who videotaped the celebration. beautiful works of art on disrjlav at the now-wnw. like thes Hentalia npplrlarfis
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beautiful works of art on display at the pow-wow, like these dentalia necklaces.
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Drum Power Grand Ronde Drum group EagleBeak was one of about 1 0 drums at the pow-wow. EagleBeak was recording live at the pow-wow in order to put together
a demo disk to send to record companies. EagleBeak insiders say that the group may put out a CD locally in the near future.