Smoke signals. (Grand Ronde, Or.) 19??-current, September 01, 2007, 2007 Grand Ronde Contest Pow-wow commemorative edition, Image 4

Smoke signals., September 01, 2007, 2007 Grand Ronde Contest Pow-wow commemorative edition, Page 4, Image 4

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Newspaper Page Text4 SEPTEMBER 1,2007 Smoke Signals ''! 1804 T -v '' W i 7 ;frr VI U;' V - J ! V I in' J hi r ; . . 4 f n ( 'nh.. f . , V M taw if V, 'r-.ii - i J ; Clockwise, from top left, Cody Merrill (Karuk) danced Saturday afternoon in the boys grass (6-1 2) competition, which he won and received $1 50; Roberta Queahpama (Shoshone-Bannock), No.1804, was a regal figure during the Saturday grand entry; Skye McMichael (Luiseno) competed in the fancy dance contest Friday during Grand Entry; Sean Dougherty (Kiowa) danced in the mens traditional category on Friday evening; and Grand Ronde Tribal member Marcel Allen Jr. participated in the boys grass (6 1 2) event on Saturday. The 2007 Grande Ronde Contest Pow-wow was held Aug. 17-19. wmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmimmmmmmmmmmmimmmmmmBm I) v'4 - 1- i , . o o Pow-wow Footage Posted Quickly OnYou(l! Site It didn't take long for footage of the 2007 Grand Ronde Contest Pow-wow to hit the Internet. The Pow-wow, held Aug. 17-19 on the pow wow arena west of the Governance Center, showed up on the popular video-sharing Web site YouTube on Aug. 20. Eskimodoc posted footage of drums Mountain Soul, Black Lodge and Blackstone performing. When checked last week, the videos had been viewed 57, 49 and 61 times, respectively. . "Mountain Soul rocked this pow-wow," wrote one viewer who signed his name as Coyote medicine2. According to his My Space profile, Eskimodoc lives in Salem and lists his occupation as a fry bread taster. His first name is Louis and he says he is part Modoc, Paiute and Yupik. "I love pow-wows," he writes on his MySpace page. "Also dancing at them. It is the place where I find my balance in this world. Don't really know how to describe it. All you dancers know what I'm talking about though. "One of these days I'll buy a light bulb and shed some light on the subject for the rest of ya'll." And thanks to Eskimodoc, the audience that witnessed all or part of this year's Grand Ronde Contest Pow-wow continues to grow. H