Celebrate Indigenous culture through music, dance, and traditional crafts and cuisine at the 49th Annual Thunderbird American Indian Pow-wow. This spectacular six-day festival held from January 12 to 21 at Theater for the New City in the East Village features dances, stories and traditional music from Native Peoples of the Northeast, Southwest and Great Plains regions.
Highlights include storytelling by Matoaka Eagle (Santo Domingo/Chickahominy); a Hoop Dance set to guitar and flute music by Marie Ponce (Cherokee and Seminole), Michael Taylor (Choktaw) and Matt Cross (Kiowa); a Deer Dance (from the Yaqui Tribes of Southern Arizona) with Ciaran Tufford (Mayan/Cherokee) and Carlos Ponce (Mayan); and various ensemble dances.
Also, don't miss the vendors selling authentic crafts, artworks and jewelry in the theater lobby! All proceeds benefit the Native American scholarship fund.