Definition, Betydelse & Synonymer | Engelska ordet POWWOW

Definition av POWWOW

1. indianskt möte eller råd
2. en indiansk shaman eller en ritual utförd av en sådan
3. en kort, privat konferens
4. (intransitivt) att hålla ett sådant möte

Exempel på hur man kan använda POWWOW i en mening

• A powwow (also pow wow or pow-wow) is a gathering with dances held by many Native American and First Nations communities.
• They are often the host southern drum at large powwows, including the 1996 Stanford University Powwow and the inaugural National Museum of the American Indian pow-wow in Washington, D.
• There they host their annual powwow on the second weekend in June on Dailey Store Road, ten miles (16 km) north of Mebane.
• To strengthen Virginia's borders, Alexander Spotswood convinced the colonial Board of Trade to approve the establishment of Fort Christanna between the Roanoke and Meherrin rivers, about thirty-two miles north of the present-day Haliwa-Saponi powwow grounds.
• The Shinnecock Powwow is ranked by USA Today as one of the ten great powwows held in the United States.
• Several Ktunaxa Elders (Marianne Michel, Leo Williams, Wilfred Jacobs, and Joe Skookum) were tape recorded at a powwow in 1981 at the Lower Kootenay Band at Creston British Columbia and stated that the song people are using in association with AIM and the Constitutional Express Constitution Express in 1980 which went from Vancouver to Ottawa is a Ktunaxa warrior song.
• Throughout the 1960s Jacobs and her father worked to re-introduce the pan-Indian powwow as a way to bring solidarity and recognition to the Tribes.
• As a teenager, he spent most summers on the pow-wow circuit with his cousin, during which time he learned the dances of both sides of his Apache background and explored his Native heritage through the Pan-Indian culture of the powwow.
• At a powwow in 1928 Perry was elected sachem of the Pocassets and swore in other leaders shortly afterwards including Lorenzo Hammond of the Mashpee.

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