Powwow flag oldest flag in our country

Once all the flags are up front the announcer says about the staff, “This is the oldest flag in America.” Some of the Indians are veterans, you’ll see there are different flags.

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The Indian flag, eagle feather staff enters first into the arena as part of the Grand Entry.

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Preparing to line up for Grand Entry

In these photographs, the Indians are preparing to line up. Others will line up behind the flag carriers. Once all of them are in the arena a prayer begins, then the event.

The photographs presented here are from the Lincoln Indian Powwow, August 11, 2018 in Lincoln, Nebraska. The tribes vary and some Indians come in from other areas. I do know there were Lakota, Poncha, and Omaha Indians at the event.

By the 1850s the Pawnee, Omaha, Oto-Missouri, Ponca, Lakota, and Cheyenne were the main Great Plains tribes living in the Nebraska Territory. source

The powwows here have the feel of a family reunion. There are booths set up selling goods including fry bread. The only Indian fry bread I’ve eaten is from the Pueblo in New Mexico. This bread here is much thicker, sort of like cornbread.

The drumming, singing, and dancing lifts you up. I can still hear it and see it while thinking of the powwow.

I am used to their songs and drumming because the local radio plays it on certain days and I listen.

Many of you know I do not watch television anymore so it is common for me to be listening to the local radio programs.

The announcer has a good time using their language, (no interpreter nearby for me) sometimes he speaks in the ancient tribal language only the Indians understand.

In English, he tells a story of talking to friends in other tribes. This story is about a friend teaching him a word from another tribe, and finding out later “it’s a woman’s word”. He used it and everyone laughed.

The arena is in a circle as is the dancing.
There is a tree in the center of the arena and the announcer high up in a booth is on one end and on the other end of the arena is an opening where the dancers enter. 4 big drums are set up one on each side representing the 4 directions, there is one large drum in the middle in front of the tree. This is my observation.

The large shady tree is in the middle of the arena, when the Indians enter they circle around from the left side to the right. We are in the middle my husband @nowian.man filming while I am photographing.

There is a post in @photobe link of a child dancer I took the weekend before while photographing another Powwow.

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