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The contemporary Pow Wow is a link to the past that helps maintain Native American heritage. Seen by outsiders as entertainment due to the singing, dancing and colorful regalia, the Pow Wow is a spiritual legacy which should be treated with respect and honor. It is a time for Native American families to be together with other family members and friends. It is a time of sharing, of laughter and tears, of learning, and of caring. It is a time when Native Americans reflect on their traditions. It is a time to honor the past and celebrate the future.

The Southern Style or Straight Dancer is easily distinguished by the ottor skin drailer decorated with mirrors, beadwor, or ribbonwork which hangs down the back. These dancers also wear long sleeved shirts, breech cloth, and legging that are trimmed with ribbonwork. Bone hair pipe and bead bandoliers, fingerwoven yarn garters adn slide tabs, a choker of German silver or beads, a wide loomed beed belt, and a porcupine roach with a single eagle feather plus and eagle feather fan complete the Straight Dancer's regalia.

- taken from the ASU 21st Annual Powwow information sheet -

These boys were competing in the teen division (ages 12-17). I like the way the boys seem to be circling each other.

The image was cropped, brightened, contrast increased and sharpened.