Hamilton, GA Powwow

[nativegal]

Well I hope thatyou are able to make it. If you do make it, come up and talk to me.

[lovlie1]

Man

I was just thinking about if I was going to try to make it to that one or not. Because I am so busy trying to get ready for the one the weekend after in Jacksonville, NC. The one in Loris is the Waccamaw one right?

If I can swing it I will sure try!

BTW my name is Wanda.

[nativegal]

We will be in Loris, SC on Halloween weekend as guest drum. Look foward to seeing you there. If you can make it, look for me. I have short, brown hair, and probably the only female that will be there with Edisto. Hope to meet Ya!

[lovlie1]

Oh, ok I saw a lot of S.C. tags and that was one of them. What is the next pow wow Edisto will be drumming at?

[nativegal]

No I have a maroon Monte Carlo that has a tag on the front with a pit bull and it says Tab's Chevy, we also had 2 other cars in our convoy, a silver Doge Neon SRT, and a dark blue GMC Yukon.

[lovlie1]

Hey Nativegal?

I think I might of seen you or at least your car. Is your car white and have a sticker of the Iroquois flag on it?

[nativegal]

Yeah I know they both blew this weekend. I was so proud of my boys, Edisto. They impressed me. But like Singerdad said that's what powwows.com is for. U live and learn, and man did I ever!!!

[lovlie1]

Really

Man I just knew that Iron Necklace or Edisto would place. Oh well suppose I don't have good taste.

[nativegal]

Drum Competition:
1st- Powwow Travelers
2nd- Eagle Watch ( I think this was their name)
3rd- Moonlight Travelers-(Ron Gibson,Osceloa Red Shirt,ect..)

[lovlie1]

Well

You are tight because i was only there for one day. i really did not dance much, I just sat and listened to the drum. I did not know that about the drum comp because I had left Sunday morning. But that sucks if they did that. So who did win the drum comp?

[Tom Iron Eagle]

Sad

What a sad event. The really sad thing is that there have been more and more dances similar to that one. Women judging the Men, Men judging the Women. And as always people winning that don't follow the procedures.

We seem to always find one or come across one like this more and more often. This is one of the reasons I attend less and less competition events. Even the ones that used to be great and the judging was great have greatly fallen.

Well, let's hope that your next event is great and helps make up for this loss in many ways.

[nativegal]

The judging was bad, like I have NEVER seen. They had men judging women categories, and women judging the men categories, then they only had one drum competition song, on Sunday at that after everyone was tired from singing their buns off saturday and partially horse, I only saw them have one round for the dancer category, even the adults!!! I dunno maybe it was me. They didnt feed the dancers or vendors, but they fed the boy scouts who were parking cars, from what one of the boy scouts told me. The registration was suppose to close by 12:00 and some of the drums that won in competiton registered after 12:00 like 12:30-1:00 is when they registered, they beat out drums that were registered in time and were singing stronger and was always at the drum, and even some of the dancers that won the same went for them. It was just all messed up.

[lovlie1]

Was anyone else poorly suckered to go to this terrible excuse for a powwow? I wish I knew more about this thing, or I would have never wasted my $, time, gas, or energy to go!!!

So what was it that made it bad for you?

[Singerdad]

A pow wow in Georgia sucked? I'm shocked! :)

Seriously though, sorry that you had a bad trip. It stinks to travel somewhere and the dance be poorly organized or not what you thought it would be.

This is where powwows.com does a great job. On here, we get to discuss dances and how they are run. Thanks for your report nativegal...now, others will think twice (or at least know the situation) before traveling to the dance you referenced.

[nativegal]

Was anyone else poorly suckered to go to this terrible excuse for a powwow? I wish I knew more about this thing, or I would have never wasted my $, time, gas, or energy to go!!!