Roy Bison and Regina Urban Pow Wow

[Slammer]

Who went to Regina Urban Pow Wow this past weekend?

I went and was witness to the most crappiest Grand Entry done by the most uncapable Arena Director, Roy Bison. I seen this guy before, he said once that he was a Northern Cheyenne, but at this pow wow up in Regina, he was Lakota!
Hah! In the Grand Entry he made the Women come in behind the flags, counter-clockwise, and the men came in clockwise on the outside. In Intertribals, the women danced clockwise in the middle and the men danced counter-clockwise on the outside. He, as arena director, even spoke on the mic and preached that "the elders wanted this way, how we 'remember' how it was done when we were kids......when you go to places like Pine Ridge, etc, etc>SD, that is how it is done."

Okay, if that is how it is "done", then why is it coming from this guy who only "remembers"? Shouldn't it be from someone that is gifted in this practice who is from those places they dance this way? I thought that there must be a reason why it is "done" that way at those certain places. Is this how the Omaha people do it, who have been dancing Pow Wow for hundreds, if not thousands of years?

This guy should just go home if he wants it done 'his way' and not go to other places to totally inflict and be so pushy about his way on others. It is not the Indian way to do such a thing. They don't tell Terry Fiddler not to dance counter-clockwise at other pow wows. Roy told the men who wanted to dance clockwise to dance counter clockwise. Talk about no respect.

[kiyaanii mom]

JEEH!

Scary!

[Wojapi4Me]

The only reason I'm replying to this thread is to clear up a few things since Pine Ridge was mentioned. I don't know Roy Bison, and don't really recognize that as a Lakota surname (sounds Cree to me), but I could be mistaken.

At all the wacipis I've gone to in South Dakota, I've never seen a grand entry like you described. Now, the intertribal structure was right on the money...women in the middle area dancing clock-wise and guys on the outside dancing counter-clockwise.

Now, keep in mind too that this isn't done at every pow wow in South Dakota. I've gone to many where men danced clockwise and that was the way it was done in that particular arena and everyone respected that. There are reasons for dancing counter-clockwise, and I won't go into those here, but just keep in mind that it isn't always that way.

[WhoMe]

Fair skinned,

Sometimes new/old traditions reemerge in modern powwows. Some powwows even try new things. Sometimes they go over big and become apart of the powwow circle. Sometimes they bomb and will never be seen again.

In either case, the free publicity that you have given to Roy "Crazy Horse" Bison and the Regina Urban powwow have attracted people's attention.

Roy is half Southern Cheyenne and half Hunkpapa Dakota.




Some dance arenas dance in a clockwise direction. Others counterclockwise. As Singerdad pointed out, some dance in both directions.

"When in Rome, you do it the Roman way."

[kiyaanii mom]

Maybe the committee brought him to the powwow, so he could run it in that way. Otherwise the committee should have picked a local AD, who would run the powwow the way the locals are use to.

I've seen Grand Entries in both directions, and with men leading, women leading and once tiny tots leading. But I have never seen one where the men go one way and the women go another.

I it probably wasn't cool to be telling people to go the opposite of the way they are use to going.

[WhoMe]

Maybe the committee brought him to the powwow, so he could run it in that way. Otherwise the committee should have picked a local AD, who would run the powwow the way the locals are use to..

Kiyaanii,

I think Roy and his family live in Regina.

(At least they did when I stayed with them) *L

[kiyaanii mom]

Kiyaanii,

I think Roy and his family live in Regina.

(At least they did when I stayed with them) *L

Well then that just make it more weird..... LOL

[kiyaanii mom]

Kiyaanii,

I think Roy and his family live in Regina.

(At least they did when I stayed with them) *L

Well then that just makes it more weird..... LOL

[WhoMe]

Well then that just makes it more weird..... LOL

Well then that just makes it more weird..... LOL

Is this "Canyon Echos?"

Is this "Canyon Echos?"




*L

*L

[Kakeeya]

Is this "Canyon Echos?"

Is this "Canyon Echos?"




*L

*L

[kiyaanii mom]

Is this "Canyon Echos?"

Is this "Canyon Echos?"




*L

*L

LOL! If you are standing where the picture in my avi is, then YUP!

[osage49er]

remember the AD is the boss

if that's how the AD wants it done then so be it, remember he is the one that is in charge. Gee sounds like the guy who posted this thread is a ROY BISON hater???? powwows are to celebrate life through singing and dancing, so what if grandentries are done a little different! we're there to dance, sing, visit, heal, blah, blah, blah.....

[WhoMe]

....Gee sounds like the guy who posted this thread is a ROY BISON hater???? .....

osage,

Naw.


FairSkinnedWarrior is an equal opportunity hater.


He doesn't discriminate.

[tokana_49]

An Arena Director is an Arena Directer is an Arena Directer....I have spoken...eh-eh!

[str8nakoda]

Roy Urban....

Have never been to any Canadian powwows... hope to someday go to one.... have heard nothing but good about all the bad a** drum groups that come from there... Bear Creek being the most notorious.. so far, that I heard of....
And as for the Arena Director, i think it should be up to how he wants to run the powwow. And keep in mind that it's the committee that picks them and usually they pick them for some reason......... just my perspective....