Manito Ahbee International Competition Pow Wow, November 8 & 9

[ojibwaywmn]

MTS Centre, Downtown Winnipeg, Manitoba

*THIS YEAR WE ARE DEDICATING THE POW WOW TOWARDS THE YOUTH. IT IS THE REASON WHY THE PRIZE MONEY WAS INCREASED FOR THEM, SPECIALS, AND EXTRAS PLANNED. IN ORDER TO FIT IT ALL INTO THE SCHEDULE AND BE DONE AT A CERTAIN TIME, WE HAD TO CUT DOWN THE ADULT CATEGORY INTO ONE RATHER THAN TWO LIKE FIRST ADVERTISED & LAST YEAR'S FORMAT.*

Grand Entries:
November 8 - Noon & 7 PM
November 9 - Noon only

Daily Admission: $12.00
Children 5 years & Under: Free

Free Registration for Dancers & Singers
2nd Level, MTS Centre (by the escalator)
Registration Times:
Friday, November 7, 10 AM to 7 PM
Saturday, November 8, 9 AM to 1 PM (after 1st Grand Entry)
Pre-registration is available. You must pick up your contest number before closing. We cannot issue numbers afterward.

Specials:
Teen Boys & Girls All Around
Teen Girls Old Style Jingle
Junior & Teen Boys Combined Prairie Chicken Dance
Junior & Teen Boys Combined Fancy Bustle
Adult & Golden Age Men's Combined War Bonnet
Adult Men's Traditional
Adult Men's Grass Dance

Categories:
Tiny Tots - Paid Daily, must be in regalia

Juniors (6 - 12 yrs) Boys & Girls
Traditional, Grass, Jingle, Fancy Bustle, Fancy Shawl, Prairie Chicken
1st $500, 2nd $400, 3rd $300, 4th $200, 5th $100, 6th $50

Teens (13 - 17 yrs) Boys & Girls
Traditional, Grass, Jingle, Fancy Bustle, Fancy Shawl, Prairie Chicken
1st $700, 2nd $500, 3rd $300, 4th $200, 5th $100, 6th $50

Adults (18 - 54 yrs) Men's & Women's
Traditional, Grass, Jingle, Fancy Bustle, Fancy Shawl, Prairie Chicken
1st $1200, 2nd $1,000, 3rd $800, 4th $500, 5th $300, 6th $100

Golden Age (55 yrs+) Men's & Women's
Traditional, Grass, Jingle
1st $1200, 2nd $1,000, 3rd $800, 4th $500, 5th $300, 6th $100

Singing Contests:
Contemporary Category
1st $7,000, 2nd $5,000, 3rd $3,000, 4th $2,000, 5th $1,500, 6th $800
Traditional Category:
1st $7,000, 2nd $5,000, 3rd $3,000, 4th $2,000, 5th $1,500, 6th $800
No Hand Drum Contest

*The first 300 Junior & Teen dancers that participate in the Opening Sequence of the Aboriginal Peoples Choice Music Awards, Friday, November 7th, receives a free set (Saturday & Sunday) tickets to the pow wow. You can pre-register online at www.manitoahbee.com, or go to the Registration Table on Friday, November 7 before Closing*

Saturday, November 8, 8 PM - 11 PM, Manito Ahbee Youth Dance takes place at The Exchange Restaurant (downstairs of MTS Centre). Free admission. DJ Music provided.

Miss Manito Ahbee Princess Pageant in Honour of Felicia Solomon
For Teen Girls (13 - 17 yrs old). Crowning takes place on Saturday, November 8, 2008. Please go to our website for application form and criteria. Forms will be accepted during regular Registration times at the MTS Centre.

*Powwows.com will be providing a Live Webcast*

[Side_steppin_sweetie]

4 more sleeps! lol Great host drums this year! it's sure to be rockin'

[injunboy]

cool ill be watching online.

i got a silver buffalo pin with manitoba on it from this pw... haha this week i been wearing it cause i cant be there.

alot of people ask about the pin!

[Campfire 2003]

Be look out for Lynx Clan Drum Group at the MTS this weekend and also The Aboriginal Peoples Choice Music Awards will be broadcast live on the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network and Bell Express Vu. look for on there too.

[native nation]

Be sure to check out the sounds of Southern Outlawz (One of the host drums this year)... All the way from the Navajo Nation. Them boys n girls can jam.

Can't wait to see all them youtube videos...."coughs"...I mean them videos posted on powwows.com's pow wow tv....lol

an oh...if anyone is cool with them MC's....if ya could print and hand a copy of the 2009 UNITY Pow Wow Flier to one of them to announce that would be cool....

Have fun everyone!

[~Sweety~]

damn i'm so freakin excited !! can't wait for saturday!

[ndnsooner]

Woohooo, its finally here. Music awards tonight.....

[Ann111]

My Mom e-mailed me about the Music Awards show tonight. You can watch them on-line. I found this link for the site: It looks really good.

http://www.aptn.ca/,

[chazziff]

well i still might wander over to this one ... since i have a four day wknd coming up that i didnt know i had until yesterday LOL

[ndnsooner]

Forecast

Nov 7 Today
Light snow this morning will give way to snow showers this afternoon. Temps nearly steady around 30/-1. Winds N at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of snow 70%. Snowfall around one inch.

Nov 7 Tonight
Intermittent snow showers, especially early. Low around 25/-4. Winds N at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of snow 50%. About one inch of snow expected.

Nov 8 Tomorrow
Scattered snow showers during the morning. Then partly to mostly cloudy for the afternoon. High 28/-2. Winds N at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of snow 30%.

Nov 8 Tomorrow night
Mostly cloudy skies early, then partly cloudy after midnight. Low 17/-8. Winds NNW at 5 to 10 mph.

Nov 9 Sunday
Partly cloudy. Highs around 25/-4 and around 9/-13.

[T. Jude Fox]

Geez, I wish I could go to this powwow, was planning on it, hmm, I guess I could leave now, hmmm....idk yet.

[ndnsooner]

Geez, I wish I could go to this powwow, was planning on it, hmm, I guess I could leave now, hmmm....idk yet.

better hurry, grand entry is tomorrow at noon. Drive rest of the day & all night. lol You'll need about 5 bottles of 5-Hour Energy.

[chazziff]

this was this am coming from the west toward Winnipeg ... wild horse on the way to the awards show and pow wow LOL

so would suggest taking it slow ...

[ndnsooner]

Well we are heded that way. drive safe every one....

[Ann111]

Well be careful when you drive. I'll worry about you if you get hurt. If you are coming from the Dakotas I heard they had a snowstorm.
You know we drove in snow all of the time. But here in VA they can't drive it. I grew up with snowstorms, driving my Dad, and going along the woods with snow loaded on them. Usually the snowplows would plow the highways we were on. Be careful.