Spokane Tribe's 100th Labor Day Powwow
The Spokane Tribe, celebrating the opening of their new Wardance Hall in Wellpinit, also celebrated 100 years of gathering on Labor Day with other tribes and visitors for a Labor Day celebration that includes traditional dancing, good food, stick games, and making new friends.
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Young princesses chat off to the side while elders make opening comments at the 100th Labor Day powwow at the Spokane Tribe’s Wardance Hall.
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Dancers crowd the floor of the Spokane Tribe’s Wardance Hall in Wellpinit Monday. The building was only recently completed and the tribe hopes to add air conditioning and heating to make the building useful year-round.
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Patricia Hill, 14, is Miss Spokane and represented the tribe at the 100th annual Labor Day powwow. Hill is going to be a freshman at Mead High School.
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Phillip Paul, who lives on the Flathead Reservation in Montana, says a few words before the start of the Monday afternoon session of the 100th annual Labor Day powwow. “We are all one people,” said Paul of the Salish tribes spread across the Inland Northwest.
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Dan Nanamkin of the Colville Confederated Tribes takes part in the Monday afternoon session of the 100th annual Labor Day powwow in Wellpinit Monday.
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Stick Game teammates sing and drum while the opposite team tries to get the location of a set of polished bones being concealed in the hands of the “hider” Monday at the Spokane Tribe’s powwow grounds in Wellpinit.
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