For full detail (location, contacts, event detail, event web site, etc.), click the link at the end of the listings to go to powwow & rendezvous event pages on the Crazy Crow website.

Need to add an event? It's easy to do online at Crazy Crow. Submit your event early enough, and you'll be searchable in Google ® & other search engines as a result (2-3 month lead-time required).

Powwow Listings
Nov 1-3: Fall Gathering at Manataka, Hot Springs National Park, AR
Nov 2: NIU Gatherings Traditional Powwow, Dekalb, IL
Nov 1-3: 16th Annual American Indian Association Orlando Powwow, Orlando, FL
Nov 2: 2002 Austin Pow-Wow, Austin, TX
Nov 7-10: 3rd Annual Stone Moutain Pow Wow & Indian Festival, Stone Mountain, GA
Nov 8: Awi Akta District Veterans Pow Wow, Topeka, KS
Nov 9: Native American Workshop, Shipshewana, IN
Nov 9-10: Veteran's Pow Wow, Wichita, KS
Nov 10-11: Comanche Indian Veterans Association Annual Dance, Apache , Comanche Community Center
Nov 11: Victory Club Veteran's Day Dance, Carnegie, Red Buffalo Hall
Nov 11: Pawnee Veterans Day Dance, Pawnee Nation Reserve
Nov 14-17: Tullahoma Intertribal Powwow, Tullahoma, TN
Nov 15-17: Native American Pow-Wow Commemorating the Memory of Ruby Tiger Osceola, Cottondale, FL
Nov 15-17: American Indian Center of Chicago's 49th Annual Chicago Powwow, Northeastern Illinois Univ
Nov 15-17: Gread American Indian Exposition, Richmond, VA
Nov 16: 2002 Northwest Inter-Tribal Gathering & Elder's Dinner, Eureka, CA
Nov 16: 3rd Annual Honoring the Veteran Pow Wow, San Antonio, TX
Nov 22-24: AICSC 5th Annual Native American Cultural Festival & Intertribal Pow Wow, Columbia, SC
Dec 6-8: 6th Annual Winter Gathering PowWow, Coachella, CA
Dec 15: Powwow Photograph Exhibit, Norman, OK
Dec 20-22: Honoring our Elders Contest Powwow, Prairie Island Dakota Community, MN
Dec 31: New Year's Eve Hand Game & Ghost Dance, Pawnee Nation Reserve
Dec 31: Good Medicine Society's New Year's Eve Dance, Oklahoma City Fairgrounds

Rendezvous Listings
Nov 2-3: Kill-um-buck Longrifles Fall Rendezvous, Killbuck OH
Nov 7-10: 19th Annual Yolla Bolly Rendezvous, Red Bluff, CA
Nov 7-11: Dripping Springs Rendezvous, Okmulgee, OK
Nov 15-17: Three Rivers Rendezvous, Peru, KS
Dec 7: Christmas Candelight Tour-Caesar's Creek Pioneer Village, Waynesville, OH
Dec 7-8: Mountain Man & Indian Craft Trade Show, Hillsboro OR
Dec 14-15: Shenandoah Longrifles' Christmas/Winter Rendezvous, Middletown, VA

Events: Powwows & Rendezvous complete detail & links

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New items include:
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• 3 File Forged Knives
• Buffalo Rawhide Knife Sheaths
• Rawhide Video
• 2003 Powwow Calendar

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• 3-Band Broadcloth
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• Suede Leather Lace
• Transparent Crow Beads
• Porky Roach Kits
• Imported Lazy Stitch Browband
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• Leather Pouches & Bags
• Gourd Canteens & Jugs
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Whether it's a Pendleton Robe, Rocky Mountain Point Blanket, Hudson's Bay Blanket, or any other wool blanket, they're very attractive - but they ain't cheap! Now that you have it, do you know how to clean, care, store it so that it stays in top condition for years? This page on our Crazy Crow website will give you some important tips...

Care Instructioins for Your Wool Blanket

Beginning any craft project, especially if it is your first time working on a particular item, requires some patience - and a plan.

* Is your craftwork representative of contemporary design, or do you have a particular 'period' in mind?
* Will your project reflect some general 'Native American' look, or is there a specific tribal design to be achieved?
* Do you have instructions on the materials needed and assembly techniques required?

The purpose of Crazy Crow Trading Post's Craft Focus pages is to provide a starting point in your research, to save you time and improve your chances of finding the information and materials you need to do it right the first time.

November Craft Theme: Dance Shawls
Almost all ladies' outfits require a shawl. How you wear it, use it, and how you decorate it will depend on the tribal or dance style for which it is intended.

This is our third eNews edition, and our second Craft Focus page. Our plan is to grow an online archive of information that will continue to expand, even on past issues, as more resources are made available on the Web.

We Report, You Decide . . .
. . . as a popular cable new channel likes to say. The first section of these Craft Focus pages will be online links and resources. These are not stale, broken links, but the result of intense, current searches. That doesn't mean we found everything that is relevant, but we sure tried! In many cases, we deliver you to websites that may point you to one of our competitors. In other cases, we will send you to a site that recommends a competitor (usually because, heaven forbid, they don't know about us). Our point is to give you the best information we can so that when all is said and done, you can decide what you need and where to get it.

This is a new and evolving process, and your comments, corrections and contributions are welcomed. Do you have some great craft tips to pass along, digital photos to share, an online resource we've missed? If so please email them to us at: craftfocus@crazycrow.com.

Craft Focus: Dance Shawl Web Page

"You always want to have a shawl ready", Florian Griggs says, as she carefully folds one of her many shawls. "In case you want to dance out in the arena or are called to receive a gift. Wearing a shawl honors the dance, singers and the drum". Florian is of Cherokee descent, and her family is very involved with powwows. She is past President of the Bartlesville Indian Women's Club and is the master of ceremonies at thier spectacular Native American style shows. Besides making many of her shawls, Florian has a sharp eye for shawls at second-hand shops. "Often with a good dry cleaning and some new fringe, these older shawls can look beautiful out in the dance circle", she says.

Nancy Bowman Cahwee is a Navajo designer with a B.F.A. in design from the University of Kansas. Her first love is pottery, but she's also done traditional Navajo loom weaving, silver smithing, finger weaving, and ribbonwork applique. As friends noticed her work, they asked Nancy to make dance regalia, including beadwork and ribbonwork strips. Her advice to anyone working on a design or craft project is to "Try to see it in your mind's eye first". Nancy says she likes to experiment with a design before she begins a project. "It's important to play around with the design", she says. When she was eight, her mother and grandmother taught her to make little bags and purses. "They used to let me bead with their scraps". To learn to bead lanes, "they'd make marks on there I could follow". By the age of 15, she was making moccasins on her own and hasn't stopped since. Even while working full-time as a nurse for BIA for 18 years, she kept creating. "At night, after my work was done, I'd drag my beadwork out. I enjoy it."

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A woman's dance shawl is essential for entering the dance arena. With basic sewing skills and our new video you can make beautiful shawls for yourself, family and friends. "How to Make a Native American Dance Shawl" helps you select materials, cut and sew your shawl and add fringe.

The tape includes a wealth of ideas for adding decoration, including a simple ribbonwork strip. You'll learn knotting techniques from our larger than life models. Treasured family heirloom and contemporary shawls are shown to inspire your creativity. You'll also see the correct way to wear a shawl, how to care for and store it, so it will be ready for the next dance.

This video comes with printed instructions and supply list. For young people and adults ages 12 and up.

Item 4080-002-035 VHS Format $19.95

Other Videos available at Crazy Crow (Crazy Crow Online Catalog at Google)

Much has been written regarding the importance of Morning Star Quilts to various Plains Tribes. These beautiful quilts are tied directly to some Tribes' mythology and Star Knowledge, and are used in many sacred ceremonies. They also take center stage in births, weddings, and funerals, making the Star Quilt important throughout life.

Diane is of Creek/Arapaho/Cheyenne heritage and has been designing and sewing quilts since 1988. Her Morning Star Quilts are especially coveted, and they are her specialty.

This is a very nice website, easy to navigate, and with very attractive photos of quilts. There are over 20 different quilts featured in the photo galleries. Whether you are looking for someone to make your quilt, or just looking for ideas and information with which to make your own, you'll enjoy this website. Related information is provided to increase your knowledge of the differences in Star Quilts:

•  The Four Quilting Techniques
•  A Quality Star Quilt-Knowing What to Look For
•  Caring for Your Star Quilt

Diane's Native American Star Quilts

Deerhide to Rawhide Video
This video offers a step-by-step guide to making deer rawhide. From its teachings, you will achieve the best possible rawhide for your drumheads, shields, moccasin soles, western gear, & much more.
Running time: 60 min. 4080-008-001 ... $19.95

2003 Powwow Calendar
This directory of Native American gatherings in the USA & Canada is the definitive guide to powwows, dance shows, craft fairs, rodeos, canoe races, festivals, art shows, stickball tournaments & other cultural events. Over 500 listings! Each entry is indexed by state and includes date, location and contact phone number. Soft cover.
Available in December 4106-030-081 ... $9.95

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Our entire full-color 104-page catalog of American Indian & Mountain Man crafts, craft supplies and craft kits has been updated, both in print, and online at Google Catalogs.

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