2019 Nez Perce Tamkaliks Celebration Powwow & Friendship Potluck
Join us for the 29th Annual Nez Perce Tamkaliks Celebration Powwow & Friendship Potluck on July 19-21, 2019 at the Tamkaliks Powwow Ground in Wallowa, Oregon. Tamkaliks Celebration Powwow is a three day celebration of traditional Native American culture – a place and time where local people can observe and learn about that culture and a bridge of friendship between the former and present inhabitants of the Wallowa County. For three days, experience traditional Native American songs, dances and spectacular traditional regalia. Outside the dance arena, dozens of concessionaires will sell food, Native American crafts and other items.
Nez Perce Tamkaliks Celebration Powwow & Friendship Potluck
Along the river, participants camp during the pow wow, many setting up teepees. The sight of teepees along the river after many years’ absence is wonderful. On the last day of the festival there is a friendship feast. The Native American community provides salmon, deer and elk, with locals bringing pot luck dishes. For the deer and elk, a group of Indians come early and exercise their treaty rights by hunting for the game for the feast. A local committee prepares the fish and game.
General Information
All Drums Welcome & Paid
Free camping
RVs & Tents Welcome
Concessions Welcome – Call office
Nez Perce Tamkaliks Celebration Powwow Mini-Gallery
Tamkaliks Celebration Powwow Event Schedule
Friday
7:00 p.m. Roll Call & Social Dancing
Master of Ceremonies: Thomas Morningowl & Fred Hill
Saturday
9:00 a.m. Horse Parade
1:00 p.m. Roll Call
7:00 p.m. Roll Call
Contest Dancing
Owl Dance Special ($1000 Prize Money)
Sunday
9:00 a.m. Washat Services
12:00 p.m. Friendship Feast
2:00 p.m. Roll Call
Championship Dancing
Location
Tamkaliks Powwow Ground
70956 Whiskey Creek Road
Wallowa, OR 97885
(541) 886-3101
For More Information: 541-886-3101 tamkaliks@gmail.com
About the Tamkaliks Celebration Powwow & Friendship Potluck
In 1990, Taz Conner, a descendant of Old Chief Joseph (Tuekakas), was invited by the City of Wallowa to help them plan some kind of Native American festival in Wallowa. It was decided that a friendship potluck and powwow would be the most appropriate event. Since that time, a group of ten to fifteen local volunteers have met, planned, and worked nearly year-round to conduct the event. During the powwow and potluck, about forty to fifty local people and ten to twelve Native Americans help in putting it on.
In its first year, 1990, the Celebration Powwow was held in the high school gym and the potluck on the school grounds with about fifty participants. By the third year it had to be moved to a five acre site and set up our powwow and feast outside because it had grown too large for the gym. In 1998 the Wallowa Band Nez Perce Pow Wow and Friendship Potluck was renamed Tamkaliks (from where you can see the mountains) and moved to the new Wallowa Band Nez Perce Trail Interpretive Center prospective site at the edge of the city of Wallowa.
Mark your calendar today so you don’t miss the next Nez Perce Tamkaliks Celebration Powwow & Friendship Potluck, always the third weekend in July at the Tamkaliks Powwow Ground in Wallowa, Oregon.
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