A couple in Native American dress on a motorcycle
Women in Native American dress
A dancer in colorful Native American dress
Native American dancers in an arena
Dancers and drummers in an arena
A man dressing in a car
A group of young people laughing
A man holding a feather to his mouth
A young dancer in a crowd
Children on a truck watching a horse race
A young boy in Native American dress
A man dressed in colorful regalia
A woman in native dress with a feather staff
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Pow Wow ParadeA must-stop for the American Festivals Project in 2009 was the Oglala Lakota Nation Pow Wow, which takes place every year on the Pine Ridge Reservation outside Badlands National Park in South Dakota. Both ceremonial and competitive, the pow wow is a celebration of Native American culture and a stop for dancers and drum troupes traveling the pow wow circuit. Here, a young couple on a motorcycle gets a tow from a truck driving in the pow wow parade. Read more about the Oglala Lakota Nation Pow Wow on the American Festivals Project blog.
Photograph by Andrew Owen, American Festivals Project

Oglala Lakota Nation Pow Wow

See photos of the 2009 Oglala Lakota Nation Pow Wow in Pine Ridge, South Dakota, in this American Festivals travel photo gallery from National Geographic.

April 05, 2010

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