print email comment close Indigenous Peoples' Day & the Pow-wow Highway: A History of the New Holiday & the Pow-wow Tradition URL: http://www.red-coral.net/Pow.html#Art Description: "Every year on the Saturday closest to the traditional date of the arrival of Columbus ... [the Indigenous Peoples' Day Committee] holds a pow-wow and Indian market, to celebrate the survival and revitalization of Indigenous cultures, and to commemorate Native resistance to the forces still threatening to destroy them." The site describes the annual event held in Berkeley, California. Author: Ketcheschawno, Millie; Curl, John Extra Keywords Columbus Day Library of Congress Subject Headings: Indigenous peoples -- Anniversaries Powwows -- California -- Berkeley Special days LII Database Information: Record 2332 created by Maria Brandt on 09/16/2003 Last modification on 09/17/2003 Published: 09/16/2003   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/2332