This week-long festival celebrates Indigenous cultures and features programming opportunities leading up to the Annual COTRAIC Powow each September. In addition, you'll find exhibits that highlight Indigenous history and knowledge, as well as books, multimedia, and special archives related to Indigenous narratives and culture.
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For more information, be sure to check the Pitt events calendars each summer, as well as the COTRAIC website below, for dates, times, and other festival information.
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A BIT ABOUT POW WOWS:
A pow wow is a form a celebration. A time that people can come together and talk and laugh and share our dancing and singing. There are Native American pow wows across the country and even in other parts of the world. If you would like to learn more about the pow wows here some helpful links:
- COTRAIC Annual Powwow Website
- A national site that tracks and educates people about pow wows
- YouTube channel on pow wows
- An article about pow wows that includes information on meaning, origins, and dancing
- An article about pow wow etiquette
- Pow wow FAQs
Using “pow wow” to refer generally to a social get-together or to a meeting for discussion is considered to be an offensive appropriation of a term of great cultural importance to Indigenous Americans. Here is an excellent piece explaining how the term pow wow and other phrases are offensive.