NVTV - Guest: Earl Naconie (Kiowa) - POW WOW Arena Director.
Channel: Native Voice TV
Date: 2013-10-24

Cihuapilli Rose Amador's Le Beau guest is Earl Neconie (Kiowa). The interview is about Earl's biography of how he became a POW WOW Arena Director. This Sunday November 3rd on Comcast Channel 15 at 7:00 P.M.

Earl is a singer; arena director; announcer and gourd dancer. He was a singer at the POW WOW's before he was asked to help out as an Arena director (He learned under the guidance of his 'Kiowa' uncle from Oklahoma).

His father was from Oklahoma and his mother from Kauai, Hawaii.  Earl was born on a San Diego military base and lived in two cultures within the United States, "Kiowa and Hawaiian". He has knowledge of his Kiowa tribe and understanding of Gourd Dancing which is the oldest styles of dancing dating over 1,000 years.

Earl knows of Kiowa songs, Gourd dancing and sign language.  He donates his time as a Pow Wow Arena director and fully understands his responsibilities very well. Outside of the Pow Wow arena he spends his time helping Native American youth to continue their education in the San Francisco and surrounding communities in California.