Q&A with Native Pride Productions
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2024 Smithsonian Folklife Festival / Series 3: Audio
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content: 2024 June 29
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content: William Chimborazo (Presenter); Angelo Begay (chicken dancer, Navajo); Tia Alexis Roberts (Narragansett) Sit down with members of Native Pride Productions after their performance and learn more about their regalia, their communities, and why they dance.
The Native Pride Dancers bring the excitement and artistry of Native American poww dances to audiences around the world. An intertribal artistic and educational troupe, its members are citizens of many tribal nations including Chickasaw, Choctaw, Dakota, Meskwaki, Navajo, Ojibwe, and Pueblo. In performances and workshops, the Native Pride dancers demonstrate the innovative blending of traditional steps and contemporary expression that is a hallmark of powwow dance, and they share the meanings and cultural history of their vibrant traditions. Native Pride is directed by Larry Yazzie (Meskwaki), a world champion fancy dancer and noted cultural educator based in Jacksonville, Florida.