This paper examines the construction of a large intertribal contest powwow and an NCAA Division I basketball game. The Gathering of Nations Powwow is a large intertribal contest powwow (LICP) that attracts over 3,500 dancers who compete for prize money in front of more than 15,000 spectators. Powwows underwent significant transformations after indigenous peoples’ contact with European colonialists. Powwows are ceremonial gatherings of North America’s indigenous peoples that deliver ritual focus, solidarity, collective identity, cohesion, and cultural persistence through song, dance, and social interaction. Native Americans, powwows, spectacle, NCAA basketball, large intertribal contest powwows, gathering of nations powwow, Pan-Indianism, sport Abstract
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