Odenong Powwow

18/06/2025

03/06/2025

Hello everyone!!! We're sorry for the delay but here are the winners from the 5th Annual Odenong Powwow dance competitions. The powwow committee and head staff offer our congratulations to all the winners and a thank you to everyone that chose to compete.

Adult Eastern Blanket
- 1st Place: Alana Helme

Adult Eastern War
- 1st Place: Justin Maddox
- 2nd Place: Devin Wixon
- 3rd Place: Keon Jackson

Adult Women's Traditional Combined
- 1st Place: Althnageebah Myles
- 2nd Place: Pikun Herney
- 3rd Place: Juliana Hunter

Adult Men's Traditional Combined
- 1st Place: Isaac Syliboy
- 2nd Place: Cody Rooney
- 3rd Place: Atsa Zah

Adult Fancy Shawl
- 1st Place: July Hunter
- 2nd Place: Madas Strickland
- 3rd Place: Nina Bailey

Adult Fancy Bustle
- First Place: Cheenulka Pocknett

Adult Jingle Dress
- 1st Place: Kendra Eaglestar
- 2nd Place: Takara Hansell
- 3rd Place: Kiana Lebeau

Adult Grass/Chicken Combined
- 1st Place: Jayden Mars
- 2nd Place: Jason Lamb

Golden Age Women All Styles Combined (prize money provided by Ron & Cheryl Welburn)
- 1st Place: Dinalyn Spears
- 2nd Place: Rita Gilman
- 3rd Place: Trish Keliinui

Golden Age Men All Styles Combined (prize money provided by Ron & Cheryle Welburn)
-1st Place: Joseph Guevara

Youth Girls' Eastern Traditional (prize money provided by Ohketeau Cultural Center
- 1st Place: Julia Hunter
- 2nd Place: Nadia Fernandes

Youth Boys' Eastern War (prize money provided by Ohketeau Cultural Center
- 1st Place: Roman Isam
- 2nd Place: William Hansell
- 3rd Place: Owen Fernandes

Youth Girls All Other Styles Combined
- 1st Place: Ceni Zamora
- 2nd Place: Misqua Strickland

Youth Boys All Other Styles Combined
- 1st Place: Thunder Perry
- 2nd Place: Mategwas Strickland
- 3rd Place: Ahanuw Helme

28/05/2025

Hello everyone!!! If you were able to attend the 5th Annual Odenong Powwow, we hope you had a good time.

If you have any pictures or videos you would like to include in our photo album, message us the photos and videos and we will post them to the album we're creating, giving you due photo/video credit.

Thank you so much for all your support!!!

27/05/2025

And that's a wrap for our 2025 Powwow! Thank you SO much to everyone who came out and volunteered, worked, vended, danced, drummed, purchased items, donated, spectated, & supported from afar. We are so grateful!

If you are passionate about seeing this Powwow continue and are interested in helping us make that happen, please consider a monthly recurring donation for our 2026 fundraising campaign. One-time donations are also greatly appreciated. Our 2026 Odenong Powwow planning is officially underway!

Here is the NEW GiveButter link to support NEXT year's Powwow:
https://givebutter.com/Odenong6

Please stay tuned for an upcoming survey, our Turtle Island Necklace auction, and more announcements in the coming weeks.

Chi-Miigwetch to all of you!

By Tiny Seed Project, Inc.

27/05/2025

5th Annual Odenong Powwow

2025 Odenong Powwow

26/05/2025

Did you attend this year's Powwow?? We'd love to hear from you! We stive to get better and better each year, and we can do so even more with your feedback. If you came as a spectator, drummer, singer, dancer, or volunteer, please consider filling out this brief survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfnOX5c3GlI792NcGtiEQGYh-xUbcgVl1jYjsWID8O7wgT1_g/viewform?usp=header

(note: vendors, you will receive a separate survey in your email)

We are striving to make the Odenong Powwow as positive an experience as possible for all attendees. We would appreciate any feedback you have to help us achieve that goal. Thank you for your time in completing this survey.

26/05/2025

And that's a wrap for our 2025 Powwow! Thank you SO much to everyone who came out and volunteered, worked, vended, danced, drummed, purchased items, donated, spectated, supported from afar. We are so grateful!

If you are passionate about seeing this Powwow continue and are interested in helping us make that happen, please consider a monthly recurring donation for our 2026 fundraising campaign. One-time donations are also greatly appreciated. Our 2026 Odenong Powwow planning is officially underway!

Here is the NEW givebutter link to support NEXT year's Powwow:
https://givebutter.com/Odenong6

Please stay tuned for an upcoming survey, our Turtle Island Necklace auction, and more announcements in the coming weeks.

Chi-Miigwetch to all of you!

By Tiny Seed Project, Inc.

26/05/2025

Firstly, kitche miigwetch Kitche Manitou for everything in this life. Thank you for putting it in the hearts of people to come together in that good way this weekend. Secondly, thank you to everyone who visited, supported, mentioned, helped, watched, or otherwise contributed to the 5th Annual Odenong Powwow. I am overwhelmed by the kindness and love the community has shared with me and each other. It truly is a community effort that makes it possible and I am humbled by how the community, Native and non-Native alike, came together this weekend to make it an enjoyable event for so many. To anyone who didn't have a good time, I hope your next time at a powwow is good and washes away any bad feelings you may have encountered at our powwow. -Justin Beatty, founder and powwow committee chairperson of the Odenong Powwow.

22/05/2025

Hey everyone, we're still trying to reach our fundraising goal but it would be even more amazing if we surpass it! If you can, please donate to our GiveButter fundraising campaign, click the link below!!

By Tiny Seed Project, Inc.

22/05/2025

Hello everyone!!! We are happy to let you know we have partnered with Native American LifeLines of Boston to let you know about their services and resources.

Located at 150 Mount Vernon Street, 4th Floor, Dorchester, MA 02125, Native American LifeLines, Inc. is a Title V Indian Health Services contracted Urban Indian Health Program serving the Baltimore and Boston metropolitan areas.

The Mission of Native American LifeLines is to promote health and social resiliency within Urban American Indian communities. Native American LifeLines applies principles of trauma informed care to provide culturally centered behavioral health, dental, outreach and referral services.

They provide:
CASE MANAGEMENT
Get help setting your health and wellness goals and find the providers, resources, and social supports to help you achieve your best results. Case managers provide referrals, guidance, and support.

COUNSELING
A range of individual and group substance use and mental health counseling services are available, both in person and via telehealth.

HEALTH PROMOTION & DISEASE PREVENTION
NAL offers many fun and rewarding events throughout the year to increase public knowledge about the health concerns of our people.

ELDER/YOUTH/FAMILY PROGRAMMING
Programming offered to support the wellness and healing of our generations at all stages. Unique programs tailored to each community.

To learn more visit

Native American LifeLines, Inc. is a Title V Indian Health Services contracted Urban Indian Health Program serving the Baltimore and Boston metropolitan areas. The Mission of Native American LifeLines is to promote health and social resiliency within Urban American Indian communities. Native America...

20/05/2025

Hello everyone! The Odenong Powwow & the Mead Art Museum have partnered to bring you information about the "Boundless Digital Project" (https://boundless-edu.wordpress.amherst.edu/)

The Boundless Digital Project springs from a two-part exhibition of the same name that took place at the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College from August 29, 2023, to January 7, 2024, and February 27, 2024, to July 7, 2024. Poet and writer Heid E. Erdrich (Ojibwe) researched and organized the exhibitions.

The exhibitions featured work by Native American writers and artists grounded but not contained in the Northeast and included materials from Amherst College’s Collection of Native American Literature, the collections of the Mead, works on loan from artists, and other institutional and private collections.

The Boundless Digital Project features an audio tour & a K-12 curriculum and teacher resources.

Some featured artists and authors in the Boundless Project
William Apess (Pequot/Mashpee Wampanoag)
Justin Beatty (Ojibwe, Garden River First Nation)
Acee Blue Eagle (Creek)
Andrea Carlson (Anishinaabe, descendant of the Grand Portage Band)
Brent Michael Davids (Mohican/Munsee-Lenape)
Jeremy Dennis (Shinnecock)
Melissa Jane Fawcett (Mohegan)
Eric Gansworth (Onondaga)
Sierra Henries (Chaubunagungamaug Nipmuc)
Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk)
Frank Buffalo Hyde (Onondaga)
Elizabeth James-Perry (Aquinnah Wampanoag)
Jonathan James-Perry (Aquinnah Wampanoag)
E. Pauline Johnson (Mohawk)
Courtney M. Leonard (Shinnecock)
Samson Occom (Mohegan)
Alexander Posey (Creek)
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (Salish-Kootenai/Metis)
Cara Romero (Chemehuevi)
Fritz Scholder (Luiseño)
Theresa Secord (Penobscot)
Mary Sully (Yankton Dakota)
Brittney Peauwe Wunnepog Walley (Nipmuc)
Marie Watt (Seneca)
Dyani White Hawk (Lakota)
Zitkala-Ša (Dakota)