| PowWows.com has announced their 5th Annual Member's Choice Awards. The Member's Choice Awards are a way for site members to recognize and honor outstanding powwows and the people affiliated with them for the past year.
Powwow Site Announces Member's Choice Awards The 5th Annual Member's Choice Awards are in. These are the awards granted each year by the Native American web site PowWows.com as a way for their members to recognize and honor outstanding powwows and the people affiliated with them for the past year. Nominations were accepted during December. The top nominees in each category were voted on by the members of the site during the month of January. This years awards had over 25 categories and hundreds of votes. PowWows.com congratulates all of the winners.
- Best Pow Wow - Gathering of Nations
- Best Contest Pow Wow - Schemitzun
- Pow Wow with the Best Vendors - Gathering of Nations
- Pow Wow with the Best Food - Gathering of Nations
- Best 49 - Red Earth
- Best Native American News Website - PowWows.com
- Best Website - MySpace.com
- Best Multimedia Website - Pow Wow Radio - http://radio.powwows.com
- Best Vendor - Rez Dog
- Best Emcee - Jason Goodstriker
- Best Arena Director - Rusty Gillette
- Best Overall Male - Wayne Silas Jr.
- Best Overall Female - Willow Jack
- Best Golden Age Female - Carmen Clairmont
- Best Golden Age Male - Norman Largo
- Best Chicken Dancer - Roster Top Sky
- Best Grass Dancer - Rusty Gillette and Randall Paskemin
- Best Fancy Feather Dancer - Spike Draper
- Best Straight Dancer - Wakeen Hamilton
- Best Northern Traditional Dancer - Ardell Scalplock
- Best Northern Buckskin Dancer - Jodi Gillette
- Best Southern Buckskin Dancer - Toni Tsatoke
- Best Northern Cloth Dancer - Alva Fiddler and Dora Old Elk
- Best Southern Cloth Dancer - Lynn Tsosie
- Best Jingle Dancer - Willow Jack
- Best Fancy Shawl Dancer - Tawny Hale
- Best Male Smoke Dancer - Lyle Anderson
- Best Female Smoke Dancer - Valarie Parker
- Best Hoop Dancer - Lisa Odjig
- Best Southern Drum - Thunder Hill
- Best Northern Drum - Northern Cree
- Best Hand Drum Singer - Jamon Paskamin
- Best Hand Drum Group - Bear Creek
- Best Pow Wow CD - Tha Tribe - Blue Scout
- Best Native American Female Performer - Lisa Odjig
- Best Native American Male Performer - Randy Wood
- Best Native American Music CD - Wild Rice - Songs from Menominee Nation
- Best Native American Performing Group - Indigeneous
To view the polls, please visit:
http://www.powwows.com/gathering/powwows-com-contests-poll-games/.
PowWows.com was created by Paul Gowder in 1996. The web site was originally established as a way to bring issues in Native America to life, as well as bridging Native Americans together with others across the world. Following ten years of growth and development, membership to PowWows.com is still free and currently is over 40,000 strong.
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