Bishop Visitor's Center

All drums, dancers and spectators welcome! A pow wow is a gathering, a place where Indigenous Peoples from all tribal backgrounds come to celebrate their cultures and time-honored traditions.  In the oldest days and the earliest ways these gatherings were held, for example, to cure disease or ensure success in a battle or hunt.  This was also a time for tribes to form intertribal alliances.  These alliances allowed tribe-specific songs, dances, and ceremonies to be exchanged, thus laying the foundation for today’s modern, intertribal “powwow” with the sharing of songs, dances, food, and gift-giving.    What To Expect  The Pabanamanina Pow […]