The Midnight Sun Intertribal Powwow is an affiliate of the Fairbanks Art Association Tax ID # 83-0380855
Post Office Box 80034 Fairbanks, Alaska 99708 (907-456-2245)
Schedule for the 2008Midnight
Sun Intertribal Powwow/July 11-13
To be held in the open field behind the Carlson Center
(2010 -2nd Avenue)
GATES OPEN to the public
at 5pm on Friday and 11am on Saturday and Sunday
GRAND ENTRY DAILY
Veterans Posting of Colors / Honor Song / Flag Song / Invocation
Line up for Grand Entry at 5:30pm Friday, 11:30am Saturday and Sunday
FRIDAY, JULY 11
5:30pm: Blessing of the Grounds
6pm: GRAND ENTRY
6:30 – 11pm: Traditional Powwow
SATURDAY, JULY 12
12noon: GRAND ENTRY
12:30 – 5pm: Traditional Powwow
POTLATCH for Participants and Invited Guests
7 – 9pm: Celebration of Alaska Native Culture
Nilee Zhruk (Athabascan Stick Pull Game)
Contestants may register in the Information Tent
Performance by Upward Bound Dance Group (UAF)
Additional Dance Groups TBA
9pm – 11pm: Traditional Powwow
SUNDAY, JULY 13
12noon: GRAND ENTRY followed by Traditional Powwow
2pm: Ceremonial Eagle Release
2:30 – 5pm: Traditional Powwow / Closing
RAFFLE PRIZE DRAWING at 4pm on SUNDAY in the MSIPC Information Tent
SILENT AUCTION Bids Close at 4pm on Sunday
Featured Powwow Drum Groups Include: Our Guest Drum, Lakota Thunder;
Our Host Drum, Soaring Eagle; plus Morning Star, Seven Buffalo and the
Unity Drum
Bald Eagle courtesy of The
Bird Learning & Treatment Center
Anchorage, AK (907) 562-4852
The Midnight Sun Intertribal Powwow Council
is organized exclusively to bring together
Alaska Natives, American Indians, and First Nations People of Canada in a powwow setting to share similarities and diversities, to honor the elders, and children, and to educate the general public of the heritage of the indigenous people of North America.
Midnight
Sun Intertribal Powwow ©2007
All Rights Reserved.
