The arena at the 19th annual Running Water Powwow and Cherokee Homecoming is consecrated because the dance ceremonies that take place there are also religious ceremonies.
Click here for a Google map to the location of the event at Ridgeferry Park.
“They tell a story in their dance,” said Frank Blair, the chairman of the powwow committee.
Romans can view these dances, which will be held as part of a competition Saturday, and there will be a free-for-all dance on Sunday.
“All dancers in regalia can get in for that,” said Blair.
Another addition this year will be traditional Aztec dancers, who performed at the festival in 2006. They will return to show traditional Mexican dance and crafts.
The feathered and painted dancers at the celebration are just one of the ways that Native American culture will be shared with the public this weekend.
Music and storytelling are also an integral part of the powwow with artists such as Tommy Wildcat, David “Whitewolf” Trezak, Cherokee Rose and Selena and Charlie Wayne Watson headlining the show.
The festival will include booths from as far away as Peru selling traditional Native American items. Blair estimated approximately 50 traders representing tribes from North, Central and South America will be selling handmade crafts.
There will also be primitive skills demonstrations in the art of making flutes and cornhusk dolls among others.
The festival last year brought out around 4,000 paid adults, said Blair. Admission is $7 and like last year kids under 12 and adults over 70 are free.
If you go
What: Running Water Powwow Where: North Shoals area of Ridge Ferry Park When: 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday Cost: $7. Free to children 12 and younger and 70 and older.
Labor Day calendar
The annual Armuchee Bluegrass Festival continues today at the Armuchee Music Park, 899 Turkey Mountain Road. On Saturday morning at 10 a.m. a workshop will be for banjo, guitar, mandolin and fiddle players of all ages. The cost is $10. Passes today are $10, and a Saturday pass is $12. The events scheduled for today and Saturday begin at noon. For more information call Chuck Langley at 706-766-6352.
The St. Mary’s Knights of Columbus will hold their annual Labor Day barbecue Monday beginning at 10 a.m. at the Rome Civic Center.
Last year they ran out of food at 12:30 p.m.
For more than 40 years, Knights Council 4410 has reserved Labor Day weekend for its largest fund-raising event of the year. In 2007, more than $13,000 was raised with all profits going into community projects supported by the Knights.
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