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The inconvenient indian review5/30/2023 Powwows not only have restorative abilities to create community for those who perform, attend, and coordinate them, but they are only a small glimpse of the broader socio-political networks that take place throughout the powwow circuit. Today, powwows are intertribal social events organized by committees and coordinated with their local native communities. Drawing on Beverly Diamond’s alliance studies approach (2007), which illuminates the importance of social relationships across space and time, as well as my engagement in these powwows, I trace real and imagined connections between Danza and powwow cultures. Since the mid-1970s, the Indigenous ritual dance known as Danza has had a profound impact on the self-identification and concept of space in Xicana communities, but how is this practice received in the powwow space? My project broadly explores how student-organized powwows at UC Davis, UC Riverside, and UC San Diego, are decolonizing spaces for teaching and learning about Native American identities.
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