Well..maybe the folks around here are sticking closer to the older ways, cause I have not seen fans in women's hands at the powwows around here, except for the head lady dancer. I want a fan just to have one myself..I won't be dancing any more anyway..As for the clothing styles, I'm sure we started out using whatever we had handy to cover ourselves, and as we saw other things we liked better, we took them on, just like anyone else would.Personally, I like the tradition of Levis and t-shirts. Barbara (Greybird 7) -- On Mon, 12 Jun 2000 09:49:55 Graywolf wrote: >Barbie is right about the fans. But for the past 30 years so many tribal >members are traveling to pow-wows that we have started to intermingle our >regalia. The only thing that still sets us apart is the cotton "Southern" >women's dresses with the yoke. In one of my articles for Bishinik I >commented that much of our ery early clothing styles were exactly the same >as the plains tribes. Early paintings of our people show the men wearing >only loin clothes and skins shirts and the women wearing skin dresses. But >the Southern cotton granny dress changed much of that for our women. > >Nevertheless, as our young people travel around the country to pow-wows the >clothing all starts to look the same for ALL tribes again and as our >children intermarry with men and women from other tribes, we are slowly >adding real meaning to the expression, "blood brothers." > >Lucas Graywolf > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "The Peddicords" <[email protected]> >To: <[email protected]> >Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 9:27 AM >Subject: [CHAHTA] Dance Fans > > >> I was under the impression that dance fans were a plains nations thingy >for >> everyone and that in the SE nations only persons of importance used them >> like a alikchi. Do not as a younger remember seeing them carried by women. >> But then in fifty years things do change. Barbie >> >> >> >> ==== CHAHTA Mailing List ==== >> Choctaw Home Page: >> http://freepages.cultures.rootsweb.com/~choctaw/index.htm >> >> > > >==== CHAHTA Mailing List ==== >Choctaw Home Page: >http://freepages.cultures.rootsweb.com/~choctaw/index.htm > > Angelfire for your free web-based e-mail. http://www.angelfire.com