Member's Choice Awards Recognize Best on Pow Wow Trail

PowWows.com Member's Choice Awards recognize the best on the Pow Wow Trail in 2006. The awards include over 25 categories ranging from Best Overall Pow Wow, Best Northern Drum, Best Buckskin Dancer, to Best Vendor.

(PRWeb) February 3, 2007 -- PowWows.com is pleased to announce the 4th Annual Member's Choice Awards.

The Member's Choice Awards are a way for our members to recognize and honor outstanding powwows and the people affiliated with them for the past year. Nominations were accepted during December. The top nominees in each category were voted on by the members of the site during the month of January. This years awards had over 25 categories and hundreds of votes.

PowWows.com would like to congratulate all of the winners.

Best Overall Pow Wow

Gathering of Nations

Best Contest Pow Wow

Gathering of Nations

Pow Wow with the Best Vendors

Gathering of Nations

Pow Wow with the Best Food

Gathering of Nations

Best 49

Red Earth

Best Website

GatheringofNations.com

Best Multimedia Website

PowWows.com Live Webcasts

Best Vendor

Rez Dog

Best MC

Vince Beyl

Best Arena Director

Randy Paskemin

Best Northern Drum

Northern Cree

Best Southern Drum

Yellowhammer

Best Hand Drum Singer

Peanut Ironstar

Best Hand Drum Group

Northern Cree

Best Overall Male

Rusty Gillette

Best Overall Female

Willow Jack

Best Golden Age Male

Lewis Cozad

Best Golden Age Female

Charlene Cozad

Best Male Smoke Dancer

Lyle Anderson

Best Female Smoke Dancer

Valarie Parker

Best Hoop Dancer

Lisa Odjig

Best Chicken Dancer

Brian Waskewitch

Best Fancy Feather Dancer

Spike Draper

Best Grass Dancer

Peanut Ironstar

Best Northern Traditional Dancer

Ardell Scaplock

Best Straight Dancer

Wakeen Hamilton

Denny Medicinebird

Best Northern Buckskin Dancer

Jodi Gillette

Best Southern Buckskin Dancer

Toni Tsatoke

Best Southern Cloth Dancer

Sunny Rose Yellow Mule

Buffy Simmons

Best Northern Cloth Dancer

Alva Fiddler

Best Jingle Dancer

Willow Jack

Best Fancy Shawl Dancer

Tawney Hale

Best Native American Performing Group

Arvel Bird and One Nation

Best Native American Male Performer

Arvel Bird

Best Native American Female Performer

Shelly Morningsong

To view the polls, please visit:

http://www.powwows.com/gathering/forumdisplay.php?f=48

PowWows.com, LLC was created by Paul Gowder in 1996. The web site was originally established as a way to bring issues in Native America to life, as well as bridging Native Americans together with others across the world. Following ten years of growth and development, membership to PowWows.com is still free and currently over 25,000 strong.

For more information, please contact:

Paul Gowder

(803) 361-1160

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