Powwow – Navajo Nation Fair

September 6 at 5:00 pm until September 8 at 6:00 pm

64th Annual Navajo Festival of Arts and Culture

Event Coordinator: Erny 928.380.0771 & Darrell Tso 928.292.0160

Northern Host: Hail Creek , Taos, NM
Southern Host: Yellow Jacket Ignacio, Colo.
Navajo Honored Host: Sun Eagle Farmington, NM

MC : Otis Half Moon, Espanola, NM

Head Man: Brian Curley, Albuquerque, NM
Head Lady: Anecita Hernandez, Shonto, Ariz.

Arena Director: Everette White Kamloops, BC, Canada
Head Gourd Dancer: Leonard Anthony White Eagle Gourd Society, Shiprock NM.

Head Gourd Singer: Ron Tso, Chinle, Ariz.
Gourd MC: Mike Salabiye Gallup, NM.
Head Dance Judge: Larry White, Plummer, ID
Head Drum Judge: Kelly Grant , Macy, NE
Tabulator: Patsy Grant, Pinehill, NM

All Adult Categories, $800, $600, $400, $200, $100
All Teen Categories, $500, $300, $200
All Junior Categories $300, $200, $100

Drum Contest Northern/Southern Split.
$3,000, $2,000, $1,500, $1,000 and $500 split.

Special Contests:
Presidential Men’s Northern Traditional “In Honor of President Shelly’s War Bonnet” 6 places $1500, $1200, $1000, $800, $600, $400, (3) $200
Men’s Southern Straight Special sponsored by Head Man Dancer Brian Curley
Women’s Fancy sponsored by Head Lady Anecita Hernandez

Friday, Sept. 6, 2013
5 p.m. -8 pm Gourd Dance
8 p.m. Grand Entry

Saturday, Sept 7, 2013
12 p.m. – 6 p.m. Gourd Dance
6 p.m. Grand Entry

Sunday, Sept. 8, 2013
11 a.m. – 1 p.m. Gourd Dance
1 p.m. Grand Entry

Entry form available at www.Navajonationfair.com or at the Navajo Nation Fair Office.
In Gorman Hall next to the DCJM rodeo arena

Navajo Parks and Recreation Special Events Section
Telephone 928.871.6647 – Fax 928.871.6637
Highway 264 Building 36–A
PO Box 2 370, Window Rock, AZ 86515

The Navajo Nation and the Navajo Navajo Special Events Section will not be responsible for any loss due to accidents, theft, bodily injury, personal injury, and including loss of property. Events subject to cancellation or change.