The event's full name is „Indian and Trapper Festival“. They represent a variety of re-enactment chiefly connected to the American West. There is a trapper's and trader's camp, they've got Country & Western concerts and line dance shows and workshops, etc. The 'Indian camp' and the Powwow come on top of that.
However, the event did raise criticism as they accept sellers of alcoholic beverages at the premises, and the Powwow grounds are not separated, as far as I can see from reports online.
Another aspect is the annual show of prey birds, as these include owls.
http://www.powwow-kalender.de/forum/viewtopic.php?t=385post by: gast66 Di, 18. Jun 2013, 11:43
Last year, of course alcohol was sold and nobody did anything about it when people brought their beer close to the dance lodge. Many postings in the internet suggest that the organisers looked the other way. After all, the event is also financed by selling alcohol. I think the Indian guests took all this with Indian calmness and were good guests. This does not mean it was okay.
It is quite a bit of audacity of the organisers to call this a „Powwow“ and it is an enormous embarassment for the Powwow scene. What a pity that so much lack of respect is met with approval.
Posting by guest66 Mi, 14. Aug 2013, 12:43
I did not count in the paid token Indians who were there.
Another aspect and not quite in line with the theme of the American West is that they also accept Civil War re-enactors – there are photos on the ITF site taken during the ITF 2013 showing people wearing uniforms of the Confederate army. It is no secret here that the Confederate states stood for a society based on inequality, disfranchisement, and exploitation of the majority of the population in favour of a small privileged class.
http://www.itf-munich.de/stimmen-zum-itf-2013/There are two videos here (scroll down a bit from the top) – the first one done by a person from the audience, showing the parade which starts the festival, and a long sequence taken during the powwow. The second video is the promotion video done by the organisers. While in the first video I didn't see any ndn participants, only whites dressed up, Indian guests appear in the second one. They also point out that organisers will gather donations which will go to two projects: a children's hospital in Bavaria and to the Lakota Winter Project. The site explains the donations were passed on to Andrea Cox during a Powwow in Frankfort later in 2013.
