Save the Date: 16th Annual Daniel Nimham Intertribal Pow Wow

The 16th Annual Daniel Nimham Intertribal Pow Wow is Aug. 20-21 this year at the Putnam County Veterans Memorial Park on Gipsy Trail Road, off Route 301 in Carmel, NY.

Nimham Pow Wow gates open at 10 a.m. and the Grand Entry begins at noon.

There will be Native American drumming, dancing, storytelling, teepee, food vendors, arts & crafts vendors, pony rides, Skyhunters in Flight birds of prey show and renowned flutist, Joseph Firecrow! Saturday night at 7pm in the Big Barn there will be a hand drum competition; admission is a $1 donation for the competition. 100.7 WHUD DJ Mike Bennett will be at the Pow Wow Sunday 12 noon – 2pm; register to win dinner for two.

Drum performances include the Nimham Mountain Singers, Red Storm Drum & Dance Troupe, Pretty Elk Singers, and Northern Light.

Donations are welcome: proceeds go to HOMH (Honor Our Military Heroes) and Semper Fi Odyssey – a six-day, holistic transition-assistance event with a curriculum designed to get participants ready for life after military service while preparing them for success, run by Retired Major General T.S. Jones (USMC) in the Pennsylvania hills and free to any military serviceman or woman discharged due to injury or illness.

Previous Pow Wows have helped raise over $24,000 for U.S. veterans! All donations to the Pow Wow, HOMH, and Semper Fi Odyssey are tax deductible. For more information on Semper Fi Odyssey visit http://www.outdoorodyssey.org/?page_id=1056. Nimham Pow Wow Support provided by H. G. Fairfield Arts Center for the Environment, along with several local sponsors.

Partial funding is made possible, in part, through the Putnam Art Council’s Arts Link Grant Program with fund from NYS Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Cuomo and the NYS Legislature.

For more information, call 845-225-8154 or visit www.nimham.com or 2016 Daniel Nimham Intertribal Pow Wow on www.facebook.com.