POW WOWS Professional Photography

SYCUAN INDIAN RESERVATION U.S.A., September 9, 10, 11, 2005 -- Professional pow-wow photographs of the Sycuan Traditional Gathering and 16th Annual Pow Wow, featuring the Yuman Indians bird singers and bird dancers of the Kumeyaay-Diegueno Nation, Southern California. The three-day event is FREE and open to the public including 2007, 2008, 2009 Sycuan Powwow events.

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WEBMASTER FORWARD:
My special thanks to all the pow-wow participants, guests, staff, and the Sycuan Band of Kumeyaay Nation for your patience and support in the making of these still photographs -- it is my honor to be your official photographer on this very special Native American celebration.

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Great effort was made to provide a positive, respectful presentation of the gathering for the Kumeyaay Nation. Please CONTACT the webmaster, Gary G. Ballard, if you would like your picture removed, or if you would like to add additional text information to your picture -- all feedback is welcome to improve this picture gallery and website. Or call the webmaster directly at:

DEDICATION:
This portfolio is hereby dedicated to ARLENE GALVAN for her hard work, leadership and unwavering support.

2006 Sycuan Pow-wow Pictures: It was a real THRILL for me to exhibit so many pictures from one job last year, but the free time involved in producing this 100-plus digital photo gallery is too extreme to do again with my 2006 Sycuan powwow photos this year. I have added a dozen or so 2006 images, but this will likely be it for San Diego pow wow photos — ENJOY!

Are you seeing these beautiful professional color photos in best possible color? Please see Gary Ballard's professional color management tutorial for technical information about how to achieve professional true color in internet web browsers — the .jpg photos in this digital portfolio are in the untagged sRGB color space.

Many young Native American children, grades K-12, attend the classes to learn about their Native American cultural dance protocol to actively participate in California Indian traditional gatherings and powwows.

The experienced young female pow-wow dancing instructor (in red) took her students outside for some fun to enjoy the cooler summer temperature and daylight.

YUMAN BIRD SINGERS BIRD DANCERS

YUMAN bird singing singers and bird dancing dancers of North America -- Southern California, southwestern Arizona, and northern Baja California, Mexico -- gathered during the 2005 Sycuan Traditional Gathering, and celebrated their ageless aboriginal cultural heritage on the Sycuan Indian Reservation, El Cajon, CA, San Diego County.

The international gathering of Yuman Indians pictured above may include the Cocopah Cucapa, Kumeyaay Kumiai, Quechan, Mohave, Paipai Pai Pai, Ipai Tipai, Kiliwa, Yavapai, Havasupai, Hualapai, Maricopa, Indigenous peoples of North America; including SHOSHONEAN Indians of Luiseño Luiseno, Juaneño Juaneno, Serrano, Gabrielino, Chemehuevi and Cahuilla nations.

KUMEYAAY.INFO provides free online audio video cultural recordings of these California Indians powwow singing in 2002, as well as Wildcat singers in our free movie theater.

RON CHRISTMAN, Kumeyaay Iipay Ipai Santa Ysabel Reservation (far right corner in white hat) was emcee for the birdsingers, and Arlene Galvan is the Sycuan pow-wow director. The 2006 Sycuan pow wow will be on the weekend after Labor Day. Sycuan pow-wow office may be reached at 619-445-7776 for more information.

Southern California POW-WOW INFORMATION:

POWWOW SCHEDULES for Barona Powwow, Lakeside; Morongo Pow wow, Cabazon; Santa Ynez Powwow, Santa Ynez; Soboba Pow wow, San Jacinto; San Manuel Powwow, San Bernardino; Indio Pow wow, Indio; 29 Palms Band Powwow, Coachella; local Sycuan Pow-wow, including information listings, dates, locations, telephone numbers, contests, calendars, lodging, motels, hotels (special discount rates), camping, parking, transportation, registration, directions, prizes, casinos, booth rentals, water access, restaurants, pow-wow policies and banned items, please see lower page on LINK:
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INDIAN NATIONS • POW-WOW CIRCUIT TRAIL OF CALIFORNIA

THE SYCUAN GATHERING of nations is the largest and best Native American pow wow on the West Coast. The Sycuan band's first-rate hospitality and large cash prizes attract the finest North American indigenous dancers, singers and drummers -- from the four directions -- including northern and southern Plains Indians, and the Comanche, Kiowa, Muskogee, Diné, Piute, Crow, Nez Perce, Mandan, Blackfoot, Paiute, Siksika, Pawnee, Sac and Fox, Pueblo, Winnebago, Acoma, Shoshone, Chippewa, Sycamore, Yaqui, Wichita, Minominee, Blackfeet, Apache, Lakota, Sioux, Navajo, Opata, Osage, Seminole, Yoreme, Montauk, Ute, Choctaw, Cree, Creek, Caddo, and Cherokee nations, plus the California Yuman and Shoshonean Indians.

POW-WOWS DANCE CATEGORIES include the basic: 1) Ladies Traditional Buckskin Dance, 2) Ladies Fancy Shawl Dance, 3) Ladies Jingle Dress Dance, 4) Ladies Southern Cloth Dance, 5) Mens Fancy War Dance, 6) Mens Southern Straight Dance, 7) Mens Northern Traditional Dance, 8) Mens Grass Dance. Categories are sub divided into tiny tots, children, juniors, teens, adults, golden agers, and elder contests.

SYCUAN PAID OUT $80,000 IN CASH PRIZES PHOTOS OF WINNERS.

Sycuan Casino and Resort, El Cajon, California, is one of the largest most successful casino Indian gaming tribes in the world.

Sycuan Pow wow and Photography Sponsored by:

The Sycuan Band of Kumeyaay Nation.

These beautiful Southern California pow-wow images and web pages were photographed, edited, optimized, designed and produced by PROFESSIONAL POWWOW PHOTOGRAPHER writer Native American web site design art direction digital production artist portfolio of creative imagery and SEO by Gary G. Ballard, San Diego California.

TECHNICAL:
The 2005 photographs (above) were captured with a Nikon D70 D200 cameras, RAW .nef format, imported into Photoshop 9 as 16-bit Adobe RGB, edited and archived in high-bit, Adjustment-Layer workflow, and converted to 8-bit sRGB for the web. Adobe GoLive 8 was used to create and publish this web site, on a G4 Mac running 10.4.

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Kumeyaay Native American POW-WOW PICTURES please see the webmaster's online commercial pow-wow portfolio, including 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 powwows, posters, free powwow birdsinging and birddancing video movie DVD, audio recordings, Indian face painting tribal regalia with more superb professional pictures, pics, photos, images of Native American regalias, Native American dancers singers, cultural ceremonies of the Kumeyaay and Yuman peoples of Southern California.