The Monacan Nation Pow Wow: Symbol of Indigenous Survival and Resistance in the Tobacco Row Mountains

Authors

Samuel R. Cook, Virginia Tech
John L. Johns, Monacan Indian Nation
Karenne Wood, Monacan Indian Nation

Abstract

This article explores the meaning of the Monacan pow wow to those who live in the host community. We contend that this pow wow constitutes a political expression for the Monacan people, a celebration of survival as indigenous people not only in a state where Indian policy took the form of "documentary genocide" (Smith, 1992), but in a county where local power brokers managed to configure a local political economy in which Indians were integrated at the bottom of a virtual caste system. Considered in a community context, this gathering also constitutes a space where the Monacan people can articulate, on their own terms their existence as a contemporary indigenous people with a unique history.

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Cook, Samuel R.; Johns, John L.; and Wood, Karenne (2004) "The Monacan Nation Pow Wow: Symbol of Indigenous Survival and Resistance in the Tobacco Row Mountains," Southern Anthropologist: Vol. 30: No. 2, Article 2.
Available at: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/southern_anthropologist/vol30/iss2/2