The Black Eagle Singers pounded the drums for a traditional buffalo dance song that led the final grand entry in the last ever Gathering of Nations Powwow. It was a moment of solemn reverence that ...

1983: Derek Mathews, an educator, holds a Native American student powwow at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, with hundreds of performers. It would be the unofficial start of what would ...

For more than four decades, the Gathering of Nations has been a major cultural event in New Mexico, drawing around 100,000 people annually and generating over $24 million in economic impact. Billed as ...