Native American Indian Pow wow - Men Chicken Dancing

Numaga Pow wow, 2005. Men doing Chicken Dance. Sadly we only got the last segment of the Chicken Dance. The pow wow is named in honor of Numaga who was a Paiute chief. Numaga led the people during the Pyramid Lake Paiute Indian war. That was the last major conflict between whites and Indian people in the west. Numaga was a Peace Chief. The Pow wow is held by the Reno Sparks Indian colony, which is made up of Paiute, Washoes and Shoshone people. I was told that the Men’s Chicken Dance imitates the