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"Welcome to Ponca.com if
you are a tribal member we hope to keep you informed about what's
happening in your tribal government and culture with news and up-coming
events. The History page will be extensive when it is more complete and
we look forward to your input as well. We are looking for any and all
past programs of the PoncaPow Wow if yoUr your
family have saved any of thes programs of the past 100 years we would
like to make digital copies for the site so everyone can enjoy them. We
are working on a language dictionary as well and hope to have it up and
running soon."
Filmmaker and writer Dan
Jones (Ponca) is the chairman of the Ponca Tribe and former director of
the Ponca Nation's Office of Environmental Management, where he has led
efforts to hold major polluters accountable for petroleum contamination
on the Ponca reservation. His first book of poetry, Blood of Our Earth,
is being published in 2005 by University of New Mexico Press. Jones'
television productions include The World of American Indian Dance, which
premiered on NBC in 2003. In 2001 Jones was the co-host of the First
Americans in the Arts awards ceremony, and produced the event's webcast.
In 1993 he received the Muse Award from the Association of American
Museums for a work produced by the new Smithsonian National Museum of
the American Indian. Jones is a traditional straight dancer and resides
in his hometown of Ponca City, Oklahoma.
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