Sponsors

Dah Guh Teh!

The 11th Red Paint Powwow is coming to Southwestern New Mexico. This international intertribal event will happen November 15, 16 & 17, 2024, at WNMU in Silver City.

The Red Paint Powwow includes a variety of dances with their own meanings and dance styles, along with the participation of drum groups, vendors and food booths. The Red Paint Powwow helps to celebrate and recognize the Apache people of the Southwest, along with numerous other participating indigenous tribes. With a daily attendance of 500 to 800 visitors and participants per day, many have awaited the return of this social and competitive powwow. The Red Paint Powwow is a Tribal effort to reestablish Southwest New Mexico as a Native venue for ceremonies and gatherings to highlight and share Apache lifeways, culture and history.

The Chiricahua Apache Nation and RPP have been the recipeint of several funding awards in past years. The Powwow Committee, as in the past, will research and utilize all funding opportunities including a lodger's tax, and local and national grants. Many of the awarded funds are for specific expenditures. They do not cover dance competition prize money or miscellaneous operating expenses. It is your generous donations that will provide the prize money and cover the cost of putting on the Red Paint Powwow.

Your sponsorship is tax-deductible through the Chiricahua Apache National Foundation, a Southwest New Mexico Tribal entity.

Sponsors:

• Chiricahua Apache National Foundation
• Wolfhorse Outfitters
• Western New Mexico University
• Apache Knife
• Silver City Town Council
• USDA - Gila National Forest
• United States Park Service
• Grant County, New Mexico
• State of New Mexico