Events Schedule


This section will provide you with the detailed schedule for each of the 10 day Thunder in the Desert event.

We urge you to check back often as these schedule's will be updated frequently. A final event schedule will be posted at the event on each particular day.

Due to the large numbers of requests regarding this event we are not able to respond to all inquiries due to time constraint.

We urge you to print any needed information from this site. You may also want to visit our Frequent Questions section.

Schedules may and do change due to the variety of Tribes, travel plans and custom cards.

 

Special Thanks to Irene Bedard, star of Walt Disney's 'POCAHONTAS'.
She will be present for the entire 10 day event.

TBA
8:00 am to Dusk
Camp Day (Set-up, Tipi’s, Indian Villages)

TBA 12 noon - 10 pm
Wailia Dance Competition $1,000 adult, Teen & Children categories - Tohono O'odham San Xavier Elders Senior Dance Group; Tohono O'odham Basket Dancers; Horse Hair Basket Weaving/Demonstrating by the Mendez Family

Cultural Performances: Aztec Nahui Ollin Dancers, Irene Bedard-Inupiat/Cree, Walt Disney’s Pocahontas; Irene Bedard & Deni; Hopi Jr./Sr High School Dancers.
Demonstrators: Pacific Northwest Drum making, Mata Ortiz pottery, Traditional Navajo Herbs, Yaqui wood craver, Hawaiian bone carver, Hawaiian graphic painter, Ernie Northrup Jr - Hopi Kachina carver.
Arts and Crafts Market
Grounds Close at Dusk

TBA
Electric POW-WOW "Concerts" 30 indigenous groups from Noon to Dusk.
A. Paul Ortega - Mescalaro Apache
R. Carlos Nakai - Navajo / Ute
Daniel Hicks - Contemporary flute
Black Raven Band - Contemporary flute assemble
Irene Bedard & Deni - Contemporary band
Fundacion de investagacion & desarrollo intergral otavalo

Cultural Performances: Aztec Nahui Ollin Dancers, Irene Bedard-Inupiat/Cree, Walt Disney’s Pocahontas; Irene Bedard & Deni; Hopi Jr./Sr High School Dancers.
Demonstrators: Pacific Northwest Drum making, Mata Ortiz pottery, Traditional Navajo Herbs, Yaqui wood craver, Hawaiian bone carver, Hawaiian graphic painter, Ernie Northrup Jr - Hopi Kachina carver.

Dancers registration closes Saturday at 2 p.m.

Everyday Entertainment: Calvin Standing Bear Irene Bedard - voice of 'POCAHONTAS'

TBA
Competition Powwow/Gourd Dancing - Noon to 10 PM
Competition Powwow Warm-up Day: 4PM - 10 PM
M/C: Sammy "Tonkei" White
M/C: Robert Whiteagle
A/D: Flint Carney Kiowa, Scottsdale, Az
H.D,J.: Abe Benson, Tahono O'odham / Lakota / Pima, Gallup, NM
H.S.D.: TBA
H.L.D.: Saste Takosa, Lakota, Pine Ridge, South Dakota
H.M.D.: Toby Jose, Pima, Az
H.W.D.: Chosen Each Session

Dancers registration closed at 2 p.m.

Cultural Performances: Aztec Nahui Ollin Dancers, Irene Bedard-Inupiat/Cree, Walt Disney’s Pocahontas; Irene Bedard & Deni; Hopi Jr./Sr High School Dancers.
Demonstrators: Pacific Northwest Drum making, Mata Ortiz pottery, Traditional Navajo Herbs, Yaqui wood craver, Hawaiian bone carver, Hawaiian graphic painter, Ernie Northrup Jr - Hopi Kachina carver.

TBA
Competition Powwow/Gourd Dancing - Noon to 10 PM
MIDNIGHT FRIENDSHIP ROUND DANCE (Bring warm clothing, personal objects, friends & relatives) FREE ADMINISSION 11:45 p.m. - 12:05 a.m.

M/C: Sammy "Tonkei" White
M/C: Robert Whiteagle
A/D: Flint Carney Kiowa, Scottsdale, Az
H.D,J.: Abe Benson, Tahono O'odham / Lakota / Pima, Gallup, NM
H.S.D.: TBA
H.L.D.: Saste Takosa, Lakota, Pine Ridge, South Dakota
H.M.D.: Toby Jose, Pima, Az
H.W.D.: Chosen Each Session
Cultural Performances: Aztec Nahui Ollin Dancers, Irene Bedard-Inupiat/Cree, Walt Disney’s Pocahontas; Irene Bedard & Deni; Hopi Jr./Sr High School Dancers.
Demonstrators: Pacific Northwest Drum making, Mata Ortiz pottery, Traditional Navajo Herbs, Yaqui wood craver, Hawaiian bone carver, Hawaiian graphic painter, Ernie Northrup Jr - Hopi Kachina carver.
Dancers registration closed Saturday at 2 p.m.
Grounds Close at 10 pm and Re-open at 11:30

Everyday Entertainment: Calvin Standing Bear Irene Bedard - voice of 'POCAHONTAS'

TBA
*SUNRISE CEREMONY - 5 AM TO 7 AM
Competition Powwow/Gourd Dancing - Noon to 10 PM
Sunrise ceremony (Bring warm clothing, items to be blessed & aspirations written on a piece of paper for the Scare Prayer Bowl) FREE ADMISSION 5 a.m. to 7 am

M/C: Sammy "Tonkei" White
M/C: Robert Whiteagle
A/D: Flint Carney Kiowa, Scottsdale, Az
H.D,J.: Abe Benson, Tahono O'odham / Lakota / Pima, Gallup, NM
H.S.D.: TBA
H.L.D.: Saste Takosa, Lakota, Pine Ridge, South Dakota
H.M.D.: Toby Jose, Pima, Az
H.W.D.: Chosen Each Session
Cultural Performances: Aztec Nahui Ollin Dancers, Irene Bedard-Inupiat/Cree, Walt Disney’s Pocahontas; Irene Bedard & Deni; Hopi Jr./Sr High School Dancers.
Demonstrators: Pacific Northwest Drum making, Mata Ortiz pottery, Traditional Navajo Herbs, Yaqui wood craver, Hawaiian bone carver, Hawaiian graphic painter, Ernie Northrup Jr - Hopi Kachina carver.

TBA
World Indigenous Peoples’ Exhibition Day - Noon to Dusk
Nahui Ollin Aztec Dance Troupe, Mexico City, Mexico
Ecuadorian Musicians
Music From the Andes, Inca,
Pan Flute Music
Cultural Performances: Aztec Nahui Ollin Dancers, Irene Bedard-Inupiat/Cree, Walt Disney’s Pocahontas; Irene Bedard & Deni; Hopi Jr./Sr High School Dancers.
Demonstrators: Pacific Northwest Drum making, Mata Ortiz pottery, Traditional Navajo Herbs, Yaqui wood craver, Hawaiian bone carver, Hawaiian graphic painter, Ernie Northrup Jr - Hopi Kachina carver.

Everyday Entertainment: Calvin Standing Bear Irene Bedard - voice of 'POCAHONTAS'

TBA
Seventh Generation Youth and Golden Age Day - Noon to Dusk
Children’s pow-wow and Golden Age Mentoring; Round Dances; Children's pow-wow, games, corn grinding, and arts and crafts
Cultural Performances: Aztec Nahui Ollin Dancers, Irene Bedard-Inupiat/Cree, Walt Disney’s Pocahontas; Irene Bedard & Deni; Hopi Jr./Sr High School Dancers.
Demonstrators: Pacific Northwest Drum making, Mata Ortiz pottery, Traditional Navajo Herbs, Yaqui wood craver, Hawaiian bone carver, Hawaiian graphic painter, Ernie Northrup Jr - Hopi Kachina carver.

TBA
Native American Veterans Day - Noon to Dusk
(Healing the Wounds of War)
             (Admission Free to all Veterans Dressed Out)
**ALL COLOR GUARDS INVITED ** Admission Free
Gourd Dancing; War Mother’s Songs; Veterans Honor Songs
World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War, Desert Storm and Middle East Conflicts
Cultural Performances: Aztec Nahui Ollin Dancers, Irene Bedard-Inupiat/Cree, Walt Disney’s Pocahontas; Irene Bedard & Deni; Hopi Jr./Sr High School Dancers.
Demonstrators: Pacific Northwest Drum making, Mata Ortiz pottery, Traditional Navajo Herbs, Yaqui wood craver, Hawaiian bone carver, Hawaiian graphic painter, Ernie Northrup Jr - Hopi Kachina carver.

Everyday Entertainment: Calvin Standing Bear Irene Bedard - voice of 'POCAHONTAS'

TBA
Gourd Dancing: Noon to 10 p.m.

Cultural Performances: Aztec Nahui Ollin Dancers, Irene Bedard-Inupiat/Cree, Walt Disney’s Pocahontas; Irene Bedard & Deni; Hopi Jr./Sr High School Dancers.
Demonstrators: Pacific Northwest Drum making, Mata Ortiz pottery, Traditional Navajo Herbs, Yaqui wood craver, Hawaiian bone carver, Hawaiian graphic painter, Ernie Northrup Jr - Hopi Kachina carver.

TBA
Traditional Social Pow-wow Noon - 6 p.m.
Gourd Dancing Noon - 1 p.m.
- Give-a-way - Honoring of volunteers;
Cultural Performances: Aztec Nahui Ollin Dancers, Irene Bedard-Inupiat/Cree, Walt Disney’s Pocahontas; Irene Bedard & Deni; Hopi Jr./Sr High School Dancers.
Demonstrators: Pacific Northwest Drum making, Mata Ortiz pottery, Traditional Navajo Herbs, Yaqui wood craver, Hawaiian bone carver, Hawaiian graphic painter, Ernie Northrup Jr - Hopi Kachina carver.

Everyday Entertainment: Calvin Standing Bear Irene Bedard - voice of 'POCAHONTAS'

ALL EVENTS AND TIMES ARE TENTATIVE
ADDITIONAL GROUPS: (Dancers, Artists, Presentations, Exhibits) CAN AND DO CHANGE

* Free Admission
** All dance participants when dressed out in Regalia will not be charged.

Admission:
$12.00 per person per day - Children under 8 are free
$30.00 per person for 3-day weekend pass (Friday, Saturday & Sunday)
$100.00 per person for 10 day pass (entire event)
Your hand will be stamped which is good to come and go all one day

IT IS DIFFICULT, VERY DIFFICULT TO KEEP A 10,000 YEAR OLD CULTURE ALIVE THROUGH THE 21ST CENTURY

"WE INVITE SPONSORS FOR THIS EVENT. LET'S KEEP OUR CHILDREN DANCING!"

All dancers participants when dressed out in Reglia will not be charged.
Look at the fee schedule in Frequent Questions
Tickets available on site at 10am.
All schedules are subject to change.