The annual Auburn Big Time Pow Wow celebrates Native American culture with traditional dancing, food, arts, and crafts. In 2008, I had the honor of capturing some of the faces at the 2nd annual event at the Gold Country Fairgrounds in Auburn, CA.

Seventeen-year-olds Janessa Starkey, of Lincoln CA, and Leela Abrahamson, of Fort Hall, Idaho

Wiyaka Ota, or “Many Feathers”

Little Foot, of the Apaches, is related to Geronimo, the famous Apache leader

Percy Edwards, wearing hand-made traditional garments

Navajo Roberto Garcia of the Me-Wuk tribe

Ivory Gardner, a descendent of the Nesperce Tribe in Spokane, WA