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Autumn is the grand daughter of
Ralph and Maxine Zotigh and daughter of Sharon Zotigh. She lives in
Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Autumn has been dancing all
her life and performs regularly at the Pueblo Cultural Center in addition to
many regional dance performances and powwows. She is a champion fancy shawl
dancer. In 2005, she placed or won at: The Gathering of Nations (Albuquerque,
NM), Julyamsh (Post Falls, Idaho), Indian Hills Powwow (Oklahoma City, OK) and
the National Museum of the American Indian Powwow (Washington, D.C.) She was recently
interviewed for the Washington File (US Embassy Newsletter,
September, 2005) during the NMAI powwow:
"Most of the dancers at the event were experienced and
looking to impress judges with their distinctive styles. Autumn Zotigh, a
member of the Kiowa and Sioux tribes, has been dancing for more than 10 years
and now dances competitively almost every two weeks because she says it is
fun.
In American Indian history, men have participated in ceremonial powwows for much longer than women. The fancy shawl dance, the category in which Zotigh competed, began in the mid 1900s in North Dakota. Prior to that, women were not allowed to dance in a public arena."
Autumn plays soccer to keep in
shape for fancy dancing. She is listed in http://www.aspenleafcasting.com/n_girls.html
and has taken summer acting workshops at the Oklahoma Childen's
Theater for four years.
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