Chief Lookingglass PowWow

Chief Lookingglass PowWow August 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 2026, in beautiful Kamiah, Idaho. 🪶 If it's pointed at you, you should be dancing. She does so herself.

Chief Looking Glass (Allalimya Takanin c.1832-1877) was a Nez Perce principal architect of many of the military strategies employed by the Nez Perce.

1996 KAMIAH, Idaho - Beware of the whip of Delores Lookingglass Wheeler. Wheeler was the whip woman at this year's 20th Chief Lookingglass Powwow in Kamiah, responsible for getting the grand entry in order. She doesn't strike anyone, but she will re

mind dancers by pointing to show the power of the dance. "Dance is kind of like medicine to me," 70-year-old Wheeler said. Wheeler and her two sisters, Edith Lookingglass Strombeck, 64, and Nancy Lookingglass Johns, 68, are descendants of Chief Lookingglass and the instigators of a powwow that began 20 years ago on the centennial anniversary of the Nez Perce War. "We were just going to have it one year," Wheeler said. Two decades later, the three women sat in lawn chairs alongside the action, smiling at their daughters, granddaughters and other relatives who have taken the lead in making the powwow happen every year. The three-day event was beaded with traditional dancing, food, memorials and name-giving ceremonies. Tents, teepees and trailers surrounded the powwow's grass dance floor that would become a swirl of dance at dusk. Vendors, dancers and travelers came from many tribes and many states to be in Kamiah among friends and families.

Photos from the PowWow! Videos next round.
08/28/2026

Photos from the PowWow! Videos next round.

Emotional and beautiful powwow weekend. 🪶
08/26/2026

Emotional and beautiful powwow weekend. 🪶

08/25/2026

Parade video fun!

Parade!
08/25/2026

Parade!

If you didn’t make it to Chief Lookingglass Powwow or missed out on a program, here are pictures of the program pages. M...
08/25/2026

If you didn’t make it to Chief Lookingglass Powwow or missed out on a program, here are pictures of the program pages. Might be worth something some day!

08/24/2026

Honoring of Darrell Wheeler round bustle special.

08/24/2026

Lighting Creek absolutely rocking the Chief Song for the War Bonnets.

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Wa-A'Yas Community Center, 401 Idaho Street
Kamiah, ID

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