Crew 408 & Ani-Lati Chapter Pow Wow 2003
The 408 Venture Crew and Ani-Lati Chapter Pow Wow held on December 6, 2003, was a great success! Dancers and visitors came from around the Houston area and as far away as Austin, San Antonio, and northern Oklahoma. Brian Belding and Shayla LeClaire fulfilled their rolls as head man and head lady dancers admirably. MC Ernest Stevenson kept the program moving and the participants chuckling throughout the evening while Rocky Stevenson and Travis Wright controlled the crowd and greeted every attendee at least once. The featured drum was Eagle Point out of Cedar Park, Texas, and it was joined by a southern drum from Austin. “the Neko Pena Experience?” In addition to the regular inter-tribal dances, the head dancers lead numerous couples in the two-step and twenty-one (21) cakes were given away in the cake walk. The highlight of the evening was a specialty dance, the “sneak-up” request by adopted Crew Grandmother Rosetta LeClaire, Ponca/Oteo-Missouri, and performed by Travis Wright and Colin Kinsey.