Hosting a Powwow within the metropolitan area of Washington, D.C. allows native residents in the highly urbanized region to have a community
space to connect with and celebrate cultures together.

Creating a space for Native American Communities to celebrate culture within the D.C-Metropolitan area is important and symbolic in many ways.
Ancestrally, the land and river systems that make up and surround the U.S Capital belongs to the Piscataway, Pamunkey, Nentego, Mattaponi,
Chickahominy, Monacan, and Powhatan Tribes. The vast waterways and highly diverse migratory wildlife in the area’s environment has allowed
local tribes to thrive here for thousands of years. The tributary systems of the Potomac and Anacostia Rivers blends into the Chesapeake Bay, the
largest estuary and watershed in the United States, spanning over six states, and cultivated trading among local tribes and with other coastal
tribes.

The converging points of the Potomac and Anacostia Rivers is where Washington, D.C was constructed; Waterfront Park is near one of the
Southern-most markers of the original planning. Despite the influence, history, contributions, innovations, and support given in what has resulted in
the modern-day U.S Capital and surrounding states, the historical erasure of native communities and exclusionary efforts from the American
narrative had already become common practice with Native Communities before the city’s establishment. Furthermore, numerous tribal
communities from other regions have come to Washington, D.C., hundreds of people, representatives, delegates, and leaders have visited, met
with, or protested the U.S Government and Policies throughout centuries and have not received, in some or total context, either widespread,
proper, or accurate inclusion inhistory nor in news coverage.