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      Abe Conklin

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      Abe Conklin, shown here with his wife Vickie at the Colonneh Lodge Fall Pow Wow, October 22, 1995.
      This photo is included in memory of Abe Conklin.

      Abraham Conklin, Ponca/Osage, was the Nuda Honga of the Ponca Society and was advisor to the Grayhorse District of the Grayhorse and Inlonshka Dancers. "Abe" Conklin started to dance when he was only two or three and became a champion Straight dancer in Oklahoma, "contesting" from 1958 to 1980. Abe did many things for many people, and his generosity and open heart will be sorely missed. He advocated that pow wows were for everyone, and that all people are related.

      "My advice to anyone who wants to learn is to come and watch. Like the old people say 'Come eat with us, come cry with us, come laugh with us, come pray with us, come dance with us. Then you will know us.' That's what I got to say to anyone interested in the ways of our people."
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