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Date Posted: 09:52:25 04/09/01 Mon
Author: Adv Reporter
Subject: EMAIL HOAX trying to stop POW WOW

E-Mail Hoax Says Powwow Off This Year

By Leslie Linthicum
Journal Staff Writer
That e-mail shooting around Indian Country that says the Gathering of Nations Powwow has been canceled is a hoax.
The powwow, April 27-28 at University Stadium in Albuquerque, is definitely not canceled. But the rumor has spread far afield, and powwow organizers want to put it to rest.
"It's on. It's happening. Nothing's changed. Please come," Gathering of Nations organizer Melonie Mathews said Thursday.
She has spent the week responding to hundreds of phone calls and e-mails in response to an e-mail sent Sunday (April Fool's Day) to members of some drum groups and others connected to the powwow.
The message referred to an Associated Press story out of Albuquerque that quoted Gathering of Nations organizer Derek Mathews as saying he had decided to not put on North America's largest powwow this year.
The AP story never existed. The AP in Albuquerque found out about the e-mail when it began receiving inquiries from Indian newspapers and radio stations asking to confirm the story, news editor Kathy McCormack said.
"It is not an AP story," she said.
Melonie and Derek Mathews learned of the hoax Monday when their voice-mail boxes were jammed with phone calls. They have gotten 75 to 100 e-mails a day.
Advance ticket sales for the powwow, which draws 3,000 dancers, about 60 drum groups and tens of thousands of spectators and culminates in the crowning of Miss Indian World, have been strong, she said

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