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Show All Indian Rodeo -"- WEATHER f Fair and mild High: 60' s i Low: Mid 20's No Snow I WEATHER t Fair and mild High: 60' s ' . Low: Mid 20's No Snow I Golfing on Election Day. Brigham Young University's Lamanite Generation will be featured performers Thursday and Saturday night (Nov. 4 and 6) during a break in the All-Indian World Championship Rodeo in the Salt Palace in Salt Lake City. The exciting rodeo, which brings together for the first time the best Indian cowboys and cowgirls in North America, begins Wednesday Wednes-day (Nov. 3) and ends Saturday (Nov. 6) with the crowning of the world champion. All performances perfor-mances begin at 7:30 p.m. each night. A special 2 p.m. matinee will be held Saturday. The Lamanite Generation the popular all-Indian performing troupe from BYU that has toured throughout the United States, Canada, and South America will perform during the rodeo intermission inter-mission Thursday and Saturday. A total of 105 cowboys and cowgirls will compete in bare- -back and saddle bronc riding, calf and team roping, steer wrestling, barrel racing and bull riding. For the first time ever, the event features the top two men and women who have qualified in one of the eight Indian Rodeo Association's regional rodeos based on money won in competition competi-tion this year. Contestants represent some 75 tribes such as the Sioux from the Dakotas, the Seminoles from Florida, the Yakima's and Coluil-les Coluil-les from Washington, the Black-feet Black-feet from Montana, the Navajos from Arizona, Utah, and New Mexico, and the Chocktaws and Creeks from Oklahoma. Competition at the finals will begin for all contestants at par, regardless of their winnings during the regular season. The contestants winning the largest amount during the finals rodeo will be declared the Indian world's champion cowboy. An estimated $35,000 in prize money and awards are at stake in the rodeo. Each contestant in the men's events pays a $100 entry fee for each event he has qualified to enter. Cowgirls pay a $50 entry fee in the barrel race. The entry fees are added to the prize money. Competition is expected to be keen with many notables such as Howard Hunter, a descendant of the Wounded Knee massacre nearly 100 years ago and one of the top bronc riders on the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association circuit. Other all-around all-around performers are Peter Bruised Head of Canada and Lyle Cochran of Montana, a timed-event timed-event champion. The rodeo is being held along with the National Indian Pow-Wow Pow-Wow and will inculde traditional Indian dancing during each performance. Two of rodeo's best announcers announ-cers Jay Harwood and Mel Lambert will be on hand for the four-night stand. Some of the meanest stock in the country will be provided by a dozen professional and Indian rodeo livestock contractors. Many of the animals have appeared at the national finals rodeo in Oklahoma City. Sponsored by the National Indian Cattlemen's Association, the rodeo has been designated as a national event by the American Revolution Bicentennial Admis-istration. Admis-istration. Tickets are available at the Salt Palace and all ZCMI stores at $3, $4, and $5. Children under 14 may purchase tickets at half-price for the opening night performance perfor-mance and the Saturday matinee. |