Steve Kinder to serve as Master of Ceremonies at Coffeyville Powwow 

Steve Kinder of Peoria and Wea descent, will once again serve as emcee at the 15^th Annual Coffeyville Gathering and Indian Art Market slated for April 18-19.  Kinder has been employed since 1988 with the Division of Continuing Education at the University of Kansas in Lawrence.  He worked for many years as a project manager and desktop publishing specialist for print publications before becoming a web developer and managing the KU Continuing Education web site and other University web projects.  Prior to KU, Kinder taught Journalism at Bacone College in Muskogee, Okla. for seven years.  He also served as the public information officer at Bacone.  While at the College he was one of the faculty sponsors for the Bacone Indian Club.  Kinder grew up in Quapaw and attended school there, graduating from Quapaw High School in 1974.  He receive an Associate of Arts degree from Northeastern A&M College in Miami in 1976 and holds a Bachelors of Arts in Journalism and a Masters Degree in Junior College Teaching from Northeastern State University in Tahlequah.  Kinder was one of the original members of the Intertribal Songchiefs, a northeastern Oklahoma drum group.  He is a member of the Northeastern Oklahoma Tia Piah Society.  Over the years he has served as emcee, Head Singer and Head Dancer at a number of powwows.  He is the son of the late Billy Quinn and Helen Skye Kinder of Quapaw, Okla.  His paternal grandparents were William Blake and Ola Kinder of Hockerville, Okla. and his maternal grandparents were Amos and Jessie Skye of Baxter Springs, Kan.  Steve married Peggy Hancock, a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, in 1983.  They live in Gladstone, Mo., a suburb of Kansas City and are the proud parents of twin boys, William and Joseph, 15. 

The Coffeyville Gathering and Indian Art Market begins on Friday, April 18 with a Stomp Dance from 7-11 p.m.  The event continues on Saturday, April 19 with a Gourd Dance and Powwow starting at 3 p.m.  All events are held in the Nellis Gym of Coffeyville Community College (CCC) at 604 W. 11 St. (Hwy. 166) in Coffeyville, Kan.  Vendor space is free with a donation.  The Gathering is presented by the CCC Native American Leadership Association and the Coffeyville Public Schools Title VIII and JOM Indian Education programs.  Coffeyville Indian Education is funded by two federal grants: Office of Indian Education for $84,101 and Johnson-O'Malley Cherokee Nation Co-Partner Program for $8,500.