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(Appearing Live at the Following Pow-wows)

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Rez Dog is back bigger, stronger and better than ever before ,for 2k4.  Thanks for all the support.  We look forward to seeing each and everyone of you on the Pow-wow Highway 2004.  Remember Rez Dog - On the Prowl at Pow-wows everywhere . Thanks again,

                              Rez Dog

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            2004: Rez Life

               North American Pow-wow Tour

                                        (All Dates Subject To Change)

January 3 - Oklahoma City Pow-wow Club New Years Dance - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Very nice dance.  Look forward to seeing alot of family and friends.

January 22, 23, 24 - Dakota Oyate Challenge All Indian High School Basketball Tournament - Huron, South Dakota - In Collaboration with the number 1  College of Choice Dakota State University  - Madison, South Dakota  One of the best All-Indian High School Basketball Tournaments out there.  Thanks to all, who made it happen.  DSU, DOC & REZ DOG A WINNING COMBINATION!!!

January 23 - Sinte Gleska University - Fashion Show & Pow-wow - Mission, SD What a great event!  All the dogs plan on being back for this next year. Rez Dog would like to thank Ione Quigley for all her hard work.  Also, all the models. (we couldn't have done it with out you) and Sinte Gleska University President Lionel R. Bordeaux and staff for making the Rez Dogs feel right at home.  See everyone next year.

February 13-15 - Seminole Tribal Fair - Hollywood, Florida  The dogs enjoyed a little time in the sun.  Thanks to the Seminole Tribe of Florida for all the support and for making us feel at home.  The ocean is calling my name, got to go. 

February 20-22 - Fort Yates Winter Wacipi - Prairie Knights Casino - Standing Rock Sioux Rez All the dogs made it back to the Dakotas from south Florida in one piece. Had a nice time at a home town event. But.....our own Tribal hotel should be carrying Native Naturals in their rooms - not some commercial non-Indian product! 

February 21 - Jamie Vondal-Everett - Calendar Cover Model Signing - Sky Dancer Casino - Belcourt, North Dakota Sky Dancer Casino was one of this year's sponsors of our calendar. So we brought home town honey Jamie Vondal-Everett back to meet and greet her friends and family and sign calendars. 

March 8-12 BIA Language Conference - Albuquerque, NM Thanks to everyone involved.  We always enjoy this conference.  See ya next year.

March 19-21 Denver March Pow-wow - Denver, CO You would have thought our Sweetgrass Hand & Body Lotion was gold! Everyone brought their friends back to the booth to buy up. A portion of the proceeds of our "American Indian Beauties" calendar goes to the Denver area Native American Cancer Research Corp. We presented the Denver Native American Cancer Research Corp. a check in the memory of Rita Ann McLaughlin DeHaas (Mother of Rez Dog owner Keith DeHaas.)

March 27-28 Dance for Mother Earth Pow-wow - University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Michigan As good as ever. If you didn't get your Rez Dog Michigan Phys Ed shirt, let us know, we still have a few left. We love this event - event staff does a great job. We'll be back next year.

April 2-4 UND Time out Pow-wow - University of North Dakota - Grand Forks, North Dakota Debut of Native Naturals Chokecherry Hand & Body Lotion. The "who's who" of drums in NDN country were here. Good to kick it with our homies in Nodak.

April 12 - First American Indian Girl to Feature in National Men's Magazine - And she's one of our American Indian Beauties! FHM Magazine's May Issue is out featuring our Rez Dog calendar cover model Jamie Vondal-Everett - she gets an entire page as the "Hometown Honey" for Belcourt, North Dakota!!!! Way to go Jamie, our Turtle Mountain Chippewa Babe!!!

April 16-18  18th Annual Arizona State University Spring Competition Pow-wow - Tempe, AZ 

April  21-25 Gathering of Rez Dogs Albuquerque, NM - The Rez Dog Booth was once again  located on the corner of University & Central Ave.  at New Urban Transport - Scooters and Accessories.   When the Rez Dogs are in town New Urban Transport takes care of all our Transportation needs.  Stop by Indian Country, say hi to Julie and check out some of the coolest  and most hip scooters in town.  Do check out their website.  www.newurbantransport.com  Our Native Naturals booth was set up at "The Pit" and we had the fantastic opportunity to introduce Native Naturals to a whole new audience. Great weekend!

April 26-28 Native American Business Alliance Conference - Albuquerque, NM Rez Dog was once again in attendance, one of the few chosen booths to set up. Made some good contacts, and enjoyed the topics covered at the conference. "Famous Dave" was inspiring.

May 1-2  Two Day Indian Market - Jacobson House Native Art Center - Norman, OK It is so rare that we get to set up right in the town where we live. Nice turnout. When in Norman, you can now purchase "Native Naturals - American Indian Spa Line" here at the Jacobson House Gift shop. It rained on Saturday, but the sun came out for Sunday. 

May 7-9  Comanche Little Ponies Pow-wow - Lawton, OK Happy Mother's Day! It was a hot one. We are usually in California over this time, but with high cost of overhead and gas prices, we just couldn't make our California run this year. I understand there was another fake Rez Dog vendor there. Don't buy from these jerks!!! Only purchase from authorized Rez Dog vendors - look for the Rez Dog logo on your tees. We only print on the highest quality Hanes Beefy Tees. These guys are trying to scam you, the consumer. Get their contact information from them, pass it on to us, so we can shut them down! Help Rez Dog take a bite out of crime!!

May 14-16 Tunica Biloxi Pow-wow - Marksville, LA   Rain pushed the pow-wow indoors. It seems like we are getting rained on every weekend.

May 27 - BIA - Anadarko, Oklahoma Rez Dog enjoys setting up here 3 times a year to show everyone our new tees, hoodies, ballcaps and Native Naturals. 

May 28-31 Ho-Chunk Wazijaci Memorial Pow-wow - Black River Falls, Wisconsin We love getting up to Wisconsin!

June 1 Deadline for models to apply for the 2005 American Indian Beauties calendar. Again we had nearly 100 beautiful ladies apply for the calendar. This is going to be a tough one, I assure you. Good luck to all of the applicants.

June 2-3 Sovereignty Symposium Presented by the Oklahoma Supreme Court - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Rez Dog Clothing Company Owner Keith DeHaas is a guest speaker on "Exploring Internet Resources on Indian Law." The Symposium covered some wonderful topics ranging from "Crime in Indian Country" to "Business Development Issues" to "Gaming" to "International Issues Affecting Indigenous Peoples."

June 4-6 Red Earth Festival - Oklahoma City, OK Dee Ann Alexander, head of the festival committee did a nice job and was easy to work with. But we hope someday the board governing the festival committee will be made up of Native Americans, and they will be just as gracious. Rez Dog provided the festival staff with their cool  production crew t-shirts. We had several of our beautiful calendar models at Red Earth this year signing calendars: Erika Focht, Ashley Roberts, Charleta Richey, Keli Focht, Nikki Palmer, Nicole Rodriguez and Tahnee Harjo. Nice job ladies! You truly are American Indian Beauties! We sure did miss everyone at the Alabama Coushatta - Livingston, Texas Pow-wow this year. We hoped to have two booths going, but vehicle problems didn't permit. Definitely next year we'll take it back down to Texas! Our Am. Indian Beauties calendar model Jamie Everett shot a Maxim and Bud Lite commercial this weekend in LA.

June 11-13 6th Annual Prairie Band Potawatomi Pow-wow and Celebration - Mayetta, Kansas Rain Rain go away!!

June 18-19 Future Leaders 2004 Summer Camp - Rose Bud, SD Rez Dog Clothing Company Owner Keith DeHaas is guest speaker this week.

June 20-23 National Congress of American Indians Mid-Year Session - Mohegan Sun - Uncasville, CT Rez Dog Clothing Company will have our booth set up at the trade show again this session and look forward to visiting with our terrific, hard working native leaders.

July 2-4 Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate 137th Annual Wacipi - Agency Villiage, SD

July 10-11 Thunder Falls Pow-wow - Niagra Falls, New York

July 14-17 Choctaw Tribal Fair - Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, Choctaw, MS

July 23-25 Indian Hills Pow-wow - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

July 30 - August 1 Kihekah Steh Pow-wow - Skiatook, Oklahoma

August 1-5 The Girls of Rez Dog Clothing Company Calendar Shoot 2005!!

August 6-8 19th Annual Little Elk's Retreat Pow-wow - Mount Pleasant, Michigan

August 13-15 IICOT Tulsa, Oklahoma

August 20-22 Shakokee Mdewakanton Sioux Community Pow-wow - Prior Lake, MN

August 26-29 Schemitzun - Mashantucket, Connecticut

Sorry Gang, we've been out on the pow-wow highway and haven't had the chance to get this updated. We'll get to it as soon as possible. Thank you for your patience.

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            2003: On The Prowl!

               North American Pow-wow Tour

                                        (All Dates Subject To Change)

January 4 - Oklahoma City Pow-wow Club New Years Dance - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma A great start to the Rez Dog new year.  Rez Dog, Old Dog, Nappy Dog, Lil Dog and Diva Dog all in the house!! The dance had a great turnout and was a terrific success, as usual. We always go to and enjoy this one. See you next year.

January 16-19 Rez Dog Rodeo Team Member  Tommy Apala qualifies for IFR (International Finals Rodeo) 2003 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma  Congratulations Tommy for a great year!  Tommy is sitting 9th in the world going into the finals.  We were very proud of Tommy. 

January 18-19 Royal Valley High School Native American Club Pow-wow - Hoyt, KS Real nice pow-wow. Rez Dog was pleasantly surprised with this event. Our first time here and we'll be back. 

January 24-26 Benefit Pow-wow - Waco, Texas Nice drive south. Enjoyed the people - made some new friends.

January 29, 30, 31 and Feb. 1 Dakota Oyate Challenge All Indian High School Basketball Tournament - Huron, South Dakota - In Collaboration with the number 1  College of Choice Dakota State University  - Madison, South Dakota Unbelievable Event!!!! Old Dog and Rez Dog were treated to something very special this weekend. Steve Martin from DSU did an outstanding job representing the #1 college of choice. DSU's involvement was unprecedented!! Rez Dog looks forward to working with the Oyate Challenge and DSU again next year. Rez Dog gives this event 2 paws way up!!!!

February 6-9 Seminole Tribal Fair - Hollywood, FL Many thanks to our Seminole Brethren down south. Outstanding once again. This is another one of our favorite events of the year and a nice way to get the pow-wow season started. Sunny Florida was 80 degrees - the dogs had to shed their winter coats from the week before in South Dakota. Buster and staff did a great job keeping everything rolling smooth. See everybody next year - we'll be sure to stock up on your favorite Rez Dog stuff. Meredith Koenig - our Miss February calendar model signed at this event. Lucky were the dogs that got to meet her!!!

February 14-15 Florida State University Pow-wow - Tallahassee, FL The dogs had a nice time. This was the first year for this event - look for it to grow in the future. Much props to the Native American Student Union for all their hard work. While Rez Dog was at this event, our Rez Dog Rodeo Team member Tess Ducheneaux was busy winning the Barrel Racing event at the rodeo in Brighton, Florida. Turn and Burn! Great job, Tess!

February 21-23 Fort Yates Winter Wacipi - Prairie Knights Casino - Standing Rock Sioux Rez  Rez Dog, Old Dog and Diva Dog headed up north - was Florida getting a bit too warm for our heavy coats?? Nodak was COOOOLLLLLDDDD!!!!! Spent time with family and friends. Lucky dogs got their calendar signed by Ampah DeHaas - our Miss January calendar model from Standing Rock. 

March 2  Coronation Banquet and Fundraiser for Tahnee Marie Harjo, Miss Indian Rodeo America and crowning of 2003 Rez Dog Rodeo Team Queen Shatona Rene Bittle - Cattlemen's Steak House Banquet Room - Stockyards, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Great turn-out. Thanks to all who came out to support Tahnee and help her raise funds for her 2003 tour as Miss Indian Rodeo America. 

March 3-6  Journey Home Language and Cultural Preservation Conference Symposium II - Sponsored by Office of Indian Education Programs - Bureau of Indian Affairs - Downtown Hilton Hotel and Towers- Minneapolis, MN Nice conference. Thanks for all your support twin cities!

March 7-9 March Madness Ho-Chunk Basketball Tourney - Wellness Center - Baraboo, Wisconsin Rez Dog is pumped to be in Wisconsin.  Looking forward to a great tournament and hanging out with our commodity cheese-head brothers and sisters. The Dogs are already popping cheese curds faster than scooby snacks! Zoyks!! (Go Iron Five!)

March 21-23 Denver March Pow-wow - Denver, CO Thanks so much to Grace and Ken for all of your hard work on this event! The snow kept a few people away, but not the dogs!! Adoesha Bennett, our September calendar model was there signing autographs. Great job Adoesha!! She is soooo friendly...so guys....when you get a chance to meet her....take advantage of it. She was great!!!!

We did have a bit of controversy at this event, however...

For the last year, Rez Dog has been receiving calls and e-mails about someone on the west coast printing bootleg, knock-off Rez Dog apparel. Apparently two companies - one in California and one in Washington. Shirts and sweatshirts with our Federally Trademarked Rez Dog on them. No one could tell us, however the name of the company, or who was doing the printing. Well..... they showed up at Denver March....and put out their fake Rez Dog apparel on their table. Shame on them!!! In Colorado, that's a felony offense to violate someone's trademark. Not cool!!!!! 

So, consumer beware....A gentlemen named Chris LaMarr from a Record company "WithOut Rezervation" has been selling our trademarked Rez Dog apparel and profiting on our name and reputation without authorization or permission. He says he didn't know we had a trademark. Ignorance of the law is not a valid defense. Sorry, councilor, but the "I didn't know" defense isn't going to hold up in court! 

It takes two minutes to look up any trademark on the US Patent and Trademark website. Rez Dog does that before we print any design to protect our company. We have a responsibility to you, our valued consumer to do that. Any printer does and should check that database before he goes and prints a design to verify that someone doesn't already have that trademark. So buyer....beware....please don't buy any unauthorized Rez Dog merchandise from this or any other vendor.  If you should see anyone at a pow-wow selling Rez Dog merchandise, call us immediately at 405-217-8340 and if they are an unauthorized Rez Dog vendor, we will notify the proper authorities. If it results in their arrest and the authorities pulling their bogus Rez Dog merchandise, we will send you a free hoody of your choice or 4 free Rez Dog tees! Help Rez Dog take a bite out of crime! 

March 28, 29, 30 -* REZ DOG SPONSORS MAJOR WOMEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT *- USD#430 I.P.E.C. Rez Dog Clothing Company and NDNSports.com  present: 1st Annual Northeast Kansas - Midwest Native American Women's Basketball Championships Double Elimination Tournament - Horton, Kansas  Contact Info.  Arlan Whitebird after 6pm 785-486-2303 work day 785-486-2131 E-mail adwhitebird@yahoo.com  Dr. Steven Davies am wk day 785-486-2611 USD#430 South Brown County

April 4 - Screening of the film "Skins" Directed by Chris Eyre, who appeared in person and presented his perspective on the film and the portrayal of Native Americans in mainstream Hollywood films. 7:00 PM University of Oklahoma, 102 Nielsen Hall, 440 West Brooks Street, Norman, OK Mary DeHaas attended the screening and reception. Great turn out. They had a full house to see "Skins" and hear Chris Eyre speak afterward. It was a treat to have him sign a poster to Rez Dog. Elaine Miles is wearing our "Rez Life" olde english shirt in one of the scenes. The video and DVD are out now, so be sure to go and rent "Skins" at your local Blockbuster Video and support our Indian directors and films.

April 4-6 Dance for Mother Earth Pow-wow - University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, MI Awesome dance! Old Dog and Rez Dog met some cool interesting people and can't wait to go back. This is a "don't miss" dance!!! Staff was great, everything ran smooth with no snags....well....maybe a FEW SNAGS, after all...snagin at the nine is priceless!

April 11-13 OU Pow-wow - University of Oklahoma - Norman, OK Head lady dancer Toni Lee Tsatoke, our March calendar model, did a super job. Nothing like chewing on a bone in the dog's back yard.

April 18-20 ASU's 17th Annual Spring Competition Pow-wow 2003 - Tempe, AZ Calendar models Liv and Michelle were on hand to sign autographs. Great weather. Excellent people and booth set-up. "Bear" was an honorary Rez Dog. Old Dog & Rez Dog used to live in AZ - got to see old friends and neighbors George and Dottie. And we can't forget our little Julie!!!!

April 24- 26 Gathering of Rez Dogs, Albuquerque, NM Stop by and get some doggy snacks. We are NOT at the "pit". We  hosted a hospitality room in conjunction with Two Worlds Visions Clothing. Our Hospitality Room was located at the "Hawthorne Inn and Suites" at Gibson and University Ave SE (just south of the PIT). Rez Dog and Two Worlds ran shuttles back and forth from the Hospitality Room to the pit...so get on board the Rez Dog Express to hook up with the bomb gear!

Friday & Saturday: Rez Dog was kickin' it with Steve Montgomery at University Pawn on the corner of University and Central. Be sure to stop in anytime and say Hi to Steve and hook up with some cool stuff!!! When Rez Dog is in town, Rez Dog shops University Pawn for all of his 49 needs. Be sure and catch all the dogs next year at the "Gathering of Rez Dogs" same place, same time!

May 3-4 18th Annual UCLA Pow-wow - UCLA Campus, Los Angeles, CA  The rains came and they didn't stop.  Dance got cancelled. We should have checked the forecast before hitting the road.  Long, long drive from Norman, OK to Los Angeles, CA and not getting a chance to make one single sale.  We thought the dance would be rain or shine. (Pow-wow committee should always have an alternate indoor facility to guard against the weather.)  Believe me, the dogs will study the forecast real hard next year!  But you know we had to spend some time on the sunset strip... it was actually nice to have a weekend off - first one in months. So we hit the Roxy, the House of Blues & The Viper Room. Fun!

May 9-11 The 32nd Annual Stanford Pow-wow - Palo Alto, CA Great show. Nice to be back in California. Thanks to the pow-wow committee for all of your hard work and dedication. It made this a wonderful event. We look forward to this one every year. A big "Happy Mother's Day" to all of our Moms who stand behind us, nurture us and love us - especially to our Mom - Edna Boardman in Bismarck, North Dakota. Rez Dog wouldn't exist without her help, love and support!!!

May 16-18 DeAnza College Pow-wow - Cupertino, CA  Nice dance, nice setting. Good booth location. Good to see a lot of friends and Rez Dog supporters. Native Naturals' new Essential Oils, Fragrance Oils and Massage Oils were a big hit with the California ladies!!! Went to the famous Fillmore in San Francisco to see folk rock singer/songwriter Dar Williams. You may remember her hit "Road Buddy" off of the Smoke Signals soundtrack. Cool chick! We hooked her up with a Rez Dog "On the Prowl" hoody after the show. Check her out in concert if you get the chance. 

May 24-26 Ho-Chunk Wazijaci Memorial Pow-Wow - Black River Falls, WI  Great Dance and turn out.  The dogs had the best time in Ho-Chunk country and were welcomed with open arms.  Perfect weather, perfect pow-wow and perfect booth location.  It doesn't get any better than this!!!  The dogs met some really nice people and we hope to get back soon.  Thanks to one and all for the support and great weekend. (Try to make it to "The Airport" for the nine next time.  Hee Hee Hee!!!)

June 6-7 35th Annual Alabama-Coushatta Pow Wow - Livingston, TX  Lil Dog, Rez Dog and Old Dog headed to South Texas. Three generations of dogs doing what they love. Had a great booth location. Enjoyed visits from some cuties to the booth and a cool breeze in their hair. Thanks to Crystal and everyone involved for making this a weekend to remember. Thanks for the free meals, as well.  We definitely will be back!!!! Hope you got your official Alabama Coushatta pow-wow t-shirt - printed by Rez Dog Clothing Company - it even had our logo on the back. Very cool!! We appreciate all of the love and support we received in Texas.

June 13-15 5th Annual Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation Pow wow Celebration - Mayetta, KS Great dance. One of the best pow-wow ground layouts we have ever seen, and we've seen em all! Thanks for the great location overlooking the pow-wow arena.

June 20-22 12th Annual Grand Celebration - Hinckley, MN The dogs made it North to Hinkley, so where were the rest of you???? Crowd just wasn't here this year. 

June 21  Rez Dog Co-Sponsors The 2nd Annual Native American All-Star Football Game - Lawrence, KS at Haskell Memorial Stadium - The nations top Native American High School seniors will go head-to-head in a East vs. West match up. The athletes have been picked, the coaches are ready and with the game under the new direction of John Harjo (ndnsports.com co-founder) we expect this to be even bigger and better than last year's game. Look for the Rez Dog booth and get your official Rez Dog All-Star Football Game shirt!!! For more info go to www.ndnsports.com.

June 27-29  1st Annual Camel Rock Casino Pow Wow - Santa Fe, New Mexico Dust storm got the best of the dogs at this event. We're still shaking the dirt from our coats. Rez Dog booth set up wasn't built to withstand gale force winds in the desert. Nice pow-wow for the dancers and the crowd under the big top, vendors were left out on their own. It would have been nice to have a big top for the vendors as well.

July 3-6  131st Annual Quapaw Pow-wow - Beaver Springs Park - 2.5 miles east of Quapaw, Oklahoma Old Dog and Anne Marie did this event. Had a nice visit with some old friends.

July 5-6 Pawnee Pow-wow - Pawnee, OK Good to be back at Pawnee, OK.  The dogs had a great booth location and the crowd seems to get bigger and bigger.  Thanks for all the support Pawnee.  See ya next year

July 11-13 38th Annual Sac & Fox Pow Wow - Stroud, OK A good time is always had by all the dogs in Stroud.  Thanks again for the great booth setup.  Dance was as big as we have ever seen.  Won't miss this one next year.  Thanks to the Sac &Fox Nation.

July 18-20 Otoe Pow-wow & Encampment - Red Rock, OK Good to stay close to home.  Old dog took care of the annual encampment.  

July 25-27 Indian Hills Pow-wow - Oklahoma City, OK Rez Dog and crew had a great time.  The dance was very good and the crowds were nice.  The dogs were treated like family.  Thanks for everything.  See everyone next year.

August 1-3 19th Annual Little Elk's Retreat Pow Wow - Mount Pleasant, MI Very Nice! Rez Dog and crew had a great weekend.  First time for the dogs to visit Mount Pleasant, but it won't be our last.  If you want Rez Dog in the Casino gift shop, let the powers at be know.  Tell them "I WANT MY REZ DOG".   See everybody next year.

August 8-10 IICOT - Tulsa, OK Nothing like a climate controlled Pow-wow in August in Oklahoma.  Another great dance.  Love the new floor plan the committee had this year.  Hope everything stays the same.  We absolutely love our Rez Dog corner. We'll be back.

August 15-17 Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community Wacipi - Prior Lake, MN One of our favorites.  We look forward to this dance every year.  You just can't find anything wrong with this dance.  Pow-wow was great, vendor setup was great, the whole thing was simply great.  See everyone next year.

August 21-24 Schemitzun 2003 - Feast of Green Corn and Dance - North Stonington, CT Another one of our favorites.  The dogs had a blast.  We always look forward to this dance.  One of the  biggest and best.  Weather was beautiful and the crowds were huge.  See ya same place same time next year.

August 29-31 Cherokee National Holiday - Tahlequah, OK - Rez Dog set up at the Cherokee Heritage Museum. Good crowd on hand even though the thunder clouds were lurking overhead.  Thanks for the support.

September 4-7 34th Annual United Tribes International Pow Wow - Bismarck, ND Always look forward to getting back to tribes.  Nice to see all of our family.  Hope everyone had as much fun as we did.  This dance is already on our next years schedule.  Thanks ND.

September 15-20 Djusa Indianmuseum of Sweden Award of Excellence presented to Keith DeHaas in Dala Husby, Sweden

September 20 Workshop on the Modern American Indian presented by Rez Dog Clothing Company - Dala Husby, Sweden

September 26-28 Comanche Pow-wow - Lawton, OK A good dance.  Rez Dog will make sure to get to this one very early next year.  Turns out the early dog gets to choose if they want to be in the grass or in the powder fine dust.  You know all dogs take care of their business in the grass.  Rez Dog looks forward to seeing all of our Commanche friends and family.  See ya'll next year.

October 3-4 - Tenth Annual Grand Pow-wow - Kinder, Louisiana  Nothing but the best!  This dance is one all the dogs look forward to every year.  You know Cajun is Rez Dog's favorite kind of food.  When we get to Cajun country the diet we try to stay on goes out the window.  Crawfish Etoufee, Jambalya, and Red Beans and Rice, yum, yum!  Look out and get out of our way.  This by the way is our number 1 Casino Buffet in Indian Country.  Thanks Coushatta Tribe of LA for keeping it real.  See ya real soon.

October 8 - The Girls of Rez Dog Clothing Company 2004 - American Indian Beauties Calendar Debut - Lucky Star Casino - Concho, OK Lucky dogs got to meet 11 of the 12 models of the only all-American Indian swimsuit calendar!!! It poured down rain tonight, so if you couldn't make it out, we still have some signed calendars, so get your orders in early.

October 10-12 - Black Hills Pow-wow - Rapid City, SD We look forward to coming to this event every year. One of our favorite dances. Great pow-wow, great dance, great turnout, great booth location.  Everything was great EXCEPT..... for the attack from our neighbors to the left...Native Voice Newspaper. Lise King, the editor, (a white Jewish woman from New York married to Frank King, Sioux, from South Dakota) came up to the booth, looked through the calendar and started to attack our beautiful models as "bad women" who were "peddling their flesh" etc.... Rez Dog leaped to the defense of our models and told her "no, these women are all educated - beauty as well as brains - and are all role models in their communities." She jumped on the "role models" defense statement and decided to write an entire article laced with BS and lies about our company. She said in her article that we were nothing but a "ghetto gangster company selling pornography and marketing and advertising it as role models for our young Native girls." What a bunch of BS!!!!! We have never marketed our calendar as the "role models for our young Native girls" calendar. We have always marketed our calendar to consenting adults as the "only all-American Indian swimsuit calendar - American Indian Beauties." PERIOD. Has anyone ever even heard of this newspaper? The National Enquirer of Indian country! So much for this Indian company EVER doing any kind of business with them. They just wrote an article destroying another Indian apparel company "Native Pride." Seeing a trend here???? Rez Dog was in the middle of a conversation with Indian Director Chris Eyre, when they were rudely interrupted by Lise King. She interrupted and pushed herself in the middle of them in the middle of their conversation and started harping about whether or not Rez Dog has bikinis for sale, and why are we selling a swimsuit calendar when we don't sell bikinis. (As if Sports Illustrated or the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders sell bikinis either!)  If these people were taking care of their own business, minding their own business, they wouldn't have time to critique our business.  Rez Dog goes on record to say we will not have anything to do with this newspaper.  If this can happen to us, it can happen to any American Indian business.

Click here to read the response we sent to Native Voice (That they refused to print) .

RESPONSE TO NATIVE VOICE

Reminds me of another non-Indian who came riding into Indian country on his pompous high horse... General George Armstrong Custer...and look what Indian country did to him!!!

October 17-19 - Indian National Finals Rodeo - Come out and support Tess Ducheneaux and Shireen Ducheneaux as they compete for the Rez Dog Rodeo Team. 

November 1-5  NIEA 34TH ANNUAL CONVENTION - Greensboro, NC Got it bad, got it bad, got it bad... I'm hot for teacher!!!! We always look forward to being here at this event. Rez Dog printed the volunteer tees and embroidered denim shirts this year. Great to have Tvhokne Harjo at the booth signing the new 2004 calendars. Great to see old friends and family. Not very often the dogs get to kick it in North Carolina. Beautiful country! Get your "Will Teach for Frybread" shirts while they last! Class Dismissed!

November 16-21 National Congress of American Indians 60th ANNUAL CONVENTION - Albuquerque, NM   NCAI 2003 was pretty cool.  The first few days went great. The dogs got to see alot of old friends and family. The forth day, along comes Lise King again from the Native Voice Newspaper causing yet another one of her famous scenes. And what a scene this one was!!! To show we have a sense of humor about our swimsuit calendar - we made up a "censored" version. We drew burkas (the now infamous long flowing black veils, made famous by the Taliban's stringent regime) around all of our swimsuit models, so just their eyes showed. And set up the censored version of our calendar along with a sign that said "Censored Version of The Girls of Rez Dog Clothing Company 2004 American Indian Beauties Calendar for Lise King, The Native Voice Newspaper, The Taliban, and anyone else trying to keep our women down." It got quite a laugh from people, who understood and appreciated our humor. 

Lise King, however, wasn't one of those people. She stormed into our booth full of customers, lunged at Kasey Lawrence, one of our workers and stole the calendar out of our booth, ripped our sign down, vandalizing our booth, and raced off down the trade show floor. Mary DeHaas ran after her to retrieve our stolen merchandise, but Lise King would not return it, and started screaming obscenities to Mary. She kept screaming at Mary on the trade show floor, actually calling her "chicken shit" about 10 times. She screamed and ranted that she was going to sue Rez Dog Clothing Company for slander for putting our censored version of the calendar up with a sign that mentioned her name. So Mary told her that she was going to counter sue for Native Voice printing our copy written pictures in their paper without our permission, and for liable for printing that we are gang affiliated and producing pornography.  It got ugly!!!  Meanwhile, we sent one of our employees to flag down the Albuquerque PD so we could have her arrested for shoplifting. Keith DeHaas appeared and finally was able to get our stolen calendar back from her.

NCAI Security was called to the trade show floor to separate the parties and escort Ms. King out of the building. Keith and Mary kept saying in a calm manner that they would like to take this elsewhere and act like adults, but Ms. King ranted on that she wasn't going to move that she wanted everyone to hear what she had to say about Rez Dog Clothing Company!

By the end of that hour, my wife Mary was in tears. What a bully. What an unnecessary show Lise King put on. This is a beautiful, classy calendar, produced by a female staff, to promote our beautiful Indian women, and to raise money for Native American Cancer Research. Lise King would have her readers believe that it is pornographic, even though everyone is completely clothed in swimwear.

Rez Dog is trying to secure the surveillance tape from the building that day. As soon as we secure the video we will run a streaming video at our website.  See all the lunacy first hand.

November 22 AISES Pow-wow - Albuquerque, NM Nice one day dance.  The dogs had a great time.  I don't know the next time we'll set up at a AISES pow wow but we look forward to it.  We realize the Vendor coordinator is a volunteer position, but the vendor coordinator still needs to treat all vendors fairly and not just give special treatment and consideration to "celebrity" vendors.   I hope vendor coordinators in the future will be ethical and fair to all!

November 29 Alabama Coushatta Christmas Pow-wow The dance was cancelled due to a death in the tribe.  The Rez Dog Booth was set up at the Shell Station.  Thanks for all the support.  We love getting back to Livingston to see our friends.

December 6 IICOT Christmas Pow-wow  -  Claremore, OK  The Sooner football team was playing in the Big 12 Championship game.  That's where everyone was.  See ya next year.

December 10 BIA Area Office  -  Anadarko, OK  10am to 3pm  One of our favorite stops along the way.  Thanks for all of your continued support.

December 31 Sobriety Pow-wow  - State Fairgrounds -  Oklahoma City, OK We look forward to this hometown dance every year. It never disappoints. Thanks to Charleta Richey, our Miss December for coming out and signing autographs. 

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