Powwow Drums
Native Art and Spiritual Craft
Tribal Spirit is synonymous with unique, superbly hand crafted native art that is both beautiful and functional. Our passion is to build the spiritual tools required by the First Nations community. Our specialty is powwow drums which are being played by many of the best and future best powwow drum groups all over North America. But we also make hand drums, rattles, dreamcatchers, medicine shields, staffs, fans, medicine pouches and black ash baskets. We gather wild deer and moose hides and have available deer and moose leather and raw hide.
We are Robert and Joywind, a family business working out of the Laurentian Mountains north of Montreal in Quebec, Canada. We came together nearly 20 years ago, having both experienced unique and demanding life lessons. For the past decade, we have applied our skills and dedication to building native spiritual tools and sharing on the powwow trail. Rose and her son Joshua have recently joined the team adding their passion and energy to the mix.
We have a busy schedule which includes drum making workshops, conferences, recording powwow drum groups, under the Tribal Spirit Fair Trade Music label, pounding black ash for baskets, harvesting hides in the fall and of course, traveling powwows all over north america.
Each year during hunting season we gather wild deer and moose hides from hunters who hunt for food but have no use for the skins. We collect the skins, preserve them and then process them into leather and raw hide which we use for all of our powwow drums, hand drums and leather work. We offer these wild hides to our clients/friends as both moose and deer Raw Hide and Leather. This old style recycling is the starting place for our work as it reminds us that we are connected to all things. We hope that you appreciate the “wild” nature of our work and we thank the spirits who help us.
Our Powwow Drums are visually and audibly recognizable.
We use only the thickest moose and steer hides to ensure the strongest most profound bass possible. Our solid wood frames are built with selectively cut trees, (pine, cedar, cherry and butternut) and are built for a lifetime of challenges on the powwow trail. We have been sponsors of the Gathering of Nations singing contest, the Powwow Idol competition as well as many other Powwow Drum and Hand Drum Competitions.
Congratulation to Midnight Express and Cozad Singers who won the GON singing contest this year and took home these drum!!!
We also built the First Nations Drums for the Cirque du Soleil 2010 production TOTEM.
At all times, we honor and appreciate the communities who have trusted us with the responsibility of building their sun dance and rain dance ceremonial drums.
We build Hand Drums for many different needs. As drum makers we have learned the subtile differences between the various drums required by the north american native community such as Round Dance, Women's Songs, Healing Drums, Sweat Lodge Drums etc. Feel free to ask us about their differences and about your needs.
We are committed to serving our native spiritual community with the tools of our teachings. We are careful to listen to both our elders and our clients and serve their needs by building the best and ‘cleanest’ products we can. We chose not to sell directly online because we need the personal connection with our customers. All of our product is "one of a kind" built for your needs. Please feel free to contact us for further info and prices.
Thank you Robert and Joywind
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