Quebec-Kwahadi and Kossa Dancers travel from Texas to perform at CCJ'05 in Tamaracouta Scout Reserve, Quebec. The Kwahadi Dancers have their roots in Boy Scout Troop 9 in 1944, in which their Scoutmaster taught eight boys to do one dance for a campfire contest. Shortly after this first dance, they started getting invitations to perform for other groups. Besides a short period in the 1950s when the drums fell silent the Kwahadis have continued to dance and tour around the United States and overseas.

In 1952, eleven-year-old Bobby Jones learned the Taos Hoop Dance from Tony Whitecloud, the great dance champion from Taos Pueblo. Bobby soon taught other Scouts, who taught other Scouts, down to the present. The gift of one dance has impacted Scouts more than fifty years later.

Every member of the Kwahadis is an active Scout with another unit around Amerillo. The Scouts make their own costumes and carefully learn the culture so they can accurately honour the dances and the native people.

Kwahadi Dancers
Eagle Dance
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Kwahadi Dancer
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Kwahadi Dancers
Ribbon Dance
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Kwahadi Dancers
Hoop Dance
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