Indigenous Cultures Institute to hold annual gathering Oct. 5 & 6
In 1995, when local music legend, attorney and entrepreneur Lucky Tomblin produced the Sacred Springs Powwow in San Marcos, Native Americans in Texas knew they had a home where the culture of the First People of the Americas was welcomed, celebrated and valued. Fifteen years later, the powwow’s standard was raised again by the Indigenous Cultures Institute, when representatives from the nonprofit visited Tomblin and his wife, Becky, and asked permission to reinstate the Sacred Springs Powwow as an annual event. Now in its fourteenth year, the powwow is scheduled for Oct. 5 and 6 at the Meadows Center for Water and the Environment.
“Lucky Tomblin was a good friend to our people,” Dr. Mario Garza, the Institute’s Board of Elders Chair, said. “He and his wife immediately supported our efforts and the Tomblin family has been an abiding source of inspiration and support all these years.”
The name “Sacred Springs” was important to the Miakan-Garza Band of the Coahuiltecan people — a state-legislature- recognized tribe of Texas and founders of the Institute — because trib-
2023 Sacred Springs Powwow Grand Entry, featuring Dr. Mario Garza on right with black hat.
