The Quinalt Nation: Drum & Dance

The Quinalt Nation: Drum & Dance
A Pono Project Event

Monday, November 24, 2025
At 6pm
Run time: 1.5 hours with no intermission

About the Show

Presented by ProArts Playhouse and the Kimokeo Foundation as a part of the ProArts Pono Project

ProArts is honored to welcome the Quinalt Nation to share their culture, language, and voyages through drum, dance, and talking story.

The Pono Project is supported in part by the County of Maui’s Office of Economic Development.

About the Quinalt Nation

Male drummers and singers using traditional drums. Cory Smith, George Buck, Dusty Capoeman, Muno Martin, Tyus Smith Female/singers dancers Marquel Waugh, Kamimi Papp, Mary Papp, Luvaila Smith, Shirley Mae Stafford, Emily Martin, Helen Martin, Joquina Martin. Traditional rattles.

We are among the small number of Americans who can walk the same beaches, paddle the same waters, and hunt the same lands our ancestors did centuries ago. The Quinault Indian Nation (QIN) consists of descendants of the Quinault, Queets, Quileute, Hoh, Chehalis, Chinook, and Cowlitz people.

To this day, we fish, hunt and gather from the same lands as our ancestors. Through millenia, plants have provided food, medicine, materials, and spiritual sustenance for our people. The western red cedar, the tree of life, provided logs for canoes, bark for clothing, split boards for houses, and more. We are the Canoe People, the people of the cedar tree.

We remember our past while employing modern principles in a unity that will bring hope and promise to our people now and in the future.

For more information, go to https://www.quinaultindiannation.com/

For information on the Kimokeo Foundation, go to https://kimokeofoundation.org/

ABOUT THE PONO PROJECT
The Pono Project is a series of live arts and culture events celebrating the diversity of the Maui community, promoting inclusion of marginalized persons, and educating on Maui’s history and challenges, bolstered by partnerships with other Maui nonprofits.

The Pono Project is supported in part by the County of Maui’s Office of Economic Development.The views and opinions expressed during this event do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the County of Maui’s Office of Economic Development.