Her dark hair in two braids that hung over either shoulder, Cheyenne “Little Moon” Langhorn waited to enter the dance circle. From the fabric draped across her back, fringes in warm colors fluttered in a gentle wind.

A white feather with a black tip affixed to the back of her head, Langhorn, 18, was the lead dancer at the 43rd annual Paumanauke Pow Wow at Tanner Park in Copiague on Saturday. The weekend-long event, which honors Native American culture, is open to dancers, drummers and merchants of all tribes.

“Since she was a baby, she’s out in the circle,” said her mother, Marcey “Tree in the Wind” Langhorn, of New Jersey. “Even with her diaper, she’d run out there and want to dance with everybody.”

The event, put on by the Paumanauke Native American Festival Inc., the Babylon Citizens

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