The website was hosted in Time Warner's The Palace, a popular and influential chat room of the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Skawennati Tricia Fragnito (known professionally as Skawennati), one of the developers of CyberPowWow, and Jason Edward Lewis state that, "the event was successful in terms of the Aboriginal art and issues it brought into a public venue," but that, "critical dialogue was often interrupted by 'non-participants' drifting in from other chat rooms.
Eight Indigenous artists and writers customized the chat space with imagery, scripts, and a variety of "Indian" avatars.
Artists presented their work and answered questions about it from an enthusiastic audience composed largely of people from the Canadian contemporary art community.
Skawennati remarked in her curatorial essay: "Now that we have marked our territory, built a Palace and furnished it, it is time to invite in our neighbors: digital artists in the non-Native world.