Indigenous Youth Alliance Pow Wow
June 14, 2005 - 3:29pm | by Anonymous
This Pow-Wow is something that Aboriginal students from R.L.D.H.S involved with the Indigenous Youth Alliance have been planning for the past several months. It's an event that we would like to plan every year to celebrate Native pride in the community. This years focus for the Pow-Wow is Tiffany Eckley. She was involved in the IYA for the past 2 or 3 years but was seriously injured in a car accident near the Dryden area. She has come a long way since her accident and we felt that we should honour her with a Pow-Wow for her commitment to the IYA. Last year was the first pow-wow that the IYA had planned and it drew a pretty decent crowd. This year is my first year on IYA and as President so I really wanted to make Tiff proud and put on an awesome pow-wow for her. We have asked a couple of First Nations drum groups to attend from around the North West featuring Wabuskang, White Dog, Kenora and Eagle Lake to name a few drum and dance groups. There will also be workshops to attend on various subjects as well as a drum workshop where people who sign up can make their own drum! There are 6 students that make up the IYA. Linnea Keesick, Kayla Yutzy, Cheryl Hunter Reggie and P.J Bacon and myself. Shelley McKenzie of the Friendship Centre and Donna Williams Parks have been instrumental in helping us plan this event as well as offer us their support in our meetings. The Friendship Centre have also greatly contributed to the success of the IYA and I hope in the future that we can work together to strengthen and bring together our people in the North West. I'm very proud to be apart of the IYA and I think that it's an excellent group to be apart of. I hope that in the years to come the IYA will continue to help and support Aboriginal events and to raise awareness of important our culture is to us as students living off reserve. As a member of this community I think that Native culture is important to the Red Lake Districts past and is something that should be celebrated Natives and non-Natives alike.
Indigenous Youth Alliance President, Patrick Hunter
Indigenous Youth Alliance Pow Wow
at the Red Lake District High School
on June 25 and 26, 2005
Friday, June 24, 2005 at 7:00 pm
- Meet and Greet at the Red Lake Indian Friendship Centre
Saturday, June 25
10:00 Opening Ceremonies - dancing, drumming, elder teachings, drum workshop
Sunday, June 26
7:00 Sunrise Ceremony; Drum workshop; Drumming and Dancing; Elder Teachings, Pot luck Feast - bring your dish and join us.
This Pow-Wow is something that Aboriginal students from R.L.D.H.S involved with the Indigenous Youth Alliance have been planning for the past several months. It's an event that we would like to plan every year to celebrate Native pride in the community. This years focus for the Pow-Wow is Tiffany Eckley. She was involved in the IYA for the past 2 or 3 years but was seriously injured in a car accident near the Dryden area. She has come a long way since her accident and we felt that we should honour her with a Pow-Wow for her commitment to the IYA. Last year was the first pow-wow that the IYA had planned and it drew a pretty decent crowd. This year is my first year on IYA and as President so I really wanted to make Tiff proud and put on an awesome pow-wow for her. We have asked a couple of First Nations drum groups to attend from around the North West featuring Wabuskang, White Dog, Kenora and Eagle Lake to name a few drum and dance groups. There will also be workshops to attend on various subjects as well as a drum workshop where people who sign up can make their own drum! There are 6 students that make up the IYA. Linnea Keesick, Kayla Yutzy, Cheryl Hunter Reggie and P.J Bacon and myself. Shelley McKenzie of the Friendship Centre and Donna Williams Parks have been instrumental in helping us plan this event as well as offer us their support in our meetings. The Friendship Centre have also greatly contributed to the success of the IYA and I hope in the future that we can work together to strengthen and bring together our people in the North West. I'm very proud to be apart of the IYA and I think that it's an excellent group to be apart of. I hope that in the years to come the IYA will continue to help and support Aboriginal events and to raise awareness of important our culture is to us as students living off reserve. As a member of this community I think that Native culture is important to the Red Lake Districts past and is something that should be celebrated Natives and non-Natives alike.
Indigenous Youth Alliance President, Patrick Hunter