Chi Miigwech to everyone who joined us at the pow wow! It was so nice to celebrate with so many friends and family members. Here’s to a healthy and connected rest of 2012!
Pictures taken by Gerry “Auggie” Auginash. E-mail him here: auginash612@msn.com.
Pow Wow Highlights:
- 1600 children & families celebrated their American Indian traditions
- Youth competed for ADYC’s first Youth Ambassadors Contest
- Hand Drum contestants from throughout the Midwest came to compete at our first major contest
- Hundreds of people donated to our “Families in Need Drive” providing much needed household items for parents and their children
- Youth, after months of practicing, advocated for all to hear, for chemically and tobacco free communities
- Hundreds of children, adults and elders, together, danced and sang their hearts out
Special thanks to all the businesses in our community who partnered with us and helped make this year’s Pow Wow one of the best! With you as our BUSINESS DONORS:
- 31 families went home with great prizes for themselves and their children
- And thousands of people now know that you cared enough to be a partner with this community event!
AMC Rosedale 14
Club Just Jump
Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa – Black Bear Casino Resort
Mill City Museum
Minnesota Twins
Minnesota Timberwolves
Minnesota Swarm
Pepitos Restaurant
Parkway Theater
Mall of America
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Ron & Judy Libertus – Northland Visions Native Art & Gifts
Science Museum of Minnesota
The Historic St. James Hotel in Red Wing, MN
Upper Sioux Community – Prairie’s Edge Casino Resort
June Blue
Molly Cox & Nickelodeon
Susan Jacobson
Heather Schilling Family & Honest 1 Auto Care
Donald Reyes
Violet Reyes
Pat and Myron Rosebear – Bearhawk Indian Store
Charlie Stately and Joseph Reiter – Woodland Indian Crafts
Gerald Korbel
Bob Peaslee – Creative Native Productions
Jaime Tituana
Roberto Cordova
Jim Petroff – Howlin Wolf Creations
Estella Yeung and Otomi Moon – Growing Blue Flowers and Otomi Moon
Rodney and Lupe Bercius – R & L Enterprises
Larry Street – Appaloosa Spirit Ranch
Christopher Henderson
A drug, alcohol, and smoke-free environment.
