MTU Powwow celebrates Native American Heritage Veterans line up with flags in preparation for the Grand Entry of the fifth annual MTU Spirit of the Harvest Powwow held earlier this month in the Gates Tennis Center on the Michigan Tech campus. Not pictured, but in the background is Carole La Pointe, Native American Outreach Coordinator at Michigan Tech and organizer of the event. This is quite an effort to put this all together. Head dancers, Donald Chosa and his daughter Karlene Chosa, led many of the spiritual dances at the Powwow to celebrate Native American Heritage month. The Smokey Town Singers of Menominee were among the musical groups who participated in the Powwow.
Dancing is open to all ages.
This young dancer in his bright regalia wears a button from the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe. At center is a jingle dancer. Andy Sagutch, left, an Ojibwe artist from Toronto, shows MTU student Rob Beranek of Gladstone, Mich., how to make a dream catcher. Beranek, a third-year physics student, noted this was his first Powwow experience. Ruth Maracle, left, a member of the Mohawk Nation of the Iroquois Confederacy, discusses herbs with Nancy Gagnon, reflexotherapist, of Dollar Bay.