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COVID suspends powwow season and online

MOORHEAD, Minnesota (AP) – When Labor Day weekend arrives this year, Brenda Child will miss an occasion that has been a part of her life since her memory. She now lives most of the year in dual cities, is a professor at the University of Minnesota, but grew up in the country of Red Lake, with fond memories of the powwows. He even wrote an e-book of images for young people about powwows. “My favorite pow-wow of the year comes on Labor Day weekend, when there is a contest to make a song in Ponemah, Minnesota,” he told Minnesota Public Radio News. “Every year I take my children to Ponemah and sit there across the lake and pay attention to music. I think I’ll be really unhappy on Labor Day weekend. For children, powwows are energizing and contemplative. They communicate about music, dancing, food, visiting hours with the circle of family and friends, and time to think about parents who are no longer in the powwow. “My mom, my grandmother or my uncles who passed away, so it’s not just something I share with my kids, yet it’s a time to really immerse yourself in the Ojibwe culture,” she said. Many other people across the state spend months preparing for the powwow season, which is historically coming down right now. But COVID-19 has disappointed these plans: as states and tribal countries continue their fight against the spread of coronavirus, many of this year’s powwows have been cancelled, leaving others languishing for the community, the family circle, and the indigenous culture’s birthday component that powwows bring. “It’s really huge for our other people when we have a pow-wow, because collecting and the intelligent emotions that take place those pow-wows are something you can’t really describe,” said Gary “Rez Dawg” Jordan, who directed the pow-wow circuit when he was younger with theArray..

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