Post by blackcrowheart on Aug 23, 2007 11:49:03 GMT -5
Jodi Rave: Families reconnect during powwow season
Monday, August 13, 2007
"It's been 11 years since Margarita Hawley has been to the annual powwow on
Montana's Rocky Boy's Reservation.
She left Wednesday after reacquainting with friends and relatives during the
annual event near the Bear Paw Mountains. The celebration attracted some 400
dancers from across the U.S. who competed for $180,000 in prizes.
Hawley has long been part of a powwow community, with an appreciation of
dancing instilled by her father, the late Pete Hawley. Her dad always encouraged
the whole family to participate. And he routinely took his grandchildren to
powwows across the West.
“My dad said, ‘Never take them out of the powwow circuit,' †she said. “
When he got sick and died, we started doing it all ourselves.â€
The powwow season is in full swing across Indian Country, giving family
separated by distance a chance to reconnect. Margarita and her husband arrived in
Rocky Boy with their children, Ramona 17, Mario, 15, and Manny, 7."
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_Jodi Rave: Powwows power up families _
Monday, August 13, 2007
"It's been 11 years since Margarita Hawley has been to the annual powwow on
Montana's Rocky Boy's Reservation.
She left Wednesday after reacquainting with friends and relatives during the
annual event near the Bear Paw Mountains. The celebration attracted some 400
dancers from across the U.S. who competed for $180,000 in prizes.
Hawley has long been part of a powwow community, with an appreciation of
dancing instilled by her father, the late Pete Hawley. Her dad always encouraged
the whole family to participate. And he routinely took his grandchildren to
powwows across the West.
“My dad said, ‘Never take them out of the powwow circuit,' †she said. “
When he got sick and died, we started doing it all ourselves.â€
The powwow season is in full swing across Indian Country, giving family
separated by distance a chance to reconnect. Margarita and her husband arrived in
Rocky Boy with their children, Ramona 17, Mario, 15, and Manny, 7."
Get the Story:
_Jodi Rave: Powwows power up families _