It’s powwow season in Atlantic Canada
Have you ever been to a powwow but this summer season? Likelihood is, there’s one occurring in a group close to you.
The Atlantic Canadian powwow circuit is a collection of Indigenous-led cultural, ceremonial, and social occasions. These large, well-attended occasions have a good time Indigenous cultures, languages, music, and dance. Aggressive powwows even have giant money prizes obtainable for the most effective dancers and drummers.
After two years of being held just about because of the pandemic, powwows are lastly again in particular person. There’s one being held virtually each weekend this summer season throughout Atlantic Canada!
CBC will likely be touring to most of the powwows in Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, and New Brunswick, to satisfy folks and listen to tales from behind the scenes. What sort of preparation goes into rehearsing for a drum efficiency, or crafting stunning moccasins to promote?
Try all Atlantic Canada powwow tales right here.
To us it is necessary to teach [non-Indigenous people] of the Mi’kmaw methods. The celebrations that we have now right here on the Mawi’omi, after we do issues like that, we do not disinclude anyone outdoors. We welcome them in, you recognize. It is for everyone.– Junior Peter-Paul, an elder attending the Abegweit First Nation Powwow
The Mi’kmaw phrase for a gathering is Mawi’omi, a phrase typically used for Powwows in Atlantic Canada. They’re open to everybody.
Keep tuned for extra tales from powwows all season lengthy.
