Powwow is part of Nautical City Festival

6/30/2009 11:43:34 AM
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by Richard Lamb-- Advance Editor

A first-ever kind of event is planned for this year’s Nautical City Festival August 8 in Rogers City. The Mackinac Bands of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians are teaming up with the Presque Isle County Historical Museum to put on the first full-blown powwow to ever be held in northeastern Michigan. Mark Thompson, curator of the museum, said the museum is accustomed to dealing with old traditions, but this takes it to an entirely different level. The original ship Welcome, which will be represented at the festival by way of a replica, was built two years before the Declaration of Independence, but American Indian traditions predate that.


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