Mille Lac Pow Wow

This past weekend, Marc and I and a few of our friends, all headed to a near by American Indian Reservation, Mille Lac's reservation to check out their pow wow. It is a beautiful event on the shores of Mille Lac lake and very opening and welcoming to nontribal people. We went over and ate fry bread tacos (sooooooooo goood - I forgot to take a picture, I was too focused on eating the delightfulness). I attempted at getting a few photos to capture the beauty- these pictures don't do justice. [Not to forget it is sort of hard to shoot, the sun is setting, eventually drops, and everyone is moving very rapidly] It was awesome. Anyways. Here are a few pictures that are okay (some are a bit fuzzy in places, but I have short worse and I have shot better - just wanted to give y'all a glimpse into the pow wow.

Mille Lac is the home of the jingle dress

Have you ever been to a pow wow? 

How do you feel about fry bread tacos?

Did you do anything fun this weekend?

Does your area have anything fun celebrations every year?

Local Culture

     Growing up in South Dakota I was privilege to attend several Sioux and Lakota pow wows. Last weekend I googled to see what was going on in the area. I found a Ojibiwa pow wow that was open to the public, so I decided to go. If nothing else it would be a fabulous chance to see a new culture to me and to take some pictures (how can you go wrong). It was fabulous! I didn't stay for it all or get there at the beginning, it began around 1 in the afternoon and my guess is it finished long after I left at 10:30pm, darn Sunday morning preaching gets in the way of late nights on Saturday.
     This is one of the pictures I took, the colors that night were amazing on all of their costumes! It was fun to see and I marked next years on my calendar already.