30th Echoes of a Proud Nation Pow Wow Delayed One Year
Written by Paul Graif on 2 April 2020
The Committee organizing the Echoes of a Proud Nation Pow Wow in Kahnawake, made the decision to cancel the event this summer. The 30th annual event was scheduled to be held on Tekakwitha Island July 11-12th.
Lynne Norton is the secretary on the organizing committee. She says organizing at this point was nearly impossible. “Our vendors, we don’t even know if they would be able to travel by that time and even if they would have enough money to travel by that time because this is everybody’s economy for the whole summer,” Norton said. “Then you talk about that it’s just scary at this point to think about the loads of people coming in from the city. And by July does that mean that they’ll all be okay? No, it does not. We have no idea who will be coming in July. It’s just too soon.”
Norton says it hurts even further as this was slated to be the 30th edition of the Pow Wow. “This is the first year we have a bit of money and we were going to try and really entertain and have specials in there.”
