Together in Spirit...
A Pow-Wow is Aboriginal Peoples getting together to join in dancing, visiting, renewing old friendships and making new ones.
Pow-Wow singers are a very important part of the Pow-Wow. Without singers and the rhythm of the drum beat, there would be no dance.
Original songs were in the native languages of the singers. Songs are many and varied: fun and festive songs; war and conquest songs; honour and family songs; spiritual songs; songs of joy and songs of mourning; having your Indian name song; and so on.
Dancing has always been a very special part of the North American Indian. Most dances seen today at Pow-Wow are "social" dances which might have had different meanings in the earlier days, but have evolved through the years to the social dances of today.
Three Feathers (Dennis Gedeon)
First Nations and the War of 1812
Drew Hayden-Taylor a well known Ojibway playwright and author gives us an inside look at the Aboriginal and First Nations involvement in the War of 1812. (Source: City of Toronto)
