The 2012 Gathering of the Sacred Pipes Sundance at Pipestone Minnesota

On August 2nd 2012 the Mackinac Bands of Chippewa and Ottawa Indians Flag was sighted at the 22nd Annual Gathering of the Sacred Pipes Sundance / Youth & Elders Gathering at Pipestone Minnesota.

Able Cool Wind of the Bear Clan from Choctaw Nation seen here with Mackinac Bands Native Marine Veteran Flag carrier Ronald Bushnell as they proudly display the Mackinac Bands tribal flag held up in front of the Pipestone National Monument entrance sign as they attended the 2012 ceremonies.

The Sundance a very sacred and special ceremony, It just seems fitting that that kind of ceremony would be held here. It fulfills the full scope of the sacred nature of this place.

The Sundance at the Monument got underway officially with Tree Day, whereby a tree was selected and carried to the Monument site around which the dancers will carry out their ceremony. Beginning Thursday, Aug. 2, the dancers will fast from sunrise to sunset for four days, praying for the health and happiness of all living things on Mother Earth.

By Sunday, Aug. 5th , with their lips cracked from thirst, their skin burnt by the sun and their chests pierced through the flesh, the dancers will emerge from their four days of labor to begin a new life.

The community is welcome to witness the ceremony. The site can be reached by vehicle via the Monument’s north access road. At that entrance, attendees will receive a welcome pamphlet that lists Sundance protocols.

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THE MACKINAC BANDS OF OTTAWA AND CHIPPEWA INDIANS

HISTORIC POWWOW SOUTH OF THE BRIDGE - PICTURE VIDEO

Even an occasional light rain didn't chase away a much larger than expected audience at the first Mackinac Bands powwow held in Rogers City in the lower peninsula of Michigan. "Video Clip"

Mackinac Bands Below the Bridge Pow Wow

Rogers City Mi. - August 8th - Saturday @ 1 P.M.
Admission to the Pow Wow is free.

Powwow to be 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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Northern Great Lakes Indian Pow Wow

Rogers City Mi.
August 8th
Saturday @ 1 P.M.
Admission to the
Pow Wow is free.


The museum and the Mackinac Bands of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians are proud to present the first full Pow Wow to be held in Northeast Michigan, celebrating the thousands of years that the northern Lake Huron shoreline was home to bands of Native Americans. The Pow Wow will be held on the Lake Huron shore in Lakeside Park. Bring a blanket or lawn chair and join Indians from throughout Michigan and the Province of Ontario for an afternoon of drumming, dancing, singing, and storytelling.

The Pow Wow will begin at 1 p.m. with the arrival by canoe of a company of voyageurs.