If they can do this why
can't we?
What does the BIA pride
itself at saying?
566 recognized tribes
in their Indian country, another 566 they and our government do not wish to
recognize, why are they all not holding powwows and gatherings in jails and
prisons throughout this country?
May 29--WALLA WALLA --
amid the sounds of powwow -- the drumming, the singing, the jingling of bells
that accompany a dancer's, would be unremarkable anywhere else in Indian
Country. But in the visitors' room at the Washington State Penitentiary? No
smell of wood smoke and burning sage was absent, fire is not allowed inside the
any prison, although it had all the same energy, excited greetings and he easy
laughter of a powwow on the outside.
After the inmates had
served their guests with traditional foods, Donald Carson began calling people
one by one, handing out gifts that the men had made: hand drums, beadwork,
moccasins, leather pouches.
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