1. Adoptees/formerly fostered individuals and birth relatives are invited to gather in the auditorium on the 2nd floor of the Indian Center. There we will meet and talk with other adoptees. We will meet at 11:00 a.m. – 2 hours before the 1:00 grand entry.
2. The ceremony for adoptees/fostered individuals and others who wish to be part of the ceremony, will be sometime in the afternoon session maybe around 3:00.
3. The meeting room will be open again after the ceremony so we process and talk about the ceremony or what ever else may be on your mind.
4. After all that you can go get your dance on at the pow wow.
5. Sometime after the evening grand entry there will be an honor song for all foster/adoptive parents, their children and families.
7th Annual
Gathering For Our Children & Returning Adoptees
Pow wow
November 6, 2010
MINNEAPOLIS AMERICAN INDIAN CENTER
1530 EAST FRANKLIN AVENUE, MINNEAPOLIS, MN
(http://www.maicnet.org for directions to pow wow)
Emcee: Jerry Dearly
Arena Director: Windy Downwind
Host Drum: Oyate Teca
Co-host Drum: Healing Spirit
Gordon Weston Lodge Color Guard
1:00 p.m. Grand Entry
The Wablenica Song will be sung for those returning adoptees and fostered individuals and their families. A ceremony will be offered to heal the grief caused by separation from family and heritage.
5:30 p.m. Feast
7:00 p.m. Grand Entry
Special Honor song and recognition of Foster Children and Foster and Adoptive Families
Vendors contact Nancy Bordeaux: 612-879-1784
Free and open to the public
This pow wow is a celebration our community’s strengths. As we continue to gather and acknowledge the strengths of our families, we heal from the intergenerational trauma within our extended family systems. As our families and communities heal we are better able to adopt and foster our Native children.
Sponsored by:
Hennepin County, First Nations Orphan Association, Division of Indian Works, Indigenous Women’s Life Net, Hennepin County,
CONTACTS:
Sandra White Hawk, First Nations Orphan Association, 651-442-4872, sadoptee@yahoo.com
Tina Knafla, Hennepin Co. Children’s’ Mental Health, 612-348-9662, tina.knafla@co.hennepin.mn.us
www.wearecominghome.com