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All rights reserved. 1013875 File Name: 1013875_5203_DLT_GreatLakesGuide_FP_8.5inWx11inH_v3.1.indd Option: QC/QA Client: Marriott Field Marketing Media:Magazine Publication: MFM Marsha #: YAMDS-2018-CCOE Links: Fonts: Inks: Account Mgr DE_YAMDS_Exterior_SWOP.tif (CMYK; 914 ppi; Lettera Pro (Regular) Cyan Title: DLT_GreatLakesGuide_FP_8.5inWx11inH 32.8%; 173.2MB) Basic Commercial LT Com Magenta Studio Artist YAMDS_Logo_DH_white_cmyk.eps (21.15%; 2.0MB) (Light, Bold, Roman) Yellow Black Q.C. Trim: 8.5” x 11” Client Bleed: 0.5” x 0.5” Safety: 0” x 0” Artist: Lania Yu / Michael Liebergot ICC: SWOP2006_Coated3v2.icc Station: OMG-USNY-OSX-008 / Lania Yu Saved: 4-16-2018 10:53 AM Workflow: CMYK Current: 4-16-2018 10:53 AM Message from Grand Council Chief Aaniin, pride and belonging” – we are all on her legacy. Their work will be an opportunity for you I am very proud to one family after all! encourages and compels us all to to consider. I invite you to fi nd acknowledge the historic Pow wows are the favoured do better, to respect and protect out about all that you can as our milestone of the Great Lakes venue to acknowledge and Nibi—to protect our lifeline. communications team ramps Pow Wow Guide – 25 years showcase the reclamation of our The Anishinabek Nation is up their effort to inform our of which the Anishinabek Anishinaabemowin, our poised to make history citizens. Nation has been providing this Anishinabe nooswin, our yet again. Our nations On behalf of the Anishinabek annual publication! Miigwech dodems, our songs and will put to a vote the Nation Grand Council and to the Anishinabek Nation our dance. It is a great Anishinabek Nation Political Executive, I wish you all communications department time to be Anishinabe! Governance Agreement a safe and enjoyable time as you for their on-going effort and Our achievements (ANGA) in November travel throughout Anishinabek dedication in producing a top- are indeed worthy of 2019. The ANGA itself is Nation territory and beyond to notch, sought-after guide. celebration. simply a tool to get out participate and experience the The continued support and We have so much of the archaic Indian Act, wonderful hospitality of each use of this incredible guide by to be proud of. specifi cally in the area host community as they make Anishinabe people, especially There are many incredible of leadership selection and it the 2019 pow wow season the in this digital age, has led to its accomplishments and people to will help us to develop our own best ever! success over these many years. I celebrate. I would particularly forms of government according am pleased to see that the Great like to dedicate this 25 year to reclamation of our traditional See you in the circle, Lakes Pow Wow Guide remains anniversary production of the governance systems. This, with the choice publication that not Great Lakes Pow Wow Guide to the authority to determine only highlights annual Pow Wow two prominent water walkers: our citizenship and advancing celebrations, but is a source the late Grandmother Josephine Anishinabek culture and on protocols and pow wow Mandamin for her tireless language, will support the effort etiquette. This guide has grown work and commitment to the underway to promote, healthy, Glen Hare (Gwiingos) in leaps and bounds, drawing protection and survival of Nibi vibrant and thriving nations. The Grand Council Chief interest from people all over throughout the Great Lakes and Indian Act has hampered our Anishinabek Nation Turtle Island as they seek out beyond, and her great-niece, potential, has intruded in our that “experience that promotes Autumn Peltier, who is carrying families and nations. The ANGA 2019 Great Lakes Pow-Wow Guide | Page 2 Honouring Nokomis and nibi on the 25th anniversary of the Great Lakes Pow-wow Guide By Marci Becking of this year’s Pow-Wow Guide. I Celebrating 25 years of the had already assigned the feature Pow-Wow Guide makes us look to Anishinabek News Freelancer back to how it all began. In Rick Garrick who had reached June of 1994, our fi rst “Pow Wow out to Grandmother Josephine directory” was printed as one Mandamin in January when she page in the Anishinabek News. had come out of the hospital. We’re counting that as issue She replied to us both in an number one of the Great Lakes e-mail saying to reach out to her Pow-Wow Guide which evolved in early February. throughout the years to what it Rick had called me on the is today. morning of February 22. I was 1997 is the fi rst magazine-style travelling with a colleague back printed edition that is published from Toronto. Good thing she as an actual Pow-Wow Guide. was driving so I had a chance It states on the cover that it is to look at my some 80 e-mails the 3rd annual edition, so my and texts letting me know that discovery math is correct. Its our Anishinabek Nation Water insides are all black and white Commissioner, who had walked and it was 60 pages. The pages more than 10,000 kilometres are fi lled with pow-wow photos, around bodies of water all over the pow-wow listings, advertising Turtle Island, had passed into the and a lot of information on the Spirit World. Union of Ontario Indians and I told him that Josephine told other provincial territorial us already what she wanted to organization. say. Today, our Pow-Wow Guide The internet is fi lled with is not much different. With YouTube interviews and articles the rising costs of printing and where she spoke of the water Cover art by Joanne Robertson distribution, we now print 15,000 that she so dearly loved and copies and keep it at 36 pages. spoke for. There is even a book Joanne Robertson is AnishinaabeKwe and a citizen of Many people still look to the about her work and there are Atikameksheng Anishinawbek. Joanne is the author and illustrator Pow-Wow Guide as a one-stop Water Walkers who will continue of the book "The Water Walker" published by Second Story Press for listings. I know that there the work for her. in 2017. "The Water Walker" tells Nokomis Josephine Mandamin's are websites and Facebook pages It is now up to us to continue story of walking to raise awareness of our need to protect Nibi dedicated to various pow-wows the conversation about our (water) for future generations and for all life on the planet. all over Turtle Island. Still, I get precious water supply and Joanne is the founder of the Empty Glass for Water campaign calls on a regular basis asking implement measures to protect to bring attention to the drinking water crisis in Indigenous when the Pow-Wow Guide is the water for the next seven communities across Canada. She works as a research assistant coming out. generations. at the Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre and continues to I had known in January that I support the water walks through live GPS spotting to make sure wanted to use author/illustrator Marci Becking serves as the the water is safe. Joanne Robertson’s cover art of Senior Communications Offi cer For more information on the late Nokomis Josephine Mandamin The Water Walker on the front for the Anishinabek Nation. and her legacy, see Rick Garrick's story on page 9. 25th Annual Great Lakes Pow-Wow Guide e Great Lakes Pow-Wow Guide 2019 is the 25th annual directory/magazine produced by anishinabeknews. ca and published by the Anishinabek Nation communications unit. 15,000 copies are circulated and also Head O ce:Anishinabek Nation posted on issuu.com. Copies are provided at no cost to the 40 member communities of the Anishinabek Nipissing First Nation, 1 Migizii Miikan P.O. Box 711, North Bay, ON P1B 8J8 Nation. Toll free: 1-877-702-5200 We have made every attempt to ensure the accuracy of our pow-wow listings. However, some dates may Email: [email protected] change and some may contain errors. Please con rm information in advance to avoid a long drive to an empty Website: www.anishinabeknews.ca pow-wow ground. Views expressed are not necessarily the opinion or political position of the Union of Ontario Indians. No Editor: Marci Becking portion of this magazine, including advertisements, photos and other editorial content may be reproduced or Assistant Editor: Laura Barrios published in any form (electronic or print) without the written permission of anishinabeknews.ca. Ad Design: Priscilla Goulais Printing: Beatty Printing, North Bay Advertising Sales: Marci Becking Listings Coordinator: Marci Becking Chi-Miigwetch to our contributors: Cultural resources .......................................