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Round Dance

Article Origin

Author

Sweetgrass Staff

Volume

8

Issue

12

Year

2001

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The Native Awareness Committee at Portage College is holding a round dance to honor the college's founding Elders on Nov. 17. The evening begins at 5 p.m. at the Jubilee Hall in Lac La Biche. Gordon McGilvrey will be master of ceremonies.

The committee's job is to promote Aboriginal culture and to help non-Natives understand it. It sponsors weekly Elder visits, visits to a sweat lodge and other events.

The round dance is the committee's most prominent activity this year, and in past years it has drawn 300 to 400 people from all over Alberta and Saskatchewan.