The Indigenous Games will go on
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The once endangered North American Indigenous Games have been plucked from the frying pan.
"The Games are on," announced Charles Wood, chairman of the North American Indigenous Games Society, at a banquet March 24. "We have received word federal Moines are coming."
Originally budgeted at $2.3 million, the games were in danger of having insufficient funds because the federal government hadn't responded to a request for money. As a result, funds were delayed from other agencies, which required the federal government first contribute.
