Treaty 7 Powwow: Sharing Our Culture

We’ve wanted to attend a powwow for ages, but the timing and opportunity never really presented itself until this past autumn, when we finally had the honour and privilege of attending our first one.

It was a sunny, warm, perfect blue sky day when we arrived at the powwow and I immediately realized what a treat we were in for – and what a tremendous opportunity it was to capture something truly extraordinary. We took turns taking photos and I shot a few iPhone video clips I’d planned to email to a friend (how I wish now that we'd taken our video camera). In the end, the experience had such an impact on me that I decided to create a video in an attempt to convey some of the beauty, the awe, and the poignancy we experienced being at the powwow.