WINNIPEG – The Manito Ahbee Festival continues Saturday and is bringing together hundreds of Manitobans for its International Pow Wow.
The 10th annual festival will not only include a Grand Entry lead by children but a large pow wow.
A pow wow is a traditional gathering — a time for the community to come together to share song and dance. It’s sacred, but it’s also fun. Pow wows are about bringing circles of people closer to the community and to the culture.
On Saturday the festival will have special honouree and former NHL player Sheldon Kennedy present. The group will also honour those affected by the 60’s scoop.
It was called the Adopt Indian Metis program. Today it’s referred to as the ’60s Scoop.
From the 1960s to the 1980s, thousands of aboriginal children were taken from their homes by child-welfare services and placed with non-aboriginal families.
Many view the program in the same light as residential schools. Adoptees have been calling for a formal apology similar to the one given to school survivors.
In June, Manitoba became the first province to apologize for the “Adopt Indian and Metis program.”
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