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Published August 12, 2010, 12:00 AM

Sobriety Powwow photo gallery

Approximately 700 dancers and 33 different drum groups gathered for the 32nd annual Mash-Ka-Wisen Celebration of Sobriety Powwow last weekend at the Mash-Ka-Wisen powwow grounds in Sawyer on the Fond du Lac Reservation.


Aliina Charging Hawk (Leech Lake Ojibwe) adjusts her daughter Jasmine Cloud’s royalty crown. Ivy Vainio/For the Pine Journal

  • Aliina Charging Hawk (Leech Lake Ojibwe) adjusts her daughter Jasmine Cloud’s royalty crown. Ivy Vainio/For the Pine Journal
  • Dancers in the dance arena. Ivy Vainio/For the Pine Journal
  • Sisters Emily (in green) and Riley Pohl (Red Lake Ojibwe/Ho-Chunk) pose for a picture in their new dance outfits their mother Phyllis Pohl made for them. The dresses are in the Ho-Chunk style. The Pohl family resides in Duluth.. Ivy Vainio/For the Pine Journal
  • Jasmine Cloud (Leech Lake Ojibwe and Inger Community Royalty) shares a laugh with her cousin Jade Cloud (Leech Lake Ojibwe and Sr. Leech Lake Nation Princess). Ivy Vainio/For the Pine Journal
  • Vietnam veterans Jim Northrup (Fond du Lac Ojibwe) of Sawyer and Ron Anderson (Bois Forte Ojibwe) visit with each other outside of Northrup’s canopy site.
  • Three-year-old Rizal Agaton Howes (Fond du Lac Ojibwe) of Sawyer gets a surprise in an envelope. Ivy Vainio/For the Pine Journal