Before Dania Wahwasuck was crowned the 2025-26 Miss Indian World, judges asked her what type of cookie she would choose to be.
Although silly on the surface, the answer could reveal a lot about a person. Contestants responded to impromptu questions as part of the pageant competition over the weekend.
“I had said that I would be a sugar cookie because I live every day in kindness and respect and loving and caring,” Wahwasuck said. “And even my tribe, the Prairie Band Potawatomi, one of our mottos, or you could say core values, is to live for the people but also for our ancestors and for those who live on, and so that’s what I talked about. And I felt like that’s a great embodiment of a sugar cookie.”…