For the first time in three decades, a powwow is coming back to downtown Detroit.
The North American Indian Association of Detroit (NAIA) is organizing the Indigenous Peoples’ Day Pow-Wow at Hart Plaza from noon to 6 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 13 in collaboration with Southeastern Michigan Indians Inc., American Indian Health and Family Services, and the Detroit Indigenous People’s Alliance.
Travis Schuyler, program director of NAIA of Detroit, describes the return as both a revival of tradition and a homecoming for indigenous people who once marched in parades down Woodward Avenue and celebrated at Hart Plaza…