The University of Iowa’s powwow is returning for its 29th celebration after it was canceled last year due to fundraising challenges following the Iowa Board of Regents’ decision to prohibit UI departments from making donations to student organizations, which caused the Native American Student Association to postpone and eventually cancel last year’s powwow.
The powwow, which would have been the 30th milestone before last year’s cancellation, is scheduled for April 18 at the UI’s Field House and will feature vendors, dance and drummer groups, and a graduation ceremony for the Native American Student Association, members under the theme “Here: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow.”
“It fills me with so much gratitude for the people who have supported it so far and for the people that I know are going to support it in April,” Joe Maxwell, one of the lead organizers of the Native American Student Association, said. “It was heartbreaking having to cancel last year’s event, but the event happening is this really beautiful demonstration of Native resilience at the end of the day.”…