A good handful of people attended the Pilick Pride celebration in June. Aside from a BBQ and a bouncy castle for kids the organizers wanted to involve children to show them its normal to be around Pride the event had all the features of an Indigenous celebration: smudging, prayer, dancing and song.
Drumming is a way to foster and celebrate that intimate connection, bonding you to other humans and Mother Earth; the heartbeat of all nations. At the annual Sitansisk powwow in Fredericton, a drumming group all the way from South Dakota was an exercise in this connection.