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April 02, 2023 - 12:00 PM
The Okanagan Nation Alliance is hosting the return of Pow Wow Between the Lakes in Penticton this summer.
The event will be making its return in June after a three-year hiatus due to COVID, and “Celebrating Syilx culture and resilience” will be this year’s theme.
The City of Penticton will be providing in-kind support for the Four Seasons Cultural Society, which is hosting pow wow at the South Okanagan Events Centre, according to a media release from the City.
“We hope to have the involvement of all eight bands of the Okanagan Nation and participants not only from our own city and surrounding areas but across Turtle Island,” Haley Rodas, executive director of Four Seasons Cultural Society, said in the release. “Everyone is welcome to attend and come together as a community."
And Summerland helped to chip away at the $85,000 price tag with a $20,000 contribution, according to a release from the District, which says organizers have secured around half of the funding needed so far.
Summerland Mayor Doug Holmes said meaningful collaboration to support truth and reconciliation is one of his council’s key priorities.
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