Schedule of Events:

August 25th. Mawio’mi at Blanch Brook Park 

(behind McDonald’s)

***please remember to bring a lawn chair and snacks/water for the day. Parking is side-street only. Seniors and people with mobility issues are encouraged to be dropped off at the Jerome M Delaney pavilion on White’s Ave. This is for “drop off only”.

1:00PM – Grand Entry

1. Flag Song (Medicine Dream Drum)
2. Post the Colors
3. Veteran’s Song (Spirit Bay Drummers)

1:30PM – Opening Prayer – Pjila’si / Welcoming and Acknowledgments

2:00PM – 2:45PM – Inter-tribal songs, dance category features, spot dances, potato dance competition, and candy dance. NAWN will be hosting children’s activities.

2:45PM-3:00PM – Story time with Len Muise

3:00PM-3:20PM – Chief Mitchell fly rod demonstration

3:05PM-3:45PM – Community Hand Drum groups to sing

3:45PM-430PM –  Kojua dances and Inter-tribal songs

4:45PM – Grand Exit (retiring the flags)

5:00PM – Final Closing Comments, and Closing Prayer

Sweetgrass Festival Community Bonfire

7:00PM-9:00PM – @ Port Harmon Beach
(Host will be Indian head chief First Nation Chief Charlie White).

*** Please remember to bring a lawn chair and a warm coat. People are invited to bring hand drums.