Ms. Jaime from Malaysia highly recommended this event to me via email. So, I decided to attend this year's powwow celebration and grabbed some friends along with me.
The festival was indeed colorful; the Native American traditional costumes, decorations and so on. It was really an eye-opener for me. I witness the original powwow drummings and dances, as well as tasting the local's food: wildrice, buffalo meat, corn bread and mas potatoes. It was my first time taking buffalo meat, tasted like beef.
Makan-makan time.
Photo with some natives.
AWAS! Sedia!
There were also booths opened all day on Saturday to showcase the local's handicrafts as well as to sell them. I was playing a hand-made snake at the video below.
Sunday: 22nd Annual Awards Banquet
I was invited to the dinner to be honored for the William M. Lindgren scholarship that I've recently received. I was very inspired listening to the speeches given as well as the words of appreciation from the recipients. I now aim to be one of the recipient before I graduate from SCSU!
Our table.
Melissa and I. Melissa is one of the 20 recipients of the Excellence in Leadership Award for 2010.
Wei Loon received the recognition from Multicultural Services Center. We did Malaysia proud! I'm glad that our nation flag is unfolded for honoring us.
Well, I had a good weekend. Looking forward to the next weekend already! Pray for a good week ahead. 22 days left to my homecoming!
