18th Annual Plains Indian Museum Pow Wow - Poster. - 1999
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Description
Poster advertising the pow wow, held in the Robbie Pow Wow Garden of the Buffalo Bill Historical Center.
Historical note:
Students of Onion Lake School, with school in background. From the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.
Historical note:
In early 1893, issues of the Wawa began including word translations and prayers in phonetic orthographies for Aboriginal languages in southwest British Columbia such as Shushwap, N'lakapamux ["Ntlakapmah" or Thompson] and Halq'emeylem [Sto:lo].