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If you are a big Pow Wow goer the decision on what Pow Wow to go to this weekend is going to be tough! This coming weekend among the Pow Wows taking place are the Forest County Potawatomi 15th annual Mno Keno Ma Ge Wen Pow wow in Carter, Wisconsin, The 90th Crow Fair at Crow Agency, Montana, The 42nd Wichita Pow Wow in Anadarko, Oklahoma, and here in Minnesota there is the Red Lake Nation Fair, The Shakopee Mdewakanton Powwow in Prior Lake, Minnesota, and then there is the 41st Mille Lacs Pow Wow in Mille Lacs, Minnesota.

It must be a bummer for those students going back to Haskell Indian Nations University this weekend to miss out on those Pow Wows. We might go to the Shakopee Pow Wow this weekend. At the very least we will check out the stands and hope to get a place to sit, it is next to impossible to get a place to sit at that Pow Wow!

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The Native American author Sherman Alexie will appear tonight on the Tavis Smiley show. In this neck of the woods it is at 11:30 on Channel 17.

The Pokagon Potawatomi Four Winds Casino over in New Buffalo, Michigan will open this Thursday!

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Ojibwe Musician Annie Humphrey with John Trudell and Friends appears at the Cedar Cultural Center April 15-7:30 P.M. They will do a live recording of "Stories of Love, Courage and Sorrow."

"The Potawatomi General Council Meeting" April 21st, Mayetta, Kansas.

Potawatomi Musician Buggin Malone will be at the Fine Line Music Cafe  in Minneapolis, Minnesota- April 23.

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35th Annual Dance for Mother Earth This event expects to draw 10,000 people to Crisler Arena at the University of Michigan this weekend.

Ojibwe Author to appear at UW-S  Winona LaDuke will discuss her new book: "Recovering the Sacred." April 3rd.

American Indian Wisdom can help non-Indian veterans  "A scholar of  American Indian studies wants to see American Indian rituals inspire non-Indians to develop their own rituals to welcome home war veterans and help curb post-traumatic stress disorder among war veterans."

Ana Castillo: Reading and Signing  April 12, University of Minnesota, Campus Club, 412 Coffman Union, Minneapolis Campus. Reading and Signing 7:00 PM.