Powwow finishes up Fort Belknap Native American Week activities

The powwow at Hays-Lodge Pole High School Thursday, the finale of Native American Week activities on Fort Belknap Indian Reservation, saw great success, with many schools throughout the area coming together for the event, said Ken "Tuffy" Helgeson, a language and cultural teacher at Hays-Lodge Pole

The powwow was the final scheduled event for the week, he added.

This is the first year that Hays-Lodge Pole, Harlem and Dodson schools organized, in a group effort, events throughout the week to help students understand and be immersed in Native heritage and be educated in the cultural roots o...