Lodge Pole's powwow returns after a year without

The Wasay Wakpa Wachi Powwow is returning to Lodge Pole Friday and Saturday after a year without it due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Wasay Wakpa Wachi Oshkaday Committee Member Don Racine said it will be a traditional, noncompetitive powwow for the Fort Belknap community and beyond.

“We keep things pretty simple, a lot of singing, a lot of dancing,” Racine said.

Grand entires for the powwow will be Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m.

He said events like this are a celebration of life and all that has happened since the last gathering, and added the lack of a powwow last year made a lot of people in the...