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Princeton’s Roger Hughes and Yale’s Jack Siedlecki rounded out the powwow. Hughes addressed the loss of his top receiver B.J. Szymanski, who accepted a $700,000 signing bonus to join the Cincinnati Reds organization. He then threw in some classically Princetonian quip about that amount of money not fitting in a financial aid package that garnered a few laughs but didn’t move me enough to write down...
American Indian students at Harvard have also found solace in their community with each other. NAHC, the Native American student group, not only fosters camaraderie, but it is also an activist force. NAHC and HUNAP have hosted an annual powwow for the last nine years. In the past two years, Scott and NAHC have taken an active role in organizing the event, a Pan-Indian ceremonial dance festival...
This year’s powwow was held in the Quadrangle Recreational Athletic Center (QRAC) last Saturday. The event was, without a doubt, a triumph: multiple dance groups from across the country participated, and craft vendors came to peddle jewelry, carvings, books and music albums...
...powwow, an effort to increase Native visibility but also foster community development, has garnered increased support from campus initiatives each year. This year, it received sponsorship from the Undergraduate Council, the Harvard Foundation, the Harvard School of Public Health Dean’s Office, the GSE and other sources from across campus. But without exclusive recruitment and without a stronger Native studies presence, the University will only be making token gestures and continue to fail to uphold its end of a 300-year-old promise...
...five men--sturdy, with slick hair and crumpled suits--having a good rude time as two other men in velour sweatsuits, drivers or bodyguards probably, sit at a subsidiary table. They turn quiet and suspicious when a new couple, strangers, is seated across the room, then return to their powwow. On the ceiling above the men are two metal boxes with rubber knobs--devices believed to have been installed to detect electronic bugs. It's just another night at (as the menu inscription proclaims) "CasaBlanca: Where You're Treated Like Family...