Article: Mankato pow-wow controversy showing signs of reconciliation


Ojibwe News, The
10-02-1998
Mankato pow-wow controversy showing signs of reconciliation

It looks like change is brewing at the annual Mankato pow-wow, held this year at Land of Memories Park Sept. 18-120. As reported in these pages two weeks ago, Lower Sioux member Alan (Al) Eller was denied a vendor permit at the Mankato pow-wow two years in a row, and was not allowed to set up his equipment for taking pictures of pow-wow goers in traditional dress or other Native imagery.

At first, Sam Casper, president of the Mahkato Mdewakaton Association and Bev Boulin, Association member who is in charge of all vendor contracts, said they turned Eller down because he uses a computer and that's not ...

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