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Ahnee! Welcome to our Guestbook. To post your message to our guestbook, simply complete and submit our webform here (all postings are subject to review before they are allowed onto this site).
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rita@gordonspark.com
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Gordon's Park
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July 29, 2007
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Hi, We just wanted to let you know that we still have some campsites available at Gordon's Park, about 25 minutes from Wiky, for the Pow Wow weekend. We can be contacted at 705-859-2470, or via email to rita@gordonspark.com and our website address is www.gordonspark.com
Thank you so much for any referrals you send our way, likewise we will be encouraging all of our guests to attend your festivities. Migweetch: |
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Leanne and Michael
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Fort Hope
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July 28, 2007
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Hey...we're coming to Wiki next week to attend the pow wow for the first time..we are looking forward to it..we hear it's a good one.
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Jaime
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Lac La Biche, Alberta
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July 17, 2007
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Originally from LLB, AB although, I live in Ottawa...met a few really cool Wiky people and decided to go check out the pow wow this year for the first time with my kids! Yay!
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Leland & Lorie Bell
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Wikwemikong & Dokis
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June 27, 2007
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We look forward to this Pow wow every year love the drumming, dancing, food, activities and the good energy that comes with it. come and visit us at Bebaminojmat Leland Bell Art gallery at 206 Eshkibok Road, just off Wikwemikong Road the next time your at the Pow wow. our phone number is 859-1880. meegwetch to all the hard work that goes into planning of this activity. Lorie Bell
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Richard Hunley
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Grand Rapids MI
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June 20, 2007
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Hi, I am the son of Barabra Trudeau. I was wondering if anybody has any information about my brother Johnny? If so could you please send it to me at mars_invaders-npl@sbcglobal.net
Thanks
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Monica Mabel Benson
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Odawa, originally from Wiky
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June 13, 2007
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Do you have a chat line right in Wiky? Mine is smilingrunningwolf@hotmail.com
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Vera Bell
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Peterborough, ON
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June 1, 2007
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| I teach the language and drumming to a group of native women. My plan was to attend the POP WOW this year with these group of people. We need resoursce were their is funding for three day trip and so forth. If anyone has information please do share we would appricate it. Maybe next year I will be able to bring these group of women to the POP WOW and visit other organization in the community. |
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Warren Peltier
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Fujian, China
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May 29, 2007
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| Sorry people, I won't be able to make it back to Wiky for the pow-wow. I'm too busy in China. I will miss all of you. Hope you all have a great time dancing and singing your hearts out. See you in 2008. |
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Peter Eshkibok
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Sault Ste. Marie
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April 23, 2007
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| Excellent Pow Wow, I look forward to it every year. |
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Andrew J. Mandamin
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Thunder Bay Ontario
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March 3, 2007
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| To Stephanie in Shoal Lake ontario, yes, there are other mandamins out there. My email is mandamin70@hotmail.com |
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Beth Waite
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bethwaite@hotmail.com
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February 25, 2007
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Greetings, I would like to introduce myself. My name is Beth Waite and I am the author of Ascending Powers. I have included in my Historical Fiction a combination of many First Nations practices in this novel. I live in rural Kawartha Lakes, Ontario, Canada.
My dearest younger sister is Ojibwa and I have spent many years involved in Native Studies, thus resulting in the novel Ascending Powers. This incredible book has not yet been released, I am waiting for this date and hope it to be within the next six weeks.
Please sign my Guest Book, this would be such an honour. I do hope that you will read my book and forward this e-mail to your community. It is my prayer that the Native community will find my writings respectable, informative and sent with love, as I have so intended.
Brightest Oceans of Blessings.
Beth Waite
author of Ascending Powers
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willy van ee mejaki
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sas van gent holland
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January 14, 2007
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| my father walter mejaki came from wikky i go to wikky again next year to visit my family and to the pow wow great pow wow migwetch |
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Peter Eshkibok
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Sault Ste. Marie
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December 11, 2006
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| Excellent Pow Wow 2006, I plan to return to next too........ |
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Terry Spanish
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Toronto
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December 1, 2006
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| I recently travelled to Wiky and I am impressed on how big the community has become. More of a culture shock than anything else. Also the shock continued with the news of people I knew are not alive any more. Saddening. I have not been to Wiky for a few years. It is time to come for a long visit.. |
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Derek Drysdale
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Calgary, Alberta
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November 29, 2006
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| I miss my friends there and the people that i know there you know who I mean am coming back there on the christmas hoildays can't wait until then. |
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Rafeena Mohammed
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Ottawa - Originally from Little Current
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November 28, 2006
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| It has been many years since I have been home but one of my fondest memories is being at the Wiky Pow Wow! I miss it, who knows, maybe I will get there for Summer 2007!. |
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Stephen Fox
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October 30, 2006
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| Please take the time to read and post this press release, as well as forward it to as many of your friends and tribal members as possible, especially regarding 11 New Mexico legislators asking President Bush, FDA Commissioner Nominee Andrew Von Eschenbach, M.D., and Health Secretary Michael Leavitt to rescind the approval for Aspartame. Please ask your tribal officials and council to do the same, as well as discuss punitive and exemplary suits against the corporations involved.
We have written repeatedly to the Prime Minister, the Governor General, and the Health Minister recommending that Canada seal its borders to aspartame products to protect Canadians health, and perhaps they would do so if you ask your Canadian readers to take the time to write to them by email. Thus, the USA will begin to comprehend the magnitude and imperatives of ending the harm done by this artificial sweetener. Thank you,
Stephen Fox,
http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2006/10/emw453464.htm
Please also see my website only through Google Scholar:
www.unitednationsundersecretarygeneralfornutrition.org
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Evan Sanipass
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Indian Island, NB
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October 26, 2006
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| I'm interested in finding some relatives. (i hear that the Shawanas are from this reserve). |
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Lisa Pelletier
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Edmonton, AB
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October 5, 2006
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Stephanie
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Shoal Lake #39 First Nation
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October 3, 2006
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| Hey There World! How is the world outside of Shoal Lake, I'm here to see if there are other Mandamin's out there besides the Kenora area, if so lets chat and find out if we are relatives and don't even know it, or how we manage to have the same last name from the the Ojibway culture. |
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Milan
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Serbia
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September 20, 2006
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Dear friends,
I'm writing you from Serbia. Few days ago I found in some magazine advertise for tea named Flor essence, it is mixture of 8 herbs: Burdock root , Sheep Sorrel,Slippery Elm, Turkish Rhubarb, Red Clover, Blessed Thistle, Kelp,Watercress. They claim that this tea is invented by Ojibwa Native Americans. I'm interested is this true. And also, is it true that this tea is so effective? And to whom I can write to find more about Flor essence?
Hope that you'll answer me.
I wish you the best
Milan
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Catharine
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Brockville, ON
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September 14, 2006
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Great website. My family, husband, kids and I attended the powpow in 2002. I was adopted in mid 1960's...birth name Recollet. I was fortunate enough to meet and develop a very positive relationship with my birth mother before she passed on. But, I have only one unanswered question. Where did the last name Recollet originate from...I know about the Recollet missionaries from the 1700-1800s. Would anyone have any further history. e-mail: aquarianship@hotmail.com. Thanks
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Tracey L. Restoule
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North Bay, ON,
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July 15, 2006
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Great info on page. I have been to the Pow-Wow in previous years and it is a proud feeling I have to be Aboriginal when I witness our heritage at any Pow-Wow - Wiki is a great gathering...hope to return soon.
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Lorna
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Red Lake, ON
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June 9, 2006
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We are coming to the pow-wow this year, my sister & my cousin & myself. It is a big year for us, my sister has not been there since we were little girls, I turn 50 & this is where I want to mark that milestone....
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Draper Family
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Please Help!
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May 11, 2006
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On May 4th, 2006, our family Tommy and Laura Draper, Spike, Cash and Kim (White Bull) Draper, Tyson and Tierra Draper lost our home in a house fire. It is thought to have been a gas leak at this point that started in the lower level of the house. At 6:15am we smelled the smoke and found the house was on fire, we had time to get Cash and Tierra to safety outside the home. Spike and Tyson used the water hoses and the irrigation hoses to try to stop the fire, the home was in total flames in about 20 minutes...we got out safely, but lost everything. Nicki (Tyson's friend) was trying to go back in and grab some of the dance regalia on the lower level, but the smoke was too bad. I was on the phone with 911 operator and unfortunately there was also another farm fire in Shiprock, NM where their crews were since the night before. They came about 45 minutes after our call...the news will say otherwise. We stood with just our clothes we slept in, me and Laura with no shoes, Tyson and Spike with work boots they found by the door. This is a devastating and unbelievable experience.
Tommy, Spike and Tyson built this home from the ground up and it was so heartbreaking to be helpless and to see them lose their home. The creator blessed us and gave us our lives.
Right now we and families members from Kirtland, Farmington, NM and Chinle, Tempe, AZ are here helping us go through the burned rubble trying to salvage anything. The Red Cross and Salvation Army are assisting us with a room and food at a local hotel until Sunday. We are not sure what plans we have after that. I would like to ask the native and non-native communities for help...anything will help us at this time. We have rec'd clothing and food donations from the local people and family. We have an account set up for cash donations at
Wells Fargo Bank
Draper Family Fire Donation Fund
ACCT #5178269519
100 E Broadway
Farmington NM 87410
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Drapers
PO Box 504
Kirtland NM 87417
Our plans are now to tear down the structure and to rebuild our home. We have been working nonstop since that morning until around midnight. We are so fortunate to have family and friends from around the country helping us with prayers and donations. We are asking the community to help us with cleanup supplies: gloves, shovels, wheelbarrels, heavy equipment for the tear down and any building supplies to rebuild our home: foundation, plumbing, electrical, lumber, concrete, windows, siding, roofing supplies, insulation. We also need food and water for the crews that are working in shifts. Also furniture, all home appliances, bathroom appliances, bedroom furniture. If you can assist us with any donations, please contact any of the following family:
Tommy and Laura Draper 505-320-9239
Spike and Kim Draper 505-330-4186
Brenda Chischilly 505-320-5188
Orlando and April Uentille 480-282-0391
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Alfred Vanderheydt
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Essex, ON
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May 5, 2006
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| We were at the Pow Wow 7 years ago and plan to return this year to show our 6 yr. old daughter. Can't wait. |
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Eugene R. Pelletier
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Blind River, ON
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May 2, 2006
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| Born in Blind River, infancy in Sagamook. My dad Patrick Norman Pelletier is from Wiki. Any cousins I've never met out there. My Grandfather is Onozene Pelletier. Gene |
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Keegan Eshkawkogan
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West Bay
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April 11, 2006
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I was just suffing the net lookin up on native traditions and found my old home towns powwow on here so I just wanted to say I'll be there
WIKY WROCKS!!!!! |
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Natalie
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Kenora
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February 24, 2006
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Thank you for having a good page, it helped me alot.
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George Czerny
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Craigleith, ON
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November 1, 2005
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Hello,
The sky is the limit when it comes to potential for developing tourism in Wiky and area. With your website and the assistance of your heritage organization, potential visitors can look forward to making holiday, or day-trip plans that will be both educational and entertaining. Keep up the good work!
Best regards,
George Czerny,
author, George's Georgian Bay |
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Patrick Sabourin (Mandamin)
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Thunder Bay, ON
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October 7, 2005
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| I'm from here but i don't really know any one any more, and i'm wondering if any one knows the mandamin family in the kaboni area and if you do please give them my email address so i can meet some of my cousins that i don't know. |
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Susann
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Switzerland
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September 1, 2005
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| some years ago we spent a wonderful time in wikwemikong and when i feel homesick i have a look at your splendid homepage. |
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Anangohns Manitowabi
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Peterborough
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August 7, 2005
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| Very Cool Page I hope to make the pow-wow next year, till next time Peace ;-) |
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Peter Eshkibok
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Sault Ste. Marie, ON
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August 5, 2005
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| Awesome Pow Wow, 2005................ |
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Herman Meuser
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Lively, ON
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August 1, 2005
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This was my first time at an event such as yours. The only word I can say is: "wow!!". What an effort and what an incredible result.
To me it was just a wonder to see all the different outfits the dancers were wearing. Then, on close-up, to find out how many hours were spent to achieve such wonderful display of colour and detail. I spoke to one of the dancers who was dancing in his second year, and wearing an impressive outfit, yet said that there are many more hours to work on it until completion.
I just got home and I am still in awe of what I have experienced at your site. This impression will have to last until next year, when I plan to take more time. Thank you so very much for your extreme effort. And, before I forget it, your announcer was A-1 and sometimes even had a funy streak.
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Connie
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Sault Ste. Marie, ON
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July 26, 2005
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| I love this web site!! I saw it advertized on TV and decided to check it out. So glad I did. I love the logo by Leland Bell. I'm planning on attending your pow wow this year, can't wait. :-) |
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Harold and Barbara Pinnance
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Walpole Island First Nation
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July 26, 2005
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| We try to make it to your pow-wow every year.It is great.Our grandchildren have started dancing and they are teaching us things I didn't know.I used to work 6 or 7 days a week and didn't have time to connect,but now I see that I've been missing a lot.This year we've been to Kettle Point,Sarnia,Six Nations and here at home.You're next.See you there. :-) |
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Joanne L. Wilton
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Edmonton
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July 25, 2005
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| This is me, Joanne and my Harry last Christmas. My mom is Bernice Peltier from Wiki.I haven't been back to the Powwow for quite some years. Maybe next year hopefully. |
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Candace
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Garden River
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July 25, 2005
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:eek: This Guest Book Is A Great Idea to have on a Website.... :eek:
I will be at the PowWow for the first time this 2005 year!! Can't wait. |
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Trappers Foods
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Ottawa
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July 25, 2005
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| Hi we will be attending your powwow 2005 this year and will be bring great Aboriginal food for all to enjoy.
Looking forward to meeting the people and having fun at the powwwow
Chech us out by doing a search for "An Aboriginal Festive Eating Experience" or Trappers Foods and Events
See you there!!
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Darryl and anna and lori
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Toronto
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July 24, 2005
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| we are so looking forward to joinging you this year. look for us near the drumming and around the crafts tables! |
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Raven King
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Tennessee
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July 22, 2005
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| Just stopped by to say hello from the Cherokee Nation. Have a wonderful Pow Wow. May the Great Spirit bless your day. I wish I could be there. |
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Susie
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England
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July 19, 2005
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We are coming over for your powwow this year.I know that it will be a tremendous experience for us.
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Brian Eyahpaise
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Sask.
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July 19, 2005
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neat idea for community web page.
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Mystique
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Wikaaay
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July 8, 2005
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Kool page, the pow wow always rocks. Im so excited I just can't hide it.. lol can't wait!! :-).
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Tina Chapman Yelloweyes
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Sydney, Australia
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June 22, 2005
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;-) Hi there just surfing the net. Trying to find my cultural roots. I was adopted when i was young. Living in Australia.Wanting to come over and visit this year, hope i can make it to your pow wow. Great web site....
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Michell
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June 21, 2005
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:-) Good information when planning a trip from southern Ontario.
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Edna
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Matach
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June 13, 2005
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:~) hi,this is my first visit to your site. wonderful place. i'm planning on visiting this year. each year i try to take the Elders' on a trip to a pow-wow. i'm hoping we will be able to attend yours. the Elders look forward to this trip each year :~).
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Alvin Matechuck
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Regina, Saskatchewan
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May 30, 2005
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I haven't been to Wiky in years and I would love to come back there for the pow wow. I stayed with Jerry Kaboni in Kaboni, they were excellent hosts and that reflects your community. I hope one day to come back for the pow wow and to see all the great people of Wikwemikong.
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Harry
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Toronto
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May 27, 2005
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I think an immersion in Native mythology is in order. I would like to see what the generation has to offer since the last time I visited the Ishkwongan. :D :D
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