CULTURE PRIDE IN MOTION Indigenous culture shines at 44th annual powwow. With drums thundering and regalia flashing, hundreds of performers celebrated Indigenous culture in Gill Coliseum at the 44th annual Klatowa Ina CompetitionPow-Wow.TheMay20event — the first since the COVID-19 pan- demic began — was organized by the OSU Native American Student Association and the Kaku-Ixt Mana Ina Haws cultural center in collaboration with the Division of Student A"airs. Dancers competed in the Jingle,GrassDance,Women’sFancy, Men’s Fancy, Women’s Traditional andMen’sTraditional dance styles, with awards from $500 to $1,000. The spring weekend began with the cultural center’s annual salmon bake, which honors the salmon leaving fresh- water spawning grounds to return to the ocean, as well as the fish’s importance to Pacific Northwest tribes. Both events were free and open to the community. —Scholle McFarland Fall 2023 27 PHOTO BY JON BOECKENSTEDT
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