Toronto’s Pow Wow
Patricia Cleveland-Peck visits an annual festival of North American history and culture.
North America's largest Aboriginal event, the Canadian Aboriginal Festival and Pow Wow takes place annually in Toronto. Pow Wows are among North America's oldest public festivals; the term was used by the East Coast tribes to describe medicine men and spiritual healers but early Europeans thought that it referred to a whole ceremony and the word passed into general usage.
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