This is the organization that arranged the big event last summer where Trisha and I participated together with two Samii friends and a Native guy from Australia. They asked Trisha to return again this summer.
Last year it was packed with Nuagers - I got one hour to talk about the book, then Trisha came on and talked about the selling of spirituality. By then quite a few guys were cheesed off and looked pretty relieved when our Nakoda friend Ian came on, dressed in his pow wow outfit - guess they were thinking "Oooh, finally...a "real ndn!"
And then he spoke for another hour about not selling sweats or trying to conduct them. So it was a very strong message to the crowd and I´ve never experienced that at any other festival in Sweden!!
Granted, there are several things I don´t go along with like the selling of those horrible statues. And I know Trisha told them to remove the info about the "shaman cards". It has probably just slipped their minds.... And there are quite a few dress-upers on the board.
We don´t work with them as I feel they are too far away from what we try to achieve. But they do give us a forum to bring out the truth and in comparison with other " Ndn organizations" in Sweden, at least this one is among the top ten....
Annika
