Native women suing school over pow-wow

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2001

Six Native women from Canada and the United States are suing the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota for an incident at a pow-wow the school hosted.

The women are members of the Sweetgrass Road Drum Group. They traveled to the school with the intent on drumming at a two-day pow-wow held last month. The women said they were told to leave by a pow-wow organizer, ostensibly because they were female and the other drum groups were male.

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