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ASCSU allocates more than $19,000 to pow-wow
Madeline Novey
Issue date: 10/9/08 Section: News
The Associated Students of CSU approved to pay for a pow-wow and other Native American Month events in November by passing a bill that allocated of $19,142.40 from the Student Funding Board to the CSU American Indian Science and Engineering Society.
Pow-wows are meetings of Native Americans to celebrate centuries of culture and spirituality.
Initially, members of the ASCSU Senate opposed the bill because of its high price, and some were concerned that the event expense was too high in comparison to the number of pow-wow attendants in past years.
However, after lengthy debate and consideration, the bill passed 15-2.
The money was allocated by the Student Funding Board, a financial board of ASCSU responsible for the allocation of $175,000 to student organizations for events they want to provide on campus.
The Event
Officials in AISES said that the goal of the all-day event is to promote diversity and awareness of the Native American population at CSU and educate people on the Native American culture.
AISES collaborated with Native American Student Services and the Native American Student Association to plan the pow-wow and a variety of events included under the umbrella of Native American Month.
The pow-wow, which will be held in the Lory Student Center Main Ballroom on Nov. 1, will feature Young Bird, a Grammy-nominated drummer group from Oklahoma. Other drummers from Minnesota, Arizona and Colorado will perform.
The event will kickoff with a traditional Native American Gourd Dance that originated with the Kiowa tribe.
Last year, about 400 students, Fort Collins and Denver community members attended the event, compared with the 1,000 person-attendance that AISES estimated to attend this November.
AISES officials said that the event will bring people from Native American reservations in Wyoming, South Dakota and New Mexico. They also said that they were excited to bring the CSU, Fort Collins, Denver and reservation communities together.
Pow-wows are meetings of Native Americans to celebrate centuries of culture and spirituality.
Initially, members of the ASCSU Senate opposed the bill because of its high price, and some were concerned that the event expense was too high in comparison to the number of pow-wow attendants in past years.
However, after lengthy debate and consideration, the bill passed 15-2.
The money was allocated by the Student Funding Board, a financial board of ASCSU responsible for the allocation of $175,000 to student organizations for events they want to provide on campus.
The Event
Officials in AISES said that the goal of the all-day event is to promote diversity and awareness of the Native American population at CSU and educate people on the Native American culture.
AISES collaborated with Native American Student Services and the Native American Student Association to plan the pow-wow and a variety of events included under the umbrella of Native American Month.
The pow-wow, which will be held in the Lory Student Center Main Ballroom on Nov. 1, will feature Young Bird, a Grammy-nominated drummer group from Oklahoma. Other drummers from Minnesota, Arizona and Colorado will perform.
The event will kickoff with a traditional Native American Gourd Dance that originated with the Kiowa tribe.
Last year, about 400 students, Fort Collins and Denver community members attended the event, compared with the 1,000 person-attendance that AISES estimated to attend this November.
AISES officials said that the event will bring people from Native American reservations in Wyoming, South Dakota and New Mexico. They also said that they were excited to bring the CSU, Fort Collins, Denver and reservation communities together.
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