Ann Arbor PowWow

Native American culture at Crisler

by James M. Manheim

posted 4/1/2008

Like a bracelet around the Crisler Arena floor are ten sets of concentric circles: a circular drum, a circle of men playing it in unison with sticks and singing, and a group that gathers around them to listen. Sometimes, says a Native American man who sits down next to me in the stands for a while, someone in the outer circle will record the song — the

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