Pow-Wow at the Falls to celebrate Indigenous culture during Expo 74 anniversary celebration [Video]

SPOKANE, Wash. – Expo ’74’s 50th Anniversary Celebration will include celebrations of Spokane’s Indigenous heritage.

“We’re going to have an amazing Pow-Wow right here at the Spokane Convention Center,” said Margo Hill.

Hill is a Spokane Tribal Citizen, professor at Eastern Washington University and the lead organizer of Expo 50’s “Tribal Pillar,” which will be comprised of a whole host of events across the summer-long celebration.

“We’re going to have cultural exhibits, teepees and we welcome all of our Spokane citizens and local neighbors to come down and see our traditional tribal culture,” Hill said.

It’s a culture that has gathered at the sacred grounds around the Spokane River for countless generations, which makes Expo’s environmental theme all the more important to tribes in the Inland Northwest.

“We live with nature, not on nature. we don’t own the land, we are part of nature, we work with the animals and the environment, protecting the ecosystems.”

Hill says Expo’s “Pow-Wow at the Falls” on May 25 …