🍂 TAKES-GIVING: NATIONAL DAY OF MOURNING ROUND DANCE 🍂
Thursday, November 27, 2025 – 1:00 PM
📍 Minneapolis American Indian Center
Join us as we come together for a National Day of Mourning, a day to honor our ancestors, stand in our truths, and nourish our people with culture, ceremony, and community.
1:00 PM – Community Feast (Nibi Hall)
We will be serving a full meal until it’s gone: turkey, ham, stuffing, mashed potatoes & gravy, wild rice, bread, cranberry sauce, mixed veggies, and pumpkin pie.
2:30 PM – Pipe Ceremony (Gym)
Led by Pipeman Fred Desjarlaït. All pipe carriers are invited.
3:00 PM – Takes-Giving Round Dance (Gym)
✨ MC: Jerry Dearly
✨ Stickman: Lakota “Hokie” Clairmont
✨ Invited singers: Tommy “The Gun” Benjamin & Thomas Butcher
✨ First 10 singers receive $100
✨ Spot dances and raffle throughout the evening
This Takes-giving Round Dance and Community Feast is a large community event serving hundreds of relatives, and we are actively seeking sponsors to help support food, singers, raffles, and cultural programming. If your organization, business, or family would like to sponsor this event, please reach out.
📩 Contact:
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Or message the IPM Facebook page directly.
Let’s gather with love, healing, and good food while standing for those who came before us, and for the generations who will follow. Open to the community. ❤️✊🏽
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