If you have been in Centennial Park behind the Badlands Community Facility, you may have noticed a new addition to the park.
There has been a new all metal tipi constructed in the park. Lynn Fabrick was instrumental in getting this structure installed and admits it did take time. “It was quite a process. It took almost two years and a lot of support, and local community organizations, that came to make this happen. I wanted to have something that was a visible sculpture to showcase that we do have indigenous history here.”
The new tipi is a basic metal structure and will not be covered according to Fabrick. “It is done. It is meant to be the pole structure. Throughout different events, such as winter and coming into Christmas time, we are going to be putting some lights on it so it will showcase it especially with it getting darker sooner. There will not be a cover put on it.”
The tipi is located near where the Pow Wow has been situated for years and Fabrick admits that it will be a key part to the event. “Our Powwow ground has been back there since 2017. It’s blessed and sacred ground and I chose that location because it is at our Powwow site so it can be included into the Powwow itself.”
Another important piece to the structure is the signage at the site, according to Fabrick. “There’s a sign down there talking about the history of the land, the signing of Treaty 7, not only in English but in Blackfoot. I wanted to do that because we are on Blackfoot Confederacy land in Treaty 7. I wanted everybody who comes that takes in this beautiful sculpture, to also learn about the history of the land we are on right now.”
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