July 10, 2024
Pikwakanagan – Meiyah Whiteduck has long been a proud visible representative of her Anishinaabe culture, dancing at Pow Wows, singing and drumming with the Pikwakanagan Wildflowers and selling her beadwork at Ottawa Senators games, but now she is taking on a new way of showing her pride in her heritage as a contestant in the first Miss Indigenous Canada pageant.
Pikwakanagan – Meiyah Whiteduck has long been a proud visible representative of her Anishinaabe culture, dancing at Pow Wows, singing and drumming with the Pikwakanagan Wildflowers and selling her beadwork at Ottawa Senators games, but now she is taking on a new way of showing her pride in her heritage as a contestant in the first Miss Indigenous Canada pageant.
“I’ve never been in a pageant before,” the 24-year-old from Pikwakanagan said. “I did not feel western society pageants aligned with my values but this is the first year of the Miss Indigenous Canada and when I looked it up and saw what it was about, I was excited.”