‘Walk in balance’: Two-Spirit powwow celebrates outside the binary – TBNewsWatch.com
June 9, 2025
This year, organizers said the Thunder Bay Indigenous Friendship Centre partnered with Bingwi Neyaashi Anishinaabek to ensure they could come together and provide the best and biggest powwow they could for their community.
THUNDER BAY — For a long time, Reed Lecomte, a Two-Spirit knowledge carrier, was drawn to the drum — an instrument only men typically sit by.
Knowing that he was not allowed to sit and drum it, he said, was really hard.
As such, Lecomte was really excited that the Thunder Bay Indigenous Friendship Centre brought their teaching drum to the annual Two-Spirit powwow on Saturday.
