Young dancers wow crowds at smoke dance celebration in Brantford

The future of the Haudenosaunee smoke dance is in good hands – and active feet.Among the dozens of competitors at the Woodland Cultural Centre’s Smoke Dance Celebration event on Saturday, youngsters from the ‘tiny tots’ division (five and under) stole the show. Dressed head to toe in Indigenous regalia, the next generation gave elders plenty of hope for the future.“It makes me so happy because I never got to dance growing up,” said Hailey Powless, whose one-y