
Joe Parizeau (left) is this year's Arlee Celebration Young Warrior. (ALISIA MUHLESTEIN/Missoulian)
Thirteen-year-old Joe Parizeau is this year’s Arlee Celebration Young Warrior, a long title with heavy responsibilities - he is honor-bound to keep dancing, to represent himself with dignity, to make progress on his Native language skills, to be a good student, and to be drug- and alcohol-free.
But if those obligations feel burdensome, you’d never know it from talking with Parizeau.
As he says in this story, when he steps into the dance arena, “it brings out my heart and lets me be free.”
He was among more than 300 dancers participating in this weekend’s Arlee Celebration at the foot of Montana’s Mission Mountains on the Flathead Indian Reservation. He also was celebrated as the powwow’s best-dressed, and the photo shows why.
Gwen Florio
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