Joe Rainey Sr. is a 32-year-old Ojibwe singer who grew up in Minneapolis, just outside the White Earth housing projects. As a self-professed “pow wow kid,” Rainey trained in the Ginew/Golden Eagle youth program at the Minneapolis American Indian Center, on Franklin, hanging at the back of adult drum circles with his Sony recorder. He remembers his first Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community Wacipi, in 1994. “I still have the button,” he says.