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Seattle Center event showcases Native American culture

June 8, 2019 at 7:52 pm Updated June 10, 2019 at 6:41 pm

Never too young to dance, Four-year-old Cedar Christopherson contributes to the Alaska Kuteeyaa Dancers performance during the Indigenous People Festival at Seattle Center Saturday. Kuteeyaa means “totem” in Tlingit. Cedar also improvised some steps while the Tlingit group performed on the Armory stage. The festival celebrates indigenous cultures with song, dance, art and food with many Native groups collaborating. (Alan Berner / The Seattle Times)

Tracy Lee Nelson of the La Jolla Indian Reservation sings the blues at his table in the Seattle Center Armory before heading to the Mural Amphitheater Stage. He says tribal blues has been around at least 500 years. (Alan Berner / The Seattle Times)

The Alaska Kuteeyaa Dancers, Tlingits, dance their way onto the Seattle Center House stage to perform at the Indigenous People Festival Saturday. (Alan Berner / The Seattle Times)

Aren Sparck’s (CQ) daughter Ida peers around him as he sings a welcome song on the Mural Amphitheater Stage to open the Indigenous People Festival on Saturday. (Alan Berner / The Seattle Times)

Jessica Dominy is a Tlingit storyteller and the cedar hat was gifted to her mother. (Alan Berner / The Seattle Times)

Tlingit dancers perform an exit song as they leave the Seattle Center Armory stage during the Indigenous People Festival Saturday. (Alan Berner / The Seattle Times)

Arian Giesholt wore her leather deer mask, and says she has deer-dancing training, came to hear the performances at the Indigenous People Festival Saturday at Seattle Center. (Alan Berner / The Seattle Times)

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Alan Berner

The Indigenous People Festival at Seattle Center Saturday celebrated indigenous cultures with song, dance, art and food with many Native groups collaborating.

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