{"id":28087,"date":"2016-06-29T13:43:01","date_gmt":"2016-06-29T18:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/?p=28087"},"modified":"2016-06-29T13:43:01","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T18:43:01","slug":"aboriginal-day-celebrated-with-traditional-music-and-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/2016\/06\/29\/aboriginal-day-celebrated-with-traditional-music-and-dance\/","title":{"rendered":"Aboriginal Day Celebrated with Traditional Music and Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>ValleyBiz Story |<\/p>\n

A celebration in recognition of National Aboriginal Day took place at the Elbert Chartrand Friendship Centre on June 21, 2016.<\/p>\n

It was a beautiful sunny day and the celebration featured tradional music, singing, dancing and food.<\/p>\n

Click any picture for a larger version.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Morning entertainment was provided by Robert Severight from Cote First Nation and his three children. <\/p>\n

Robert provided some background on various styles of each dance before drumming and singing as each of his children danced.<\/p>\n

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\n<\/br>Tanisha, age 14 (above) is a
\nWomen’s Traditional Dancer<\/p>\n

Talon, age 11 (above right)is a
\nJr. Men’s Traditional Dancer<\/p>\n

Treaune, age 7 (right) is a
\nGrass Dancer<\/br><\/br><\/p>\n

Local talent also took to the stage with music and dancing.<\/p>\n

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\nSeveral school classes from the Valley took the time to take in the activities.<\/p>\n

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Everyone in attendance was invited to join hands to form a circle and dance.<\/p>\n

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Following the morning activities, everyone in attendance was invited inside for a free stew and bannock lunch with cake and refreshments.<\/p>\n

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ValleyBiz Story | A celebration in recognition of National Aboriginal Day took place at the Elbert Chartrand Friendship Centre on June 21, 2016. It was a beautiful sunny day and the celebration featured tradional music, singing, dancing and food. Click any picture for a larger version. Morning entertainment was provided by Robert Severight from Cote […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[24,13,16],"class_list":["post-28087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local","tag-arts-entertainment","tag-coverage","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}