How National Indigenous Peoples Day was celebrated in Yellowknife and Whitehorse
Food, music, clothing and community have been integral to how people across the North celebrated National Indigenous Peoples Day.
There was lots to see during events in Yellowknife and Whitehorse on Saturday
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The Yellowknives Dene Drummers were among those who shared music with the crowd at Somba K'e Civic Plaza in Yellowknife on Saturday. The annual fish fry and stage show was organized by the North Slave Métis Alliance. (Liny Lamberink/CBC)
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Food, music, clothing and community have been integral to how people in the N.W.T. and Yukon celebrated National Indigenous Peoples Day.
The North Slave Métis Alliance hosted its annual fish fry and stage show at Somba K'e Civic Plaza in Yellowknife. Volunteers served up white fish from Great Slave Lake alongside bannock, beans, corn and dessert, while a variety of different performers took to the waterfront amphitheatre.
There was also a full schedule of events to mark the day at the Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre in Whitehorse, including the Daghaalhaan K'e Dancers, a jigging contest and a bannock bake-off.
Annual fish fry in Yellowknife
A volunteer hands out a foil-wrapped piece of white fish. There was a long line waiting for the free grub. (Liny Lamberink/CBC)
Nichole Smith, a public service employee with the RCMP, wraps up freshly fried white fish. (Liny Lamberink/CBC)
Mohammad Bhuiyan, left, and Raihanul Kabir each hold full plates of fish, bannock, corn and a muffin. (Liny Lamberink/CBC)
Festivities at the Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre
Elder Gary Bailie with his granddaughter in a lounge at the Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre, where there were a number of different cultural performances and events to mark National Indigenous Peoples Day on Saturday. (Asad Chishti/CBC)
The Daghaalhaan K'e Dancers performed at the Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre to mark National Indigenous Peoples Day. (Asad Chishti/CBC)
Participants in the bannock bake-off at the Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre smile for the camera. (Asad Chishti/CBC)
Brooke Tanaka in her almost entirely new regalia. (Asad Chishti/CBC)
Yellowknives Dene Drummers lead a drum dance
Bobby Drygeese of the Yellowknives Dene Drummers draws people back for another drum dance as a rain cloud threatens in the distance. (Liny Lamberink/CBC)
People get up to dance to the beat of the drums. (Liny Lamberink/CBC)
The festivities drew a sizable crowd to Somba K'e Civic Plaza in Yellowknife. (Liny Lamberink/CBC)
People formed a circle and danced in a loop as the drummers led in song. (Liny Lamberink/CBC)
