Jazz Festival expands Native focus to tribes beyond Louisiana

Friday, May 3, 2013  

Over 50 tribes from the U.S. and Canada are represented at the annual New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, which wraps up this weekend.

Native musicians have been performing on main stages at the event. There's also a tribal village where attendees can learn more about Native art, food and traditions.

“The main purpose is to show the diversity of the Native American culture,” Gray Hawk Perkins, who is of Choctaw and Houma ancestry, told the Associated Press

Robert Mirabal of Taos Pueblo performs on a main stage tomorrow.

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