The Seafair Indian Days Powwow at Discovery Park begins Friday featuring drummers, dancers and other performers.
Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center at Discovery Park in Seattle's Magnolia neighborhood will this weekend host the Seafair Indian Days Powwow. at Discovery Park begins Friday with the Grand Entry at 7:00 p.m. featuring drummers, dancers and other performers from around the western United States in a colorful and euphonious procession atwhich is named for Captain George Vancouver’s ship, which sailed by in 1792.
The exact origins of what’s become a beloved annual tradition – and a bucket-list experience for many, to hear the songs and drumming and see the dancers and colorful costumes up close and in person – are a little vague. Newspaper archives indicate that what might have been the first major powwow at Daybreak Star was held over two days in March 1980 to mark the tenth anniversary of when the activists led by Bernie Whitebear began their occupation and successful protest.
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