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Photos: Burnaby celebrates National Indigenous Peoples Day

Singing, drumming and dancing filled Civic Square.
Jennifer Gauthier
Jennifer Gauthier
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Git Hayesk (People of the Copper Shield) honour their Coast Salish relatives with a dance.Jennifer Gauthier

The City of Burnaby hosted a community event marking National Indigenous Peoples Day at Civic Square on Friday, June 21.

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Traditional Salish song and dance performance group Tsatsu Stalqayu (Coastal Wolf Pack.) 
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Deborah Baker of the Squamish Nation and Senaqwila welcome the crowd.
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Spakwus Slolem (Eagle Song Dancers) of Squamish Nation perform a paddle song.
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Eight-year-old Marina of Burnaby plays one of the games. 
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Ernie Cardinal of Spirit of the Children Society offers a red fox pelt to Haya Shalan, 7, to touch. 
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Spakwus Slolem (Eagle Song Dancers) of Squamish Nation. 
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Participants learn to drum.
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Award-winning author, William G. Lindsay. 
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Weaver Rita Point Kompst. 
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Spakwus Slolem (Eagle Song Dancers) of Squamish Nation.