Photo gallery: Red Earth media day
Landon Primeaux, 4, of Shawnee, right, stands with his brother Graham Primeaux, 18, while the two wait to dance during media day for the Red Earth Festival, on the fourth floor of the state Capitol in Oklahoma City, Monday. The brothers both perform fancy dance. The 23rd annual Red Earth Native American Cultural Festival will be June 5-7 in downtown Oklahoma City. (Photo by Nate Billings, The Oklahoman)
Student dancers, Samantha White, left, 11, of Oklahoma City, and Skye Wapskineh, 10, of Oklahoma City, stand together during media day for the Red Earth Festival, on the fourth floor of the state Capitol in Oklahoma City, Monday. White dances Southern Cloth, while Wapskineh is a jingle dress dancer. The 23rd annual Red Earth Native American Cultural Festival will be June 5-7 in downtown Oklahoma City.
Mewayseh Greenwood, front, 12, of Edmond, performs a straight dance, as Jeffrey McMahan Jr., middle, 5, of Oklahoma City, performs a grass dance and Graham Primeaux, back left, 18, of Shawnee, performs fancy dance during media day for the Red Earth Festival, on the fourth floor of the state Capitol in Oklahoma City, Monday, May 11, 2009. The 23rd annual Red Earth Native American Cultural Festival will be June 5-7 in downtown Oklahoma City.
Several American Indian student dancers from Oklahoma City, Edmond, Shawnee and Pawnee attended the Red Earth Festival media day Monday at the state Capitol to demonstrate the kind of dancing that will be performed at the upcoming Red Earth Native American Cultural Festival.
The 23rd annual Red Earth festival will be June 5 through 7 at the Cox Convention Center in downtown Oklahoma City.
The Oklahoman photographer Nate Billings captured some great images of these young dancers in action. Check them out.
Also, here are a couple of Associated Press photos from Monday’s festivities.
Five-year-old Jeffrey McMahan Jr., of Oklahoma City, yawns as he waits to dance during a news conference about the 23rd Annual Red Earth Festival, in Oklahoma City, Monday. (Associated Press photos)
American Indian dancers Andrew Whiteshirt, 15, of Pawnee, left, Jeffrey McMahan Jr., 5, of Oklahoma City, center, and Me-Way-Seh Greenwood, 12, of Edmond, right, dance during a news conference promoting the 2009 Red Earth Festival, in Oklahoma City, Monday.
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