Many regions of the Alaska Native nation are represented in downtown Anchorage this week -- Alutiiq, Yup'ik, Inupiaq, Tlingit and Haida, just to name a few.
Here is a short video on an Athabascan dance group, Ida'ina K'eljeshna, that performed for the Alaska Federation of Natives Convention on Thursday, October 15.
"We dance because it's a part of our lives, it's our identity and there's a need for us as a younger generation to keep our culture alive," said dance group member Demaris Hudson.
See more: Yup'ik drumming and dancing at AFN
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