8th Annual Stone Mountain Park Indian Festival

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8th Annual Stone Mountain Park Indian Festival

8th Annual Stone Mountain Park Indian Festival

John Standingdeer, from Cherokee N.C., enjoys in the festivities. The tepee village includes demonstrations such as fire starting, campfire cooking, brain tanning, hide scraping, flint napping, pottery making and demonstration of primitive tool technology.

Ray Pena works with the Harris Hawk Friday during a demonstration. He explained how native Americans viewed birds of Prey in spiritual terms as ones who took prayers high into the sky to the creator.

Early native Amercian tools and weapons.

School children reach out to dancer, Gina Georgia, who preformed in Dakota dress.

Eddie Swimmer from Cherokee, N.C., did a hoop dance Friday showing all the different designs one makes during the dance.

Clairemont Elementary school students Jaedin Hayes and Molly Weston, both second graders, look over native American carvings Friday.

J.J. Kent (left) from Wyoming, wearing Lakota tribe dress, explains the plains Indians Tepee Friday to a group from Duluth.

The four-day event that surrounds guests with the customs of Native Americans through dance and drum competitions, music, authentic craft demonstrations, cooking samples and storytelling.

Award winning dancer, Robert Tramper, from Cherokee, N.C., in Cherokee dress does the Men's Fancy Dance

Jim Sawgrass dressed in Creek attire demonstrates how to start a fire at the 8th Annual Stone Mountain Park Indian Festival and Pow-Wow.

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John Standingdeer, from Cherokee N.C., enjoys in the festivities. The tepee village includes demonstrations such as fire starting, campfire cooking, brain tanning, hide scraping, flint napping, pottery making and demonstration of primitive tool technology.

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