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Leah Villa dances in a Women’s Traditional dance during the seventh annual Gathering of Oregon’s First Nations
Powwow held at the Salem Pavilion at the Oregon State Fair and Expo Center in Salem on Saturday, Jan. 24.
Kathy Cole, right, Tribal Cultural Education and Outreach Program manager,
demonstrates the Tribe’s Chinuk Wawa app on an iPad for Jo Gauthier, left,
and her daughter, Sheri Gauthier, during the seventh annual Gathering of
Oregon’s First Nations Powwow held at the Salem Pavilion at the Oregon
State Fair and Expo Center in Salem on Saturday, Jan. 24.
Photos by Michelle Alaimo
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