'A phenomenal, beautiful day': Hundreds come out for first-ever Anishinaabe Art Festival

Jul. 22—BEMIDJI — In the words of Bemidji Mayor Jorge Prince, Friday was a phenomenal, beautiful day to host the first-ever Anishinaabe Art Festival at the Sanford Center.

With anticipation of the Indigenous art, traditional food tastings, demonstrations and entertainment that would proliferate throughout the day and Saturday, hundreds of attendees filed into the cultural oasis that the Sanford Center had been transformed into.

An opening ceremony kicked off Friday's activities, which began with an invocation and welcome by emcee Rob Fairbanks.

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