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Cindy St. Pierre from Minot dances in the circle during the Attean Memorial Pow Wow at the Maine Wildlife Park in Gray on Sunday. St. Pierre got into dancing around 1999 after she and her husband discovered their Native American heritage. To see a video of the dancing and to hear about the Attean family, visit sunjournal.com/atteanpowwow2013.
A large crowd watches Allan Finnegan of Massachusetts dance at the Attean Memorial Pow Wow in Gray on Sunday.
George Painted Raven Castonguay of Jay does the Crow Hop at the Attean Memorial Pow Wow in Gray on Sunday. “It’s just a matter of opening your heart,” Castonguay said about Native American dance.
A man’s regalia pants are decorated with hooves to make noise while dancing at the pow wow Sunday.
Nicole Johnson dances with her niece, Lynda Attean Johnson, right, and others during the Attean Memorial Pow Wow in Gray on Sunday. The pow wow was honoring the women’s family, which has long been involved in politics and can trace its heritage back to the last inherited chief of the Penobscot Nation, according to Ruth Attean, the matriarch of the family.
Tracey Stump-Clark of Pittston participates in the Attean Memorial Pow Wow in Gray on Sunday.
Allan Finnegan of Massachusetts dances in an intertribal dance at the Attean Memorial Pow Wow in Gray on Sunday.
Nicole Johnson dances during the Attean Memorial Pow Wow in Gray on Sunday. The pow wow was honoring her family, which has long been involved in politics and can trace its heritage back to the last inherited chief of the Penobscot Nation, according to Ruth Attean, the matriarch of the family.
Steps In It from Clinton participates in Sunday’s pow wow in Gray.