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Town to hold first Native American festival in June

Native American food dishes, interactive exhibits and a drum troupe powwow will be part of Tiburon’s newest cultural celebration coming to Zelinsky Park, tentatively set for June 21, the day before the town’s fifth annual Juneteenth festival on lower Main Street.

 

The Town Council approved nearly $20,000 in funding for both events, voting 4-0-1 to grant $6,000 for the Native American heritage festival and $13,497 for Juneteenth; Vice Mayor Jon Welner abstained over ballooning cost concerns for the latter event. Earlier in the evening, the Diversity Inclusion Task Force recommended approval of the funding in 8-0 vote, with one vacancy and at-large appointee Nooshin Navidi Latour absent.


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