Photo description:

Brenden Patrick, one of the dancers performing after the sacred fire was lit in the Oodena Circle at The Forks at a ceremony Wednesday to officially kickoff the Manito Ahbee Indigenous Music Awards. The five day festival that runs Sept. 9-13 has events at different venues and includes the 10th Annual Indigenous Music Awards at the MTS Centre Friday. see release. Wayne Glowacki / Winnipeg Free Press Sept.9 2015