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Playing this weekend at Rock Áak’w Indigenous Music Festival in Juneau, AK and streaming live: www.rockaakwfestival.com Hip hop duo Yung Trybez and Young D - Snotty Nose Rez Kids hail from the Haisla Nation in Kitimat, BC. For more tour dates - including a Nov 11 stop in Seattle at Neumos: snottynoserezkids.com Rock Áak’w Indigenous Music Festivalis a biennial weekend-long event, held on the ancestral homelands of the Áakʼw Ḵwáan (People of the Little Lake) in an area called Dzantikʼihéeni (River At the Base of Flounder [Hill]) in the Lingít language, and is also known as Juneau, Alaska. Rock Aak’w presents Indigenous performance arts from around the world. For decades, Indigenous and First Nation artists have performed in the peripheries of the arts market, it is only in recent years have we seen significant rise in opportunities, primarily due to collaboration between Indigenous artists, organizations and allies from Australia, Aotearoa, and Canada. There is still so much ground to make up in the United States, and Rock Aak’w’s efforts to create opportunities helps to make up this ground and to overcome the historically under-representation of Indigenous performance. www.rockaakwfestival.com