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World Champion Fancy Dancer Larry Yazzie Appears on Express Yourself

Deanne Vitrac-Kessler

 

Larry Yazzie is an actor and renowned fancy dancer of the Meskwaki Nation in Tama, Iowa. While visiting the Roaring Fork Valley, Larry stopped by KDNK to talk about Native Pride Arts and the upcoming Shining Mountains Pow Wow. Barbara "Babs" Frota leads this interview with Raleigh Burleigh co-hosting.

Raleigh Burleigh was raised in the historic floodplanes of Satank. The Carbondale Rotary Club sponsored him as a youth ambassador to Chile the year before his graduation from Roaring Fork High School. He studied International Affairs and Journalism at the University of Colorado, Boulder then applied those studies traveling throughout South America the following year. Returning to Carbondale thereafter, Raleigh acquired an internship with KDNK News which led to the opportunity to serve as News Director from 2017 to 2019. After another trip to South America in early 2019, Raleigh Burleigh drew deeper into the confluence as Program Director at KDNK. Raleigh now serves on KDNK's board of directors and as editor of Carbondale's weekly newspaper, The Sopris Sun.