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Before the celebration began, before Saturday’s heat began to oppress, an elder Native American man sat in the shade of his booth playing along on a set of pan pipes.  

The tune? “Dirty Old Town,” made famous by the Pogues in the 1980s, but now wafting over to the park courtesy of a Farmer’s Market chanteuse. 

The man was getting into the sprit of the Tenth Annual Indigenous Peoples Day Pow-Wow and Indian Market, held in Martin Luther King Civic Center