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Arielle Pentes newwave@tulane.edu

David Montana, right, Big Chief of the Washitaw Nation Mardi Gras Indian tribe chants as he performs for students in Beverly Trask’s Introduction to Musical Cultures of the Gulf South class. Trask invited Montana and Ausettua Amor Amenkum, far right, a Tulane dance professor and Big Queen of the Washitaw Nation to teach students the importance of suit making, and African diaspora culture in New Orleans.

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