Saxman Tribal House — Attraction in Saxman

The beaver clan house show/performance was a massive disappointment.

School aged kids putting on a elementary school level performance, supervised by a few older kids, all wearing fake felt outfits. 1 native adult (with a more authentic looking outfit) in the corner playing the drum.

The "show" consisted of 4 parts, the 1st was 2 (8 year old?) kids in normal clothes clearly filling in the time, he explained his deadpool(movie character) t-shirt & picked on his friend to try to use up time, they tried to leave the stage but were pushed back out by an adult to entertain us longer. The 2nd part was a story told by an out of state seasonal worker guide. The 3rd part was a performance which was them facing away from the crowd to show their outfits (a felt cape) with their clan animal logo on the back, and them stepping side to side to the tempo of the drum. The 4th part they had a dozen ppl from the audience go up to put on the felt capt and do the side to side stepping to the drum.

It was so bad that i felt our group may not have got the normal show. We went mid-day in a Friday.

Don't waste your time or money going into the saxman village beaver...

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