"I have been coming here since I was a child. My mom use to bring me here back when they had the carnival rides and everything," said Carmen Perez.

Carmen Perez and her family, along with people from all over the Twin Cities, watched the annual parade along Cesar Chavez Street.

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The Saint Paul Festival and Heritage Foundation put on the celebration.



"This is his first time. We wanted to show him this is part of our culture. Being half Mexican and half Native American, we just like to celebrate with our Indigenous brothers and sisters out here. Always good to be out here especially with our community in the Twin Cities as well," said Perez.



"I think it's really great to show the cultural morality that we have here in the Twin Cities. People can really see that it's not just one story. It's everybody's story," said Samuel Trivette.