For the young Navajo women of Art Heals: The Jingle Dress Project, the musical regalia they wear while traveling around the country represents more than simply gorgeous textile artistry. (Although it ...
Fashion designer Nan Blassingame, of the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes, sits in her swivel chair, working on a traditional dance shawl. Her hands move up and down as she knots blue strings of fringe ...
Jingle Dress dancers describe their dance, their plans, and the role of the powwow in native culture
The Jingle Dress originated with the Anishinabe (Ojibwe) people in about 1900. Its name comes from the sound made by the shaking of more than 100 metallic cones that hang from the dress. The origin of ...
"The dance is like a prayer so the sounds kind of carry into heaven.” When the United States was hit with the influenza pandemic in 1918, the women of the Ojibwe tribe practiced a healing ritual known ...
Navajo artist and photographer Eugene Tapahe had a dream during the COVID-19 pandemic of women dancing in Yellowstone National Park in jingle dresses, traditional pow wow regalia. From that dream, he ...
The jingle dance is being performed on social media platforms across Canada and the United States to heal and offer prayer for the world facing the COVID-19 pandemic. One could even say the videos are ...
Singer-songwriter Leonard Sumner drew from a wide range of personal stories and memories to create his Juno-nominated album Standing in the Light. But the most surprising inspiration might be the ...
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