"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 ...

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 ...

The jingle dress dance represents healing, pride and a spiritual form of wellness in Native American culture. The dresses, worn by women and girls, are lined with hundreds of metal cones, or ...

"We become one. You know, even with all the women out there dancing in the jingle dress, we're side by side, we're all one.

HINCKLEY, Minn. — You can hear Mikah Whitecloud Hart coming from a long way away. She's a jingle dress dancer, one of a group of women who parade in subtle rhythm at powwows, rattling rows and rows of ...

In the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, Diné photographer Eugene Tapahe had a dream that brought healing to the people and the land. His dream was of jingle dress dancers approaching buffalo ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - A special guest shared some of the stories and tradition of her culture in a fun way at Topeka’s library. The Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library welcomed Victoria Lafean of ...

There are several different origin stories — some say the first jingle dress was made on the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe Reservation, or perhaps it was in Red Lake, or Whitefish Bay. Most of the stories ...

Century-old art forms and a story of healing are at the center of Turtle Bay Exploration Park's latest exhibit, and a meaningful addition to the park's summer program highlighting Native American ...

ARLEE - ArriAnna Matt-Henry and Rose Bear Don't Walk will enter the dance arena as jingle dress dancers Saturday in Arlee. It all began last Christmas, when ArriAnna asked her mother if she could have ...

If you’re in the United States or Canada, you may have seen the intricately designed Google Doodle above. It celebrates the Jingle Dress Dance performed by Native American women. The dance, which ...