"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 ...

TOWER, Minn. - The dress talked as Abbi Zapata bumped her feet across the floor. It was a gentle sound, as rhythmic as ice shards moving against a thawing shoreline. It's a century-old sound that ...

HINCKLEY — 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 small ...

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 ...

Christmas may be just around the corner, but a seminar Thursday, Nov. 14, shed light on a different cultural phenomenon with the word “jingle.” Jingle dresses — traditional ritualistic dancing ...

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 ...

A Diné (Navajo) Nation photographer Eugene Tapahe of Tapahe Photography, with his family and... A Diné (Navajo) Nation photographer Eugene Tapahe of Tapahe Photography, with his family and friends, is ...

In Ojibwe culture, music, dance and medicine are sources of healing. By Brenda J. Child Dr. Child is Northrop Professor of American Studies & American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...