“It’s a dance where your feet are touching the earth, but the noise that the dress makes goes up to the Creator,” says Sarah Ortegon, an acclaimed jingle dancer and multimedia artist who is both ...
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 ...
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 ...
Jingle Dress dancers describe their dance, their plans, and the role of the powwow in native culture
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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 ...
Editor's note: Every winter, the Star Tribune commissions an original piece of writing from a notable local author. This year's essay is by Brenda J. Child, Northrop professor of American Studies and ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Keira Swiftwater doesn’t talk much to strangers, but start a drumbeat and the 23-month-old from Denver starts dancing in front of them. She’s been dancing ...
Acosia Red Elk, of Mission, performs her championship jingle dance Saturday, April 30, 2022, at the Gathering of the Nations Pow Wow in Tingley Coliseum, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Red Elk, 43, won her ...
Whiteman started dancing herself as a girl, though she began as a “fancy dancer.” Fancy Dancing was born a bit later than the jingle dress tradition, and both men and women can perform the Fancy Dance ...
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