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 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 ...
“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 ...
The sound of jingling metal cones emanated through the University Center Ballroom as Kya-Rae Arthur bopped up and down while performing a jingle dress dance at the Ballet Beyond Borders Creative ...
This lady was ready to jingle bell rock 'n' roll with her epic moves and the internet was loving it. A video showing an Oklahoma City woman dancing to "Jingle Bells" during her chorus’ performance was ...
Shawna Olson and her 19-month-old daughter Ariya of the Brokenhead Ojibway Nation of Manitoba, Canada, stand in their jingle dresses at the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe Grand Celebration Powwow in ...
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 ...