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 ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — At Northern Quest Casino, typical bells and whistles could be heard from wall to wall. But inside the Pend Oreille Pavilion, spectators listened to different bells as dancers from ...

“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 ...

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 ...

It all started with one dress. Jovannah Poor Bear-Adams needed a jingle dress to dance in her first powwow, so she did what any 7-year-old would do. She asked mom. Cindy Giago grew up dancing in ...

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 ...

Ojibwe stories tell of the beginnings and the healing powers of the Jingle Dress Dance. Ojibwe stories tell of the beginnings and the healing powers of the Jingle Dress Dance.

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 ...

The jingle dance, as well as the healing ceremony it was part of, was practiced for a few decades before waning in the 1940s and ’50s, according to Mark Thiel, archivist for Native American ...