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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...