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 ...

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In the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, Diné photographer Eugene Tapahe had a dream that brought healing to the people and the land. His dream was of jingle dress dancers approaching buffalo ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...