Native Americans performing ritual Ghost Dance. One standing woman is wearing a white dress, a special costume for the ritual dance, 1890. Photo by James Mooney, an ethnologist with US Dept. of ...

A Paiute man had a vision: A ritual dance would reunite his people with their dead. The Ghost Dance swept across other North American tribes, until fear and violence brought it to a tragic end. HEARD ...

Local Texas communities are using public resources to offer summer camps in Bharatanatyam, a classical Indian temple dance, for girls ages 6 to 11. The Prosper, Texas, Parks and Recreation department ...

Native youth in Sacramento use powwow dances like jingle as cultural healing tools. Traditional practices address trauma and mental illness amid limited Native therapists. Culturally rooted events ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- As a young child, I remember going with my family to powwows and feeling mesmerized by the dancers. The songs. The sounds of jingling coming from dancers’ regalia. The skill, ...

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Many variations of stories exist about the origin of the Jingle Dress Dance in Native American culture. In the one that Natalie Scott knows, it involves a sick little girl whose grandfather had a ...

"When we go to these competitions, we actually realize that we are the only native dance group" said Teresa Martinez, the head coach. A local all native-dance cheer team is heading to the World Dance ...

Indigenous Enterprise, the Native American dance troupe celebrating its 10th anniversary year, returns to New York City this Fall with Still Here, a new performance running September 16–21 at The ...

Every artist confronts her past, and, in the case of the Indian dancer Bijayini Satpathy, that past is both a country and a colonial legacy. Satpathy performs Odissi, a dance style from the eastern ...