The Women’s Fancy Shawl Dance has its roots in Native American/Indigenous culture, specifically among the Plains tribes such as the Lakota, Dakota, and Blackfeet. With the generosity of these tribes the dance was shared among many other tribes across North America. Over time, the Fancy Shawl Dance evolved from its original style of the Women’s Traditional Buckskin dress into a competitive and highly athletic dance style at powwows and intertribal gatherings. Today, it is characterized by intrica