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 ...

In a parking lot teeming with tourists in Cannon Beach, Oregon, sisters Erin and Dion Tapahe and their friend, Sunni Begay, helped each other put on long dresses adorned with beadwork, fur, and ...

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 jingle dress dance represents healing, pride and a spiritual form of wellness in Native American culture. The dresses, worn by women and girls, are lined with hundreds of metal cones, or ...

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 ...

The crowds gathered around a space just inside the entrance to the National Museum of the American Indian. They listened as Misty Rose Nace [Solorio], a member of the Brokenhead Ojibway First Nation ...

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 ...

Rows of shiny metal cones bounce gently off each other in time with Abbi’s footsteps. To Whiteman, it sounds like “rolling water,” or sometimes like wind chimes. The jingle dress tradition turns 100 ...