At Northern Quest Casino, typical bells and whistles could be heard from wall to wall. But inside the Pend Oreille Pavilion, ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

New exhibit explores the history of the Ojibwe jingle dress, and marks its 100th anniversary One hundred years ago in 1918-1919 when the global influenza pandemic killed millions worldwide, including ...

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 ...

“The man’s wife made the dress, and his little girl wore it,” Whiteman said. “She had to dance through four songs. At first, two women had to help her stand. But with each song, she got better, until ...