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 ...

Indigenous Sound Art,” six artists use sound in their works, which range from a wall-size string instrument to a forest of ...

Native American jingle dresses connect dance, art, history 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 ...

The Jingle Dress dance originated with the Ojibewea (Ojibwe) Tribe a century ago, possibly during the 1918 influenza epidemic, according to Native American history and art sources.

Their jingle dresses, each outfitted with 365 cones, also represent healing, which they hope to bring to a nation battling everything from an ongoing pandemic to questions over Indigenous land rights.

In fact, the story of the jingle dress — part handicraft, part dance, and part mythology — is getting a closer look in a new exhibit from the Minnesota Historical Society’s Mille Lacs Indian ...

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 ...

Native American youth in Sacramento, who feel disconnected from their culture, use powwow traditions to find identity and heal historical wounds.

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 ...

Editor's note: Every winter, the Star Tribune commissions an original piece of writing from a notable local author. This year's essay is by Brenda J. Child, Northrop professor of American Studies and ...

Kya-Rae Arthur performs a jingle dress dance during a presentation on missing and murdered indigenous women and girls in conjunction with Ballet Beyond Borders on Saturday. Arthur said the issue ...

Fancy Dancing was born a bit later than the jingle dress tradition, and both men and women can perform the Fancy Dance. Women’s regalia includes colorful, elaborate shawls that become part of ...