Shawna Olson and her 19-month-old daughter Ariya of the Brokenhead Ojibway Nation of Manitoba, Canada, stand in their jingle dresses at the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe Grand Celebration Powwow in ...

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 ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - A special guest shared some of the stories and tradition of her culture in a fun way at Topeka’s library. The Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library welcomed Victoria Lafean of ...

Opening Wednesday, April 3, the new exhibit “Zibaaska’ iganagoodday: The Jingle Dress at 100” at the Mille Lacs Indian Museum and Trading Post explores the story of the zibaaska’ iganagooday, or ...

Christmas may be just around the corner, but a seminar Thursday, Nov. 14, shed light on a different cultural phenomenon with the word “jingle.” Jingle dresses — traditional ritualistic dancing ...

As the COVID-19 pandemic began raging across the globe in spring 2020, Navajo photographer Eugene Tapahe had a dream. He was sitting on the grass at Yellowstone National Park (which extends across ...

In Ojibwe culture, music, dance and medicine are sources of healing. By Brenda J. Child Dr. Child is Northrop Professor of American Studies & American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota and ...

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 ...

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 ...

There are several different origin stories — some say the first jingle dress was made on the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe Reservation, or perhaps it was in Red Lake, or Whitefish Bay. Most of the stories ...