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 ...

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 ...

HINCKLEY — 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 small ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Last Saturday afternoon, Umpaowastowin — or Pat Northrup, as she’s known in English — prepared to dance. Wearing a maroon dress with rows of metal cones stitched all around her skirt, she offered ...

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 ...