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 ...

Diana Pitawanakwat first started dancing when she was 14 years old. Since then, she has held jobs and had little time to continue the art. Having free time on her hands after classes got out at ...

Shundiin Whitehorse, 16, filmed her entry for a virtual jingle dress dance contest in just one take an hour before the deadline. For Shundiin, multiple attempts at the traditional dance were not an ...

Ruth Swaney smiled as she watched her 5-year-old grandson, Talus Endfield, perform his first "fancy dance" Saturday afternoon at the 2017 Native Youth Powwow, an annual event which honors Native ...

"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 ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — Last March, Sophia TurningRobe received the news that she will be experiencing her undergraduate years as a Act Six Scholar at Whitworth University where she hopes to broaden her ...