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 ...
Manidooniibikwe (Barb Rodaks, far left), Migizigabowekwe (Vicky Ellis, near left), join Umpaowastowin (Pat Northrup, center) and her daughter Lorna Dow and granddaughter Allibelle Northrup at Pat ...
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 ...
"We become one. You know, even with all the women out there dancing in the jingle dress, we're side by side, we're all one.
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 ...
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 ...
The crowds gathered around a space just inside the entrance to the National Museum of the American Indian. They listened as Misty Rose Nace [Solorio], a member of the Brokenhead Ojibway First Nation ...
Left to right, JoAnni Begay, Erin Tapahe, Dion Tapahe and Sunni Begay are pictured at Bonneville Salt Flats, native land of the Ute, Goshute, Paiute, Shoshone and Navajo people. May 22, 2021. Left to ...