Fashion designer Nan Blassingame, of the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes, sits in her swivel chair, working on a traditional dance shawl. Her hands move up and down as she knots blue strings of fringe ...

Arlene Duncan was at work when she saw the text messages. Look at these online auction listings, her friends urged. They texted screenshots of three jingle dresses, colorful handmade garments with ...

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 ...

Jingle dresses are medicine dresses intended to bring healing, and they are labor-intensive to make, said Ashley Fairbanks, a creative director and Anishinaabe activist. For each one of the hundreds ...

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 ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — At Northern Quest Casino, typical bells and whistles could be heard from wall to wall. But inside the Pend Oreille Pavilion, spectators listened to different bells as dancers from ...

The jingle dress was used for healing during another health crisis — the 1918 flu pandemic. Jingle Dress Project Travels Around The Country Promoting Healing A group of Native American women from Utah ...

Renowned artist Firelei Báez's latest work explores the complicated history of the color indigo and pays homage to a majestic ruin in Haiti. And, a group of Native American women wearing traditional ...

Anna Sheppard, right, and Chantel Sheppard perform traditional dances in their jingle dresses while a drum circle plays Saturday, Sept. 24, 2022, at the Lake Agassiz Regional Library in Moorhead.

A group of Native American women from Utah is traveling the U.S. to promote healing from COVID-19. They're dancing in jingle dresses — traditional dresses made with beads and metal cones. The jingle ...