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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For the young Navajo women of Art Heals: The Jingle Dress Project, the musical regalia they wear while traveling around the ...

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 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 ...

“It’s a dance where your feet are touching the earth, but the noise that the dress makes goes up to the Creator,” says Sarah Ortegon, an acclaimed jingle dancer and multimedia artist who is both ...

This lady was ready to jingle bell rock 'n' roll with her epic moves and the internet was loving it. A video showing an Oklahoma City woman dancing to "Jingle Bells" during her chorus’ performance was ...

Century-old art forms and a story of healing are at the center of Turtle Bay Exploration Park's latest exhibit, and a meaningful addition to the park's summer program highlighting Native American ...

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 ...

Raise your hand if you know the choreography to the “Jingle Bell Rock” dance from Mean Girls by heart. Yeah, us too. What’s not to love about it? The costumes are cute, the moves are pretty simple, ...

She used to roll jingles during long car rides from Nett Lake to Virginia or Duluth. The jingle dance, as well as the healing ceremony it was part of, was practiced for a few decades before waning in ...