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History of the Jingle Dress Dance

History of the Jingle Dress Dance The Jingle Dress Dance originated with the Mille Lacs Band of the Ojibwe Tribe in the early 1900s and gained popularity during the 1920s in the Great Lakes...

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How the Choctaws Saved the Irish

We’re overstating the case there—the Choctaws didn’tsavethe Irish, but they sure tried to help. The year was 1847, and the the Great Irish Famine (sometimes called the Irish Potato Famine by non-Irish) was in...

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Marine Dances at Iowa Tribal Pow Wow

The 29th Annual Iowa Tribal Powwow took place in Perkins, Oklahoma the weekend of June 20th-22nd. Hugh Foley attended the pow wow and captured this video of Lance Corporal Trey Iron dancing in his dress blues...

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Medicine According to Cherokee Legend

The Old Ones say that at one time all of Creation spoke the same language. The plants could communicate with the finned ones, the four-leggeds could speak with the trees, the stones could talk...