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Nov 18, 2020
2 min

Prairie Chicken Dance

Chicken Dancers tend to wear very flamboyant regalia colors with flowery designs, round bustles with matching side bustles on the shoulders.

Nov 18, 2020
2 min

Women’s Northern Traditional Dance

Traditional is a dance that exemplifies dignity, grace, and modesty. This dance style has more variation in its regalia than any other style

Nov 18, 2020
3 min

Jingle Dress

The Jingle Dress Dance began with the northern tribe Ojibwa in the early 1900s and became prevalent in the 1920s in the US & Canada.

Nov 18, 2020
2 min

Southern Cloth

Ladies Cloth is a form of Native American women's dress and dance and has both a Northern and Southern style.

Nov 18, 2020
2 min

Fancy Shawl Dance

Women’s Fancy Shawl is one of the most anticipated competitions at pow wows.

Nov 18, 2020
2 min

Women’s Buckskin

One of the oldest forms of Native American Women's Dance is Buckskin. This is a dance of elegance and grace.

Nov 18, 2020
3 min

Traditional Dance

This dance was developed as a way for returning warriors to tell others what had happened during a hunting expedition or battle.

Nov 18, 2020
2 min

Fancy Dance

The Oklahoma Feather Dance or “Fancy Dance” is one of the most popular styles of Native dance as are the outfits seen at modern powwows.

Nov 18, 2020
2 min

Grass Dance

Grass Dancers always stand out by virtue of two things: their dancing style and their outfits.

Nov 18, 2020
3 min

Straight Dance

he Straight Dance is a formal, tailored, prestigious form of southern dance.

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