How To Powwow Dance- Hoop Dance Part 1

[@jerichoanderson3332]

I’m on the same boat as you! My mom was scooped during the 60s scoop and was adopted into a family that didn’t practise our culture because of the effects of residential schools. Just recently, me and my family have been teaching ourselves through videos like these to try and help revitalize our understandings and fill that void we have in our heart from being so distant from our culture. Miigwetch for posting this!

[@zeropointconsciousness]

I love Pow Wow's they lift my spirit even though I'm Scottish I am truly sorry and ashamed of colonisation and I understand we were colonised over here first. Chi Miigwetch for your teachings Sacred Sister may you always be guided and protected by Great Spirit...and so naturally much love and respect from my being to yours. Aho

[@inorganicproduce]

This is what the internet should be used for - learning with well-taught tutorials!

[@enfj_3]

I've been connecting with ancestors and dancing has always been my favorite. Dancing with a hoop feels powerful, I barely started this week and I appreciative of finding this video. May you continue to heal and inspire the world ❤ -Arizona, (Pima) Gila River tribe

[@sharonmarie3857]

Thank you for showing and teaching Powwow Dancing with stories of Indigenous Culture. 💕😊👍

[@TelesterionCentreAustralia]

Thank you for the lesson! I absolutely adore your beautiful boots 👢 ❤❤❤

[@northerngirlhobbies]

Fantastic! Thank you! I used to dance when I was younger. We plan to go to the Wiki Powwow tomorrow.

[@jean-robertlord4016]

Extremely interesting, kitci meegwech for sharing your knowledge with us! 🐴🐎☺️🐎🐴

[@peterbodnarchuk1]

You're a wonderful teacher. Thank you. I am learning some Hoop Dancing to help teach my students more about First Nations. This is a very helpful tutorial as I have only taken 1 class in Hoop Dancing.

[@HowToPowwowDance]

Hi Peter, Thank you for the compliment. I have a request for you. If you are not Indigenous and are teaching students about First Nations please don't teach cultural teachings. Anything about Indigenous culture like our dances, should be taught by us. Where do you live? I have a large network of dance teachers I could call on to visit your class 😃 Please email me if you are interested. [e-mail]

[@peterbodnarchuk1]

@@HowToPowwowDance Regina Sk.

[@peterbodnarchuk1]

@@HowToPowwowDance Thank you for your reply. I definitely want to be respectful to your culture as am part Metis not completely Indigenous so I won't teach any of the cultural aspects. Can I show this video to my class so they can learn these Hoop Movement patterns? Thank you again for your input. I really appreciate it. :)

[@FlynnTheWild]

My family was separated by some of the policies that were in place. We've passed the history orally and I'm finding a lot of it is verifiable as I make an effort to reconnect with my roots. I'm discovering hoop dancing and trying to learn. Loving that internet resources are available! I'm not alone! Thank you for being part of that

[@LadyWildcat]

I absolutely love it. The children I work with would love to learn. I'll be watching your tutorials trying to learn! Thank you!

[@Bloorzak]

I think these are all amazing videos and I hope you post many more! I am mi'kmaq and my mother never learned any of our culture and therefore neither did I. I am now homeschooling my children and teaching them as much indigenous culture as I can and will definitely be implementing your dances! Thanks!

[@celticarm5]

Girl. . . Just learned a few months ago(from a DNA test) that I am 50% Native American!! Holy crap. . . So yes I feel ya. . . Gotta learn about our many wonderful and amazing tribes and all the dances. Plus I am a natural dancer lol. Love the videos keep em comin!! 🙂❤

[@kesiafiya1347]

Sharing is caring 🙏 thank you for both ❤

[@janajobbikova7508]

Hello, I am not an indigenous woman, but I have always sympathized with all indigenous peoples of Americas. I felt that I am absolutely and naturally on their (your) side. 😊 I am always glad and proud to hear when they can follow their heritage again, which must have been almost impossible in the past! I would like to learn (a little bit) how to hoop dance or at least to try it, so thank very much for this nice video. 😊

[@hannah5830]

Can’t wait for part 2!!! This is very helpful!! Thank you for your time and wisdom!!

[@karenlabreche6847]

So nice to hear your story and love your energy

[@Jasmin-de7pm]

This is 3 yrs old atm but I just wanted to say thank you. I’m a reconnecting native to the Coahuiletecan peoples. I’m really disconnected though so I’ve had no guidance,… (mex family says we’re not native, dna & docs says otherwise 😒) I’ve hooped for 8 years now but now decided I need to incorporate this. I’m following my soul. Thank you so much for this.

[@alexisbernal195]

Omg hey! I’ve only been able to find this tribe name by word of mouth from my family. I’m reconnecting too with no guidance. So happy to have found someone in the same situation 💞

[@steffinicole1251]

Chi’Miigwetch ❤

[@steffinicole1251]

Aaniin ojiiwaaman! Stephanie nindizhinikaaz, Chimnissing geebiigijbaa, ma’iingaan dodem! zhooniyaa-bakwen amaadiwin izhichigewin, Chi’Miigwetch 🎉 I was raised a foster child. My great grandmother was a residential school survivor, My grandmother was in the sixties scoop and I was taken from a good father ! II am finally reconnecting with my local community at 30! 🎉 I hoop dance every day but with one hoop. I was hoping to find traditional hoop somewhere. Today, while I looked for a ribbon skirt pattern I found your page and it’s fantastic! So Chi’Miigwetch ❤🧡✊🏽

[@crystalmcintosh4011]

Aww I love this and want to learn this craft

[@tyrawaite1851]

Thank you so much this video helps me so much💛 now I know why I’ve always been drawn to this powwow dance😍 such a beautiful story🔥

[@LenaNagos29]

My children want to learn this. We so miss the powwow

[@martyhowell2940]

Can’t wait for part two. What foot work do you do while hoop dancing ..?

[@BenjaminBerryHoops]

Excellent resource, I'll be sharing this for Indigenous History month at a school family program this weekend!

[@kathleenbigsmoke-mitchell4898]

Good job with the story! 💛 it!

[@HowToPowwowDance]

Awe Miigwech! If your interested I will be teaching a Facebook Live tutorial on how to make hoops. Just search Deanne Hupfield on Facebook 😁 this Saturday at 9pm EDT 😁

[@ghionyanos7213]

im watching this video because its part of my homework and btw it was so nice everyone will respect your colcher

[@Overlord_Marishka]

I hit that bell. I will be binging these videos.

[@HowToPowwowDance]

I will be posting more soon! Thank you so much for following

[@bk-ng1vy]

My family was not scooped but, being from Oregon USA the tribe im from was basically destroyed bt the u.s. calvery. So all out traditions are lost. I love your pride. Thank you!

[@manidoowilkie8459]

Miigwech! I have been also getting more in touch with my culture now as an adult, and one of the things that has really enveloped my interest has been pow wow and hoop dancing. I've been practicing this at my center with an instructor, but also really appreciate finding videos like yours teaching styles and backgrounds that are hard to learn about without deeply looking for them. One thing I really want to get into is constructing my own routine. I've learned quite the number of moves, but am so unsure where to begin in crafting them together. I know hoop dancing is supposed to be a story telling dance, but I'm lost on how one would go about getting started on making the story. Any advice? Miigwech again. Hope to see a part 2! Mino giizhigad!

[@idekrubber2704]

i’m Nez Perce and my mom is white and my dad is native but my dad left when i was young so i never knew my culture. but i’ve been hanging out with my cousins from my dads side and i’ve been learning a lot about it. i never knew how to pow wow dance because i grew up with my white mom, she still lets me visit my culture and i’m happy about it. i live on another native reservation but i still learn a lot.

[@kyliejack1341]

Hi, I found your channel this summer and thank you so much for posting these teachings. I was wondering for hoop dancing if there are guidelines for hoop size? Like in competition? Thank you again for posting these videos.

[@HowToPowwowDance]

You have to make them to fit you. Usually a little larger from fist to inner armpit.

[@crystalmcintosh4011]

Thank you for this ❤️

[@ritzsmith2413]

It's good what you're doing I like to watch you I hope I meet you one of these days

[@zeropointconsciousness]

Love this Sacred Sister I think I'm going to get a hoop.

[@fawnaiabens8926]

i love this. thanks for sharing.

[@loriereedy4198]

My hoops have arrived and I'm practicing. When will you do lesson 2?

[@HowToPowwowDance]

As of now I am quite swamped. I am launching an Online Jingle Dress Making Course in a few weeks!

[@HowToPowwowDance]

I will post it as soon as I can tho! So happy people are enjoying the videos!

[@bk-ng1vy]

Beautiful!

[@yoloy2k]

Wow this brought tears to my eyes and a big lump in my throat!! About 5 years ago I learned to contemporary hoop dance at a ‘hippie’ music festival - I danced and danced the whole festival I wasn’t even hungry I only ate some blue berries. I was in a trance completely sober and connecting with my ancestors. At that time I had no idea there was an indigenous story about the Hoop Dance. My grandmother a Dene was taken to residential school and grew up so ashamed to be indigenous and so my mother knew nothing of our roots until her 30’s. Wow wow wow! It’s time to pick up some plumbers tubing!! 🥲💖👏❤️ Thank you Bless your heart for the digital indigenous revival!! ❤️❤️❤️

[@reginaarmenta2668]

I started hooping around my waist as a stilt walker and performer. My mom is white and my Dad is Mexican. His Mom said she was Mochica and his Father said he was Yaqui. I started researching hoops because we called what we were doing, Hula hooping. I know now that Hula is a dance that was used to pass down stories and culture when the indigenous people of Hawaii were colonized and forbidden to use their language. I and many others stopped calling it Hula hooping but many reverted to calling what we did Hoop Dancing. I call what I do now when I’m hooping around my waist on stilts, moving with a hoop or dancing with a hoop and I encourage people to understand that both Hula and Hoop dancing is not what we are doing on stilts. That these are very specific dances that deserve the respect and appreciation not appropriation. I am also trying to learn about my own culture and my love for movement . How to honor and respect language around movement so that I am not perpetuating further oppression. This February I am traveling to Phoenix AZ to attend the hoop Dancing competition at the Heard Museum. Thank you so much for sharing these videos. I hope to learn Hoop Dancing some day. ♥️

[@amaktiy2796]

Im making my fancy shawl with ribbon, could you maybe give me some tips for avoiding the ends fraying please? Thank you !!

[@Nanookausi2007]

Burn the ends with a candle. Be careful though they can catch fire quickly. You just want to singe the edge.

[@faithisaacs4213]

With a candle or simply use a lighter. All u need is a little heat and it will melt the ends and keep it from fraying. If ur young, have an adult do it for u! Best of luck!

[@s-kenno6274]

And here, I thought I had an answer to try to hoop dance again Sadly, I didn't know I had to think long and hard to to keep going, but now the understanding runs much deeper And now, I wanna relearn how to hoop dance, because I had only but a brief lesson in grade 5 ish which around 2009 ish I believe, maybe later But, as I learn deeply where these sacred dances we have comes from, the more I wanna keep the traditional ways of finding willow wood or something along the lines of materials we used to create them. But now, I wanna heal, either for the people, or myself Just to feel somewhat connected. Thank you for reading.

[@aiykuu2250]

Ay Hay for the teaching.

[@spiritanointed]

What size should the hoops be?

[@sakuraax_yay]

Hello! Did u go to the charles e webster to teach the dance?

[@amandaslagle4537]

What are the ideal sizes for the hoops?

[@deesisson8710]

Please do more videos

[@Martha_Castro09]

Hai early love u!!!!

[@Martha_Castro09]

Tysm for liking my comment💙💙💙💙

[@melissaking8795]

My daughter Sophia will love this she wants to learn a dance for her Talent show for another school year We don't really know her a history of her background be due to her father left her when she was a baby but she wants to learn Is her true side of her culture that her father can't

[@Martha_Castro09]

Hello my name is Martha I am 10 I'm not native I'm mexican but I learn how to bead and learn how to dance fancy shawl and thank u so much I love u and why do I act so native lol I am from Yakima Washington well close to Yakima 💙💙💙

[@Martha_Castro09]

Omg tysm for liking my comment

[@Hannah-zc8gn]

Many people from Mexico have indigenous blood in them as well. That is why we see a lot of similarities in culture. If you have a single drop of indigenous blood in you, and you connect with that, then you are native. It is a spirituality and a way of life just as much, if not more, than simply ethnicity. Try learning from your elders and see if perhaps you have ancestral connections. Yakoke for honoring our cultures and learning the significance of the dance

[@Martha_Castro09]

@@Hannah-zc8gn ok thank u soooooo much for telling me!!

[@CinnaBlaez]

Please keep posting videos

[@TracyTigue]

We wanted to let you know we are following the kids pow video ty we would love to meet you White Wolf

[@TelesterionCentreAustralia]

How big should the hoop be?

[@carolyn4143]

How many hoops should I make

[@AG-iy9md]

Is it ok to use this dance if you're Mexican? The community here made me feel like I wasn't native so I can't do this kind of thing.

[@zzombiexX1]

Yayyy

[@NerdXlife]

Where’s part 2

[@HowToPowwowDance]

I am sorry about the 2 year wait lol. I hope to be posting again on here soon.

[@zzombiexX1]

Ohhhh

[@brendenburnor5468]

Can I still do this if I'm white but my adoptive parents are native american

[@zat-1-fury]

Can you do fancy dance for men’s pow wow

[@HowToPowwowDance]

I will ask my Fancy Dance friend :D

[@skipskip6652]

We are looking to hire teachers for 2 kids: 1 boy, 1 girl. They are both Navajo and Tewa. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

[@HowToPowwowDance]

What kind of teachers?

[@dominiclacoote2855]

I am Passamaquoddy from Maine

[@ariannanicholas6330]

People made fun of how I Jingle danced so now I’m quitting cuz I am going to be a hoop dancer so that is why I em watching this vid I’m a First Nation from Canada in Invermere but I live in Cranbrook with my mom I’m 10 years old my last name in Nicholas and my first name is Arianna my dad is Aaron Nicholas my mom is Hanna capilo

[@dominiclacoote2855]

You're driving an 18 wheeler lol

[@talkingtomisfat720]

I’m Not A Hoop Dancer I Am Just A Normal Dancer

[@zzombiexX1]

Fart poo

[@pocosblackhorn9141]

I would love to be a dance teacher. I have a lot to learn though. I would love for you to teach me. I can't get on my email right now but If you have Facebook please contact me at Pocos Blackhorn or Wild Wolf Blackhorn.

[@ForagingLittleMiss]

How many inches is that hula hoop?