OLD STYLE Jingle Dance Steps

[@irenesmochi4563]

I am Shawnee and Cherokee, but my family never really let me honor my culture. Now I am 15 and I can make the choice to honor my ancestors and learn my traditions❤️ Thank you for helping us indigenous peoples who never got the chance to learn the beauty of our heritage!

[@mauricexodhe9663]

You should! I am Otomi from central Mexico. It is a must for us Native Americans to keep on with our traditions! You still have people coming from overseas, so we must keep our culture alive... Most of the Hispanics in South Carolina and north Carolina are Otomi and Purepecha but I can say majority of the people prefer to be "American" than a "Native American"

[@plumeerland7422]

thank you for the revival of the beautiful native American culture . we need you 🌅

[@olivia-ul5il]

so i am mixed with white mexian and native and i am very fair its hard to tell people that im mixed and i really love that your teaching people to regain their culture because everyone on my moms side has troubles with it so i wanted to say thank you

[@thedesertwarrior7447]

I am an old Apache woman with neuropathy ravaging my legs. Yet, as I watch my young Sisters dance, my feet move with them despite it all. This video blessed me, and now I am subscribed. I have a granddaughter, and will share this with her. Oh, how they tried to kill us, and still try; ignoring us, or hurting us at every turn, yet, *here we are!* Ahééiyéé, Sister, for all that you do.

[@marymorningstar6832]

👍💝

[@thedesertwarrior7447]

@@marymorningstar6832 Blessings to you and yours!

[@Caprabone]

May your people heal and thrive, forever.

[@katanab1128]

Aww i love this!! I always wanted to be a jingle girl but I didn't want to suffer the hate from other natives/family/friends because although I grew up a native, believe in native beliefs, study our history etc etc, my skin tone is pale (dads Italian/japense) so I was afraid of others telling me im not native because I'm "white" or not "brown enough." (Suprisingly it happens quite often:(( Now today my dance class is doing an assignment on our culture/s and I wanted to jingle dance! I really hope I don't get hate from it but im really excited to try it! Thankyou!!

[@HowToPowwowDance]

I saw a beautiful post today about this topic. The woman said she isn't half this and half that, when she sings she isn't singing with 50% of her Indigenous side. She said she isnt fractions she is layers ❤️ I loved it. Speaks so much to the discrimination fair skin and black Indigenous people face.

[@katanab1128]

@@HowToPowwowDance aww thats such a beautiful way to put it!! Its great to know that theres people out there who understand and who go through the same things! Hopefully more people will recognize skin tone does not define peoples cultures/beliefs/ etc with time

[@everlasting9292]

@@HowToPowwowDance that really is a beautiful way to look at it.

[@JynxGirl11]

Kodi, you're not alone. I was raised outside of my culture too, and I'm trying to find ways to reconnect.

[@emilosee9042]

I am very similar. My mom is white, my dad is Native (Not full either), and then my grandma is full and from Alaska. I have always grown being told of my lineage, but there was a lot my dad didn't know, so I wasn't able to learn about my culture as much as I would've liked. However, I always grew up going to powwow's and looked up to the dancers as a kid. I wanted to jingle dance for years. Finally, I made myself my jingle dress and want to finally learn how to do it. However, there's still a part of me that feels insecure about it, because I'm so pale compared to others and worried people will think I'm "too white".

[@arcanaandtheimaginarians]

Thank you so much for this, I'm mixed Native - Mi'kmaq, Wolastoqiyik, Métis, Abenaki and Huron-Wendat - and I'm white seeming and I've been reconnecting with my culture for the past few years and for the past few generations none of us knew anything about our ways and I'm the only one in the family reconnecting so it's really isolating so learning these steps are really important to me because I hope to dance at a powwow one day even if I doubt I'll ever be enrolled, this is a lifesaver 🥺💕✨

[@almightysmith225]

Im not Indian but I can respect how your culture preserves its history. Your story is that of perseverance.

[@jobsearch5871]

you are 1000 times correct , your identity has been hidden from you . The teachings went another way . Thanks to you and yours for keeping it real.

[@hilostateofmind]

The comments have me in tears. This is SO powerful. This is medicine. Thank you so so much for doing this.

[@Nonamj15]

I definitely got off track when my grandmother passed away, she had a huge part in my upbringing when parents fell into addiction. I have all my regalia except moccasins. She loved watching me dance, I need to start dancing again ❤

[@Kt_bb]

I havent danced in almost 15 years since my grandpa passed, you've definitely inspired me.

[@zanyoungbear6574]

I haven't danced since my dad passed when I was 12. But he always wanted me to dance so now I think its time to relearn it. Thank you for the video

[@Msluhv222]

I was a jingle dancer when i was 5, stopped after i had a meltdown getting rushed into my rageila for grand entry so i never danced since but lately i’ve been wanting to pick it back up

[@FS-pn9bt]

Thank you for sharing. I lost my mother before she could teach me. I just have her regalia and I am now 25, and I feel old but I feel like starting this in my life and carrying on family traditions.

[@stephness8553]

I deeply appreciate your heart felt intention sharing these sacred dances... Wado!

[@Thecurlynative]

I’m Shinnecock, I’ve been dancing & competing my whole life but I’ve always been insecure about my dancing, I have sickle cell so my body gets really tired very quick and it worsens the older I get so I stopped dancing around 4 or 5 years ago. My pow wow just ended. Spirit told me to get back in there in order to heal myself and my people as well. I’m determined, by this time next year, I will be back in my regalia at full strength 🤞🏽🪶 your videos ate helping me 🤍

[@Xoaster_Toaster]

I recently found out I have some native aunties, I’m black and I already have been interested in native culture already so I came back over to this video to learn more

[@amygreene5272]

My father is blackfeet he was adopted. It's so nice to yes your videos because I'm trying to learn my culture. My goal is to dance in my first powwow this coming year I'm 46. My father went missing about 20 years ago. We believe he was killed. So this is very important for me to honor his spirit.

[@HowToPowwowDance]

So sorry to hear about your father. Dancing helped me heal and work through my hurts and traumas. Sewing, beading, it's so good for the heart and mind. Miigwech for sharing your story.

[@Axgxl-ofxl]

Ur story is similar to mine. Except it's my older brother. I am from New Mexico and I am a Kinyaa'a'anii. My older brother went missing for about 5 years ago but we recently found his body and he was killed. His body was burnt so it took us a long time to figure out that it was my brother. My brother would've been 26 years old this year. My brother's death was the hardest to my family. It changed my 2nd older brother who is now 18 years old. He became suicidal but we changed that. He now has a girlfriend and is living his life but he's rlly obsessed with violence and Smoking and doing all the bad stuff y'now? So I can understand you.

[@lillienicolo]

I was always grown believing that I was just a darker Italian woman and that I had Italian, polish, etc, but I never looked like them. When I met people from my tribe and my history, I felt at home to see that I fit in among them. Thank you for sharing this and allowing me to see who I am 🫶🏼

[@dayesimpson]

I'm not native, but I have always honoured the Jingle Dance when being a spectator of many Pow Wows. You are so inspiring and an excellent teacher and you make it looks so easy!! Thank you for teaching us how to do this beautiful dance 🙏

[@Tcepetah]

Finding this has made me so very happy! I was adopted as a child and raised outside my culture and now as an adult I'm trying to reconnect and have wanted to learn this for a while!

[@cheriesandoval8603]

My great grandpa was taken off the Chiricahua Apache Reservation, and we didn’t get to grow up in our Apache, Navajo culture as well. I myself and learning our dances, my cousin inspired me and knows some foot work from what she was taught as a little girl.

[@lynnlewis7144]

Aanii Breana, welcome to your/our culture! My tribe is Little Band of Ottawa Indians. The original name of the Ottawa people is ODAWA. I know you're an adult now, but one of the strict rules when adopting a native child, is to keep them very involved in our culture. I'm so sorry you were raised with your culture...but I'm so happy to hear you're taking the initiative to be involved in our culture on your own. Boozhoo and welcome!!

[@yvechapman9342]

I'm so grateful for channels like this as I reconnect. I was told my grandmother was raised on a rez in Oklahoma but all ties were broken when she married my German Jewish grandfather and moved with him back east to Georgia in the 50s. She was able to pass for white and did so (though she is listed as "c*l*red on my mothers birth cert because 1960's Georgia) and wasn't able to pass teachings to my mother as she passed over while giving my mother life. Mom learned to dance a variations of Cloth and Southern Traditional (we are eastern band cherokee) by observing and taking notes at powwows. This was in the 80's and early 90's and my mother looks mixed so she was a bit of an outcast and couldn't exactly just walk up to the elder ladies like some lost reporter and start asking questions. She made her own regalia by hand and looking back I'm so proud of her because she did this from books and hasty sketches from powwows with no internet to show her. I'm so wonderfully spoiled with sewing patterns and tutorials. I've only danced once in intertribal when I was very small. For the longest time I thought we stopped going because I'm blonde with blue eyes (my birth father is Appalachian Irish) and I thought having a white kid embarassed her. Turns out it was as simple as my birth dad wouldn't go with her and she didn't want to go unaccompanied with a child. Took me 20 years to finally ask. I was conflicted about jingle for a while because it's a newer dance and I was taught the oldest way is the best way but I've been called to it more and more over the past few years. I've prayed on it and dreamed. I hear the bells in my dreams. I haven't seen my colors yet but I will. Until then I can learn in a ribbon skirt. This is definitely not something my mother would do as she's intensely traditionalist but lets face it theres nothing traditional about me dancing improvised steps in a clearing to Young Spirit on a boom box but it makes my heart happy. As I get older I'm learning to go where my heart and spirit tell me and not just what I think others want of me.

[@rs.9165]

Im black & lower Creek by birth! Thank you for helping me connect with one part of my heritage

[@pippaari7663]

My niece has been really wanting to learn the culture of the indigenous side of her family. She never had the chance to sadly, so I am sharing this with her in hopes it will help her connect to the indigenous culture she missed out on growing up.

[@piledriverwaltzstansonly6000]

thank you for your videos!! I'm in the process of reconnecting and I feel like I'm stuck because I live so far away from my community and I struggle with feeling like i don't belong or don't have a right to reclaim.

[@HowToPowwowDance]

But it sounds like you know who your people are ❤️

[@ladygrace7585]

ive recently been trying to reconnect with my indigenous roots (im pretty im coahuiltecan but im still doing some more research) but there's a coahuiltecan powwow near where i live and i wanna go and dance there one day. I wanna feel the Spirit while I dance with my sisters and my brothers drum on our homeland. Thank you, this is really helpful

[@1god1tribe77]

Thank you for the tutorial. I am an Lipan Apache Dad trying to teach my daughter how to Jingle dance and it's hard for me to learn the steps then teach her. Talk about alot of humbleness for a man to jingle dance for his daughter in order for her to learn. Shes 7 but been dancing at powows since she was 3. Thanks to your video she can now watch traditional dance steps from a traditional native woman and perfect her skills. Thanks again. Ishka!

[@hilostateofmind]

I'm sooooo grateful to you for doing this video teaching. I am a displaced Native person myself. My father is Central Miwok & Northern snowbird Cherokee but I only just met him a few years ago. I grew up with my Mother and step father and they are not Native. I was always very different from everyone else in the family I grew up with but I didn't know that those differences were very indigenous until I was well into my adulthood. I've been trying to connect with that part of myself and learn everything I can since I realized that. I don't think Miwok ever had jingle dress dancing per sey, perhaps the Cherokee. I have yet to connect with anyone in my own "tribes". I have been very active with my dear friends & adopted families in Diné cultures, chiricahua Apache, Hopi, Native Hawaiian (which I am in part as well) and my Husband's tribe the Potawatomi (which I believe is fairly akin to your folks, correct me if my wrong). I'm tremendously grateful for anything I can learn. The more I learn, the more I feel like myself. A thousand thank you's for this 🙏

[@LaineyBug2020]

I'm only an 8th Potawatomi (Neshnabe) but my grandma still lives on a rez. We used to go visit so much more when I was a kid, & the Pow Wows were my favorite part! I've always wanted to learn how to do this. Now that I'm having a lot of chronic health issues, I've been researching the Jingle Dress Dance a lot more. Just hearing the few words you said that I could recognize made my heart smile! Looking forward to more of this channel!

[@gabriellalilley8618]

You should also do a video on when to know to stop during a song and push ups etc. Love your videos, so helpful.

[@BellyJae]

That one I find hard because different drum groups (especially different regions across the nation) don’t all end their songs the same. But I’ve listened to many drum groups and try to remember how each drum ends their songs. Sidestep I do better with at endings but not always with straight songs.

[@gabriellalilley8618]

@@BellyJae Thank you so much! im just unsure what pushups are or how you know its about to end

[@BellyJae]

Push-ups (or they’re also called starts) is basically a new verse in the song. In contest pow wow dancing, most songs are 4 verses or have 4 starts/push-ups. That way the dancers know to listen for the end of the 4th push-up. Most drum groups end the songs the same so dancers when to stop but there are some that have different endings. :)

[@rosevinetube]

Beautiful. That third step style truly looks like Deer Lady dancing. Magical.

[@richardwhitaker3835]

I'm 3/4 Mexican n Irish this this Woman warms my heart.

[@waasnoode986]

Sweating!! Love this meegwech ! I was also raised outside my culture. My auntie gifted me her jingle dress, she was giving me the low down on who you are, she was happy to see you have these video 😄

[@kelleybyrd6303]

Thank you so much for this lovely video. My Girl Scout Daisy and Brownies are going to be celebrating Native American Heritage Month and they *really* want to do a traditional dance. Little girls adore dancing! I think we can do the Jingle Dance and I am very excited to have them try it! Wish us luck!

[@ieatkids101]

I’m not native,I’m Mexican,but I really like it when people teach us about their culture and their traditional dance,so beautiful ☺️

[@HowToPowwowDance]

So you are Indigenous to South America? ❤️

[@ieatkids101]

@@HowToPowwowDance yeah! I’m Aztec 😊❤️

[@Bob-SlapBattles]

You definetely are ❤️ many of us Mexicans have Native ancestry, and there are many tribes still existing to this day ❤️❤️❤️ blessings to you

[@hilostateofmind]

Hey, Mexican IS Native Cousin.

[@leflopjames5628]

***DEANNE HUPFIELD IS A RACIST WHO DOESNT WANT NON INDIANS TO LEARN ABOUT INDIAN CULTURE AND CLAIMS TO KNOW EVERY INDIAN IN CANADA BY NAME AND FACE*** Deanne Hupfield, an Indigenous educator and powwow dancer, first encountered Matton a number of years ago at a Toronto YMCA, where he was giving a lecture on the Seven Grandfather Teachings of her Ojibway nation. "He was teaching a bunch of non-Indigenous people about my culture," Hupfield recalls. "And then I saw his [ribbon] shirt, with his little Métis sign on it. And I was like, 'That's interesting. Who is this person? I don't know who this person is.' And I had been in the Native community for many years and I'm pretty connected across all of Canada."

[@vinawaldren6888]

This is great! I personally haven't been in the circle for years but I have been teaching my nieces to dance. Now one of them has a daughter, we've always had a feeling about her being a jingle dress dancer. She has recently told us that's what she wants to do. Thanks for the video! 🙏

[@Setsunako6587]

What an invaluable resource you are!!! LOVE this Big Sister Energy 💕

[@matrixmystic3338]

Gratitude and love to you sister! I recently (3yrs ago) discovered my Taino Indian lineage... The Tainos had a symbiotic relationship w the Native Americans and other tribes across the Caribbean islands. When Columbus allegedly discovered America it was the Dominican republic where he ended up shipwrecked and would've have died on the beach but my people gave them nourishment & shelter welcomed them w love... Long story short his regime was responsible for the genocide & (almost) extinction of the Taino in fact it wasn't til recently it was discovered 5% had escaped to the mountains of Cuba where they slowly added to our numbers & flourished in hiding... I LOVE what YOU are doing on this channel!! I'm subscribed & can't wait to watch all your vids!!

[@heatherchappell2517]

This is so fantastic! I'm lookin to teach my daughter traditional dances as she's a Plains cree mixed and I'm totally white so this will give her a great foundation until I can get her a guide! Thank you very much ❤

[@jacobknox9171]

We are Anishinaabe and I will be showing this to my daughter. She wants to dance jingle and this will help her learn.

[@lauralove1119]

I’m an indigenous learner always wanted to learn. Thank you for this. I’ve always felt like I didn’t belong even tho I know it’s my blood and I’m so so proud of representing Mescalero Apache tribe. My uncle is an enrolled member and I hope to be one day as well. I’m following and learning for now thank you for this!

[@hilostateofmind]

Ah the proud people of the white mountains 💗 I know them well. Incredible people.

[@Axgxl-ofxl]

I was a jingle dancer when I was really young and I stopped being one ever since i moved into the city. I started doing jingle dancing on my own. I got myself into jingle dancing and I practiced on my own without letting anyone teaching me. I had a bsf who was a jingle dancer and She got me into jingle dancing so my mom asked her mom to make me a customed jingle dress and my mom signed me up to do jingle dancing. I was at pow wows and I was in parades too. It was amazing but i stopped bcz I moved into the city. I was fluent in navajo language but that changed. Now, I wanna become one again and that'll be my career once i grow up. I am a highschool student btw. So I'm learning navajo and I am learning how to do the jingle dance.

[@wuttbruh]

Thank you thank you thank you for this video. I grew up in foster care, all the way in BC (my mums family is from Ontario!). My social workers tried to give us teachings, but it was all local, so not my peoples teachings at all. I never got to learn any of this. Blessed be. 💕

[@KGwisely]

💞💪 we are still here, thanks for creating this space✨️

[@adrianwermutowski3191]

Thank you. It's good that YT offered me these lessons. I was curious about this dance because it is very pretty. The music is hypnotizing. I live in Poland, in Europe. The history of our peoples; Natives Americans and Poles (Polish) in the 19th century was very similar, which is why I have always liked the culture of Natives A. so much.

[@kimimelaluta7935]

i haven’t started dancing until about a year ago, i didn’t want to because i didn’t have any regalia. traditional wear or not, dancing is health and keeps our culture alive. i dance for the ones who couldn’t. 🧡

[@flixlove1221]

Aho thank you. Love your horse energy in the dancing. May it inspire many.

[@suemoo22]

I just found your channel, you are beautiful and I love your native dancing. I’m not native but always wanted to be. ❤️

[@lunamouth4388]

You inspired me to learn to dance. Thank you. I asked for dance lessons for my 16th birthday which surprised my mom.

[@kathyk479]

Your dancing is beautiful. I can't help but see some similarities between your dances and the Irish step dancing. There's legends in my very very very old Irish family who were sea fairing people who traded good with the indigenous peoples here. For thousands of years so I wonder who taught who? Or did they learn together? I like to think maybe our people's learned together whatever they did together out worked because it's not in any history book and there were no wars over what they did together. 🙄❤

[@mjcutter77]

Dancing for my first time since I was a tiny tot this weekend for my late cousins memorial special for DV - thank you for this!

[@teonnaa5740]

This is amazing I’ve always loved watching jingle- dress dancers ever since I was young they are so beautiful and I’ve been so interested in wanting to learn I’ve never danced before and I don’t know of any family members that make regalia but I want to start by learning the basics I am an enrolled member of the Ft.Belknap Community in MT Aaniiih and Nakoda

[@georgehays4900]

Thank you for bringing this to us. Proud of your pride.

[@randadeluna5834]

I swear I'm going to cry. I'm Numu and a triditional dancer whos always just took the tobacco and prayed with it everytime a jingle dress dancer was asked apond... and your video is proof, that teaching our traditional ceremony, that started here in Nevada, is real! thank you so much! I've longed to watch a video like this.. Pesa U, thank you from my tribe here at the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony... Please come back to the powwow in Hungry Valley! Numaga Indian Days

[@tiamohammed5816]

beautiful i love you tradition dance and i love that you are keeping your traditions 🙏❤

[@samanthamitchellprete5646]

I love jingle dresses and the dances 💃 the way the cones sound and the moves 😍 the backstory whomever you hear it from is so beautiful and inspiring that the jingle dress still in 2021 thriving and helping indigenous people connect with themselves and there ancestors ❤

[@keevanabigchild5815]

❤️❤️❤️❤️ you aspire me, you’re a leader and such a beautiful speaker

[@Orthanderis]

Inspire*

[@02nikota]

I never had the option to be able to dance and I've always wanted to learn. I don't plan on dancing at pow wows or anything i just want to learn so i love your videos! I'm a maid so i listen to pow wow music and practice dancing while i clean....lol I bet some of the client's look at back their cameras and see me dancing around their home's and think I'm crazy. But your videos have been a big help i have been practicing this dance in particular. Thank you for these videos!!!

[@hapfiala7303]

Chi miigwetch for this, I can't wait to make my first jingle dress this year!

[@carolinavalencia2621]

Me too! For me and my daughters we are learning together

[@angelisajimenez3915]

Thank you for what you're doing. Im trying to teach my daughter gingle. Hopefully all will be ready for her to dance next season ❤ 🙏

[@Hunter-sd7ib]

Thank you for this video. My teen wants to dance in the Pow Wow many years later. It's her first one she was taught the Old Style before but has forgotten. This was a very good refresher. Wado

[@Sack.Of.Cookies]

Your channel is my first stepping stone in a long journey ahead; I just got back from powwow this weekend and have decided it's finally time I begin to dance. Hayu masi ❤

[@anibelle6856]

I was adopted as a child by the two bands of the Anishinaabe (Red Cliff and Bad River) as a Lost Child since my papa was adopted but has no desire to know his biological family. While we know from DNA tests (done to understand more about my autoimmune disease and anything else to look out for) that I have Native heritage most certainly, we don't know which nation I belong to (most likely Anishinaabe or Lakota based on where he was born) and on my own I found his niece and her children and she also has Native heritage... but while I danced at Pow Wows as a little girl at the invitation of grandmothers, and dancing with my friends, but as an adult I now worry that I would be disrespectful to try to step back into learning the dances (again) and everything... nonetheless I wanted to tell you that you're a bachelor beautiful teacher and a lovely dancer. Your soul is so gracious to do this.

[@dorisdiaz9779]

Me encanta sus bailes hermoso..gracias por enseñar y explicar cómo se baila..hermoso..saludos desde panamá🙋👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@jonmunoz2772]

I really appreciate this video, I'm chiricahua apache and raramuri on my dad's side but on my mom's side I'm Spanish so I'm half native and I always criticism from both sides for wanting to practice my tribal heritage because some are very Anglicanised and want to be white or American evangelical so badly. I just had enough and if my family doesn't like it then they can kick rocks, I'm indigenous and proud.

[@lorrainesianez270]

Thank you so much for doing this!!💕 I have felt lost for a long time. I lost contact with everyone I knew when I was younger who was teaching to dance. I never gave up the dream of wanting to dance. Thank again, you are amazing ❤😭

[@jccardinal5912]

I haven’t danced in 5 years and I love that you helping fellow indigenous peoples I’m hoping I’ll be able to dance again whenever this pandemic is over

[@everlasting9292]

I'm so glad you do these videos. I am part Cherokee and I've always wanted to get more in touch with Native American traditions and ceremonies. Even more lately I've wanted to learn to dance and connect with the Earth more and I'm so glad there are easily accessible resources (like your videos as well as others) to teach many of these things since my Cherokee great grandmother died when I was very young and my grandmother doesn't have any knowledge she can/wants to pass on.

[@erinmcdonald7781]

That's sad about your grandmother not passing down her knowledge. I have situations like that in my background, as well. As someone who's always been interested in learning and truth, finding out and processing the history of what actually happened to all the tribes throughout our past is really mind bending. So much taken. So much loss. I'm glad there seems to be a resurgence amongst the youth to embrace and preserve their culture and wisdom. 💜🌎🍀

[@victorsanchez5306]

It's very good what you're doing that you're showing your heritage and everything I'm Comanche and Pueblo Indian Comanche from my great grandfather's side and Pueblo Indian from my grandmother's side and Hispanic so I always tell people whatever you are be proud and I always love seeing the jingle dances and all the other dances and going to pow wows

[@SahaleNde]

I am very grateful to your dance lessons. I will continue to teach to dance.🙏🏾✊🏾🦅❤💯🔥

[@gayfroppy4440]

I'm 1/64 Inuk but really want to embrace mt culture and am trying so hard I know Inuit don't jingle dress dance but I'm so fascinated by it and find it so beautiful and healing and plan on making a jingle dress this year

[@michaeljameslawrence2965]

Thanks 🙏 I did performing arts dance at college and try and do the rain dance but do not know that. Could you do the rain dance please. God bless you. Keep culture alive through word and story or dance it is the best way to preserve culture. 😊

[@paulinebaker6576]

Awh thank you for this. I really want to learn how to dance. Your visuals are perfect for me

[@cerisewintersongquintyne3754]

I have danced fancy and traditional most of my life but jingle is something I want to do too so thank you for this.

[@atchingpplinorfail3721]

The dance is about going forward, spirituality & physically healing. Aho, chi-migwich for demonstrating.

[@kdaigle654]

JUST in case someone is watching this and learning and practicing. I found it helpful to learn the steps first, and then put on some music and dance! It’s a good time. Learned and practice today for about 30-40 minutes.

[@jaimeeestes9630]

Nice video! I've been fancy shawl my whole life but in my adulthood, I'm thinking of switching to jingle. I want to start dancing again and I really want to try jingle, especially for the significance of the dance. Thank you for sharing your skills. I laughed out loud when you said, you can't go back and do fancy footwork etc😂 as a fancy dancer I could see myself trying to be extra.

[@JM-ug1lx]

What you are doing is so beautiful. I am metis raised european but I always felt something was missing until I started pursuing my indigenous side. I struggle with not feeling indigenous enough. I look white and I am so mixed i get imposter syndrome a lot and fear that I will not be accepted in pow wow circles outside of my city where I am known.

[@haritchie3460]

Grateful, helpful to pay more attention, understand different steps , Again thank you Will try to pass this on to my daughter, only hope she will give it some deep thought

[@cheyannebear7033]

Thank you posting and making these! Me and my daughter are gonna watch your videos to learn!

[@allisonchang6258]

Thanks for this extremely helpful video that slows it down so we can see what’s happening. I have seen videos where the teacher goes so quickly you can’t follow. I have no intention of doing this dance since I’m not in the group. However, I’m watching it to appreciate dancers better when I’m at pow wows

[@CosmicAli_TheObserver]

I am going to start dancing again, I also dance fancy but I love traditional Jingle and the story of how the dance came to be.

[@angelinaAGES]

i want to learn so bad, im Lipan Apache and I'm learning more and more about myself (and my ancestors🧡) ever since my grandfather died. THANK YOU for this video. Aheeiyeh ♡

[@suedrinsinger5469]

Thank you this would help with osto arthritis. I had since late 20's. Alot older. Blessing

[@mxmicah_]

ever since my grandma passed i wanted to get back into powwows and ive loved jingle since i was a child. i can't wait to put in the practice ❤️

[@staceyhildebrand7677]

Thank you for what you said at the end about foster parents. I am doing by best to support my 6 yr old to grow up with as much of her culture as she can. This video is very helpful for me to show her how to jingle dance!! Very beautiful ❤️

[@MrsCelesteB]

so beautiful

[@elizabethnahanee3285]

Thanks for sharing... I learned so much from you.

[@courtneymilne2632]

I appreciate your videos soo much!! Chi miigwetch for creating these amazing resources😍💕

[@righttradish5442]

Woliwon, this is amazing that we get to learn this online

[@aliciahess218]

I love this I was a jingle dress dancer at 6-7 and I don’t remember it because we moved away from everything thank you so much for doing this and letting us learn

[@seventhfirestephanie8740]

Thank you for mentioning Mille Lacs Band of Ojibway (the origin of the jingle dress).

[@justaweirdpersond223]

I've always been to shy to dance and doing this with you wants me to start dancing and holy old style is already a work out so I think I stay old style

[@katfrench5003]

My great grandmother was Cherokee. I barely remember her but the family had kept her alive with family history. Her grandmother escaped and hid during the forced trail of tears. I cherish what little I know. One day I hope to meet her in Heaven.

[@jeffhartson9203]

This is so awesome. Thank you for sharing. This is so neat to watch and to learn.

[@ForagingLittleMiss]

Thank you so much! My aunties always wanted me to the jingle dance. But she never got to finish, teaching me . I can now practice in her honor 🐦‍⬛

[@sherylmayo1]

Wonderful Thanks for sharing your knowledge I have a hard time with side steps Them calf’s are brutal may try the flat foot style thanks again😊

[@they_luv_me-m3u]

Thank you so much for doing this!!❤❤

[@christinecampbell3691]

Thank you so much for doing this!

[@talia4192]

Thank you for what you said about not having grown up close to the culture. My mother is from a super colonial country, where being indigenous is constantly denied and shamed. I want to learn so much but I feel like I don’t know where to start and at this point, I don’t have a connect. You’ve inspired me to look into classes or something to learn. I feel a bit overwhelmed because there are so many nations and idk. How did you do it? How did you take the first step?

[@lynnlewis7144]

Aanii Talia! This means "hi, hello, greetings," in the Anishinaabemowin language, which is the language of the Odawa(Ottawa), Ojibwe(Chippewa), Potawatomi people. I am Lynn Shagonaby-Lewis of the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians(LRBOI). You can start by trying to find out which region of the US your people/you are from, then get in touch with the Bureau of Indian Affairs to get help on tracking down your tribe. Also, continue to seek out videos likee this one and others on KZbin...there are many. Good luck to you and welcome! You can always reach out to me as well. WE are all your TRIBE...stay proud!!