Raven Sutherland Jingle dress dance

The jingle dress dance comes from the Ojibwe people in Ontario and is known to be a healing dance. As Indigenous people, we believe in the healing of this medicine.
I was called to the jingle dress dance at a very young age and have now been a jingle dancer for over 10 years. For me, dancing means healing, love, and the honour of carrying on such an important gift given to us by the Creator.

[@mkguy4u530]

Chi-Miigwech for sharing! Not sure people will realise the, actual, weight of these Jingle Dresses and the stamina it takes to dance these intricate steps, so delightfully, wonderfully and expressively. A highly commendable credit to her Nation.

[@carmenromero5230]

MKGuy 4u, I was ready to make the same comment but I noticed you beat me to it. This girl is so beautiful and a very gracious dancer. She shows her talent while dancing with a very heavy skirt. Aho!

[@mkguy4u530]

@@carmenromero5230 Thank you for your reply and further comment, Carmen. A'ho! We are certainly in agreement. The movement and grace are poetic, a symphony of motion, harmony and balance.

[@ianmelonie6440]

Have help make a jingle dress for a friend of mine I can assure you that I do know how heavy they are ….. I use to do powwows in the UK I’m not a Native American

[@mkguy4u530]

@@ianmelonie6440 My comment was a generalisation. Interesting that you have helped to make a Jingle Dress, for a friend of yours and as a consequence, are aware of the weight of them and the physical effort it would take to dance so elegantly when wearing regalia of this style. Thank you for your contribution.

[@jackasschicken5922]

I am positive that I have no idea how much these dresses weigh. Please tell me!

[@BabalonNuit]

Beautiful! Her hair is so beautiful and long, and her outfit is magnificent!

[@curiouskitten4351]

This is such a perfect place to dance! The sound comes through so clearly and her grace looks so effortless.

[@missyme001]

❤❤❤❤❤❤💯💯💯🌟🌟🌟🔥🔥🔥

[@JoseVicenteGarciaLopez]

Great dress and Raven looking great. 😊

[@NATIVESUNSETS65]

The Spirit Beings of the forest loved watching her to 👀🐾🐾🐺🦬🐻🪶🦅

[@oc2phish07]

There is so much beauty and majesty in native American/Canadian dance and culture.

[@Ron-id1ze]

American/Canadian what’s that

[@lukevandeman4914]

This video reminds me so much of my Grandfather walking. He had soo many keys!

[@francescolovetere3910]

Elegance and grace: This dance is gorgeous.

[@sariru2338]

Feels like nature when i closed my eyes 🤍

[@barkingfromnewmexico9448]

The nature setting hilights the beautiful dancer and her purple regalia. Loved it.

[@dragonsword7370]

The setting and the dress and it's colors mesh Really well together even though most would think otherwise!

[@TrustaMann]

Bit noisy though

[@thedesertwarrior7447]

Aheeiyéé, Sister. You do great honor to The Creator, and to your Nation. Many blessings! Aoó!

[@coleengoodell7523]

Oh yes! Dance is used in so many cultures on so many continents as a way of honoring the creator and of warding off negative or unclean spirits and as a poweful force in battle. Stunning dress. Love the color. ♾

[@lolitatexan4838]

As a visual impaired person this is my favorite dance. It gets intense the more women are added.

[@IUSTITA]

Very woke.

[@angelvaldez8048]

Her dance is like the sound of rain. How beautiful.

[@edwardbright9434]

Thts great she's fabulous dancing

[@Joseph-dv7ow]

You’re a very good dancer,very talented young lady ❤️🌹😘

[@frankgaletzka8477]

Absolut großartig. Es ist gut zu sehen das es Menschen gibt die diese Traditionen bewahren und leben ❤❤

[@gerryroush8391]

TSI-TSA-LA-GI WE N' DE YA HO 🪶🐺 HERZ DANK 😊 mein Herr My AUNT Frances was born in Bremen Braunschweig Holstein 🎉

[@frankgaletzka8477]

@@gerryroush8391 i live in Germany near Braunschweig near the Harz Mountains. Between Braunschweig and Goslar Greetings Frank

[@OFallons]

So absolutely APPRECIATE YOUR most beautiful “ARTISTRY OF BEING”, your SOUL SHINES the LIGHT of LIFE ❤ 🙏🏼 ! Let nothing diminish your Being of who you TRULY are! 🙏🏼🦅

[@TheDejael]

She walks and dances in beauty in the forest, and the animals are all charmed by her beauty. She moves with grace, causing a peacefulness among the people.

[@juanestrada8605]

Beauty : don't repeat two times in two lines.

[@viv1tony2]

⁠​⁠@@juanestrada8605The sentiment was very thoughtful. Please save your grammar lesson for somewhere more fitting. Your grammar isn’t very good either. You could have worded your sentence much better.

[@FireRupee]

​@@viv1tony2 Yeah, nah. The OP comment's kinda cringe.

[@sheldondillon]

when I die I wanna come back as 1 of those little jingles and just hang around all day

[@barbarapierson402]

Young, talented, lovely, and a credit to her Tribe. Thank you for sharing this. It was beautifully done!🌸🌺

[@richardsayers1431]

We don’t go by tribes in Canada it’s First Nations.

[@eforita5800]

Meegwetch for saying Barbara! She is

[@Chauiepearlie7777]

I love nature and I had a butterfly land on my hand today so happy 😁

[@paulcoverdale8312]

Keepin your history an lifestyle alive an well. Thanks for this guys. ❤❤❤🙏🙏👍👍👊👊🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@mitchellmcdowell8546]

Like Highland Dancing: so much more difficult than it at first appears. And it requires stamina and grace.👍👍

[@annab4375]

.. funny you mention Highland dancing, it's what came to me too watching ...

[@deanframe9095]

I saw one in a museum! THANKS, very Awesome! A dress as a percussion instrument.

[@caleahrose7204]

No wonder this is a healing dance, for someone going through something right.now..hearing and seeing this being done. Really brings me some kind of healing. ❤️ Amazing, glad to see that there are still traditional dances being kept

[@3mountains307]

Beautiful rhythm. It took a while to become apparent, but the rhythm drew me in. Energizing and calming at the same time. Thank you.

[@JlJpo5960]

Beautiful and culturally its our own. Beautiful woman. 💯❤️

[@myreallife6386]

Wow, thank you for sharing this. The jingles sound so different out in nature on soil, among the trees. I can hear it as water running over stones, in small waterfalls. It sounds like there is chanting at a distance, and that also sounds like nature. Everything together sound alike an amplification of natural forest sounds. ❤

[@prettykygreen]

She can hear that call from far away! Beautiful!❤

[@anthonymcneill1465]

Indeed, I enjoyed watching her dance and it was beautiful. Thanks for sharing!

[@GaryBailey-hk4ex]

Absolutely beautiful, talented,and wonderful!!! Gary Bailey KingofDarkness God of Thunder and Lightning ⚡🌩️

[@gonzalobernal9854]

❤Takes a lot of energy and coordination the dances you do, very impressed…🥰🥰

[@donnasanchez5484]

Beautiful all the way around. You couldn't find a better serene place to dance for Mother Earth. People wonder what I'm doing when I'm dancing in the stores.

[@user-es5xd6pe1y]

I was blessed to have family that were hoop dancer's i just was in charge of cooking the food 😀

[@m.jewell9107]

Like the jingle dancing, hoop dancing is lovely, almost hypnotic!

[@notoriousqueenpigeon]

beautiful hearing the drums and singing in the background, and this dancer danced into the forest to make the video for all of us that need to connect to our culture, and are unable to attend Pow Wows in person. amazing.

[@Joseph-dv7ow]

You’re my people, I love you all ❤️🌹😘🙏

[@ibdaffy]

So very glad to see younger people keeping tradition alive. Thank you for this very pleasing insight into the culture.

[@jimrebr]

I love Jingle dancers, that is a weighty dress, but she represents her tribe beautifully, yes, those steps are intricate and hard to do. I know how hard, but so much joy and honor to witness her dedication ❤

[@MegaCassie83]

I was posting about a situation for information purposes and got physically ill. I remember that anytime I feel this way When I hear and see the jingle dress dance it heals me. So I am glad To see this. Thank you

[@user-cm9uc1vz9s]

Beautiful and talented !!!! 😘😘😘😘👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@patrickdaly5068]

Beautiful! This would be beautiful regardless, but purple is my favorite color, so that makes it even more special.

[@michaelengland6534]

Glad i am seeing a lot of videos like this now.

[@kaashee]

I’m breathless just watching it. Hats off to you, lady!

[@ButcherBird-FW190D]

Nice outfit and a very pretty lady. Cool dance.

[@heathersmith8549]

Beautiful. The sound of the jingles is Powwow ASMR

[@beverlymiller182]

Now that's what you call dancing 💃Beautiful dress and a gorgeous young lady.

[@TerranceLewis-cd1wf]

As a native American Choctaw nation i think you are great 🎉🎉

[@gerryroush8391]

TSI-TSA-LA-GI WE N' DE YA HO🪶🐺

[@antoniocordero2574]

simplemente maravilloso I LOVE IT

[@jasonrodgers9063]

Enchanting! Thanks for posting!

[@donnalayton6876]

Thank you for beautiful dance.

[@leaderjon2866]

Absolutely stunning ❤

[@elderguy]

Very nice 👍. Well done young lady! Thank you for posting this!🙂

[@saracummins1]

Beautiful!! Water IS LIFE 🤍

[@radioniktv8218]

Завораживает.

[@Joseph-dv7ow]

You’re a very talented young lady, I love your dancing skills, you’re very attractive and extremely beautiful ❤️🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹❤️😘

[@tashenamason]

Gross.

[@ladyliberty5771]

Beautiful dress, beautiful execution, and beautiful environment. I give her a lot of credit given heat, and the weight of the regalia/dress. Miigwech 💗

[@deirdrecorey3876]

OMG!! So beautiful!! My calves burned just watching you!! You make it look so easy & natural. What talent!! Gorgeous!!!

[@selinainsel6198]

I can see this dance in my daughter in law. Her Grandad was native he came to England WW2. Her hair is so thick and grows so fast. I admire her greatly and feel blessed to have her and my grandchildren by her It’s hard to explain but she is like this dance ?

[@user-xi4rz2ku4d]

Beautiful dance and natural place.

[@arwenstepak7581]

Absolutely beautiful

[@himansusabar5206]

Nature is Always Gorgeous..❤❤❤❤❤

[@TheDejael]

I only have three photographs of my Shawnee grandmother Wa-apa-tee-wis ("White Feather"). She was born in a tipe village near Old Shawneetown, Illinois, about 1884, and died of pneumonia in 1929 in Indianapolis at the age of about 44. Pity I never knew her, my father's mother First photo was her high school graduation portrait, taken in 1902, hand color tinted, and she was made up to look like a white woman. She hated it. Then, a photo of her in sepiatone taken at the Marion County Fair in Indianapolis in 1916, where she was dancing under a tree in a pretty buckskin dress with a few shells on it, holding a tambourine. The last photo I have of her was taken at her wedding to my grandfather, James Harrison Long (1886-1963) in 1917, also sepiatone, showing her in a wedding dress she made herself, of indigenous styles and materials. My father lovingly wrote "Mother" across the top of the photo. I did, however, know her real biological brother, Russell Running Horse, aka: Russell Morgan Fleetwood (1886-1976) who lived in Indianapolis from 1920 to his passing. I met him in 1959 on a family reunion trip there from Los Angeles with my Dad, at age 12, and I spent the day with my great uncle Russell, who told me stories of our Shawnee heritage, and he gave me the name Wapahilo ("Soaring Eagle") which I proudly display at Pow-Wows. I love to participate in the Round Dance, the Sacred Circle of our People, and enjoy watching the dancers in all their finery.

[@alvarosolano-jb1qq]

❤❤❤❤❤❤ love your spirit

[@kittys.2870]

Thank You

[@heatheralice89]

Wonderful foot work with dancing ❤

[@gothicexplorer1990]

Wonderful, beautiful, and good luck to you.

[@RTL2L]

Beautiful! Love from Russia.

[@Sunbirdinthesky]

Hi from France... I have lately developped an interest in caucasian dances and the YT algorythmn brought me here...🙂

[@tomahawk5959]

Beautifully done

[@lolitatexan4838]

Just beautiful

[@user-bc5km3cr3i]

Gracias for sharing Raven, we appreciate it. Que bella eres. Dios te bendiga.

[@MakeLoveNotWar865]

Very beautiful. ❤

[@thomasjefferson1010]

Beautiful.

[@jeanlawson9133]

Awesome the rhythm I bet takes time to learn, I originally came from a Town called Raven....

[@Zinwaq]

She's magnificent!

[@Stormsong93]

I heckin' love our culture.

[@cheryldixon2740]

Really beautiful ❤❤❤

[@ghalebibrahim7553]

Thanks for the dance.

[@TrustaMann]

When jingle dress noises are emitted while someone is trying to play Pac-Man

[@asmrfitness2]

Beautiful ❤

[@flowerpower2079]

Good job!

[@singer2be256]

That dress is beautiful

[@baneetdhillon3912]

I love this ❤

[@milgeekmedia]

Is there anywhere online you can read up on the history of Jingle Dancing, particularly if it has information about when 'contemporary' dance moves began? Thank you all. Wonderful video, 👍

[@redneckgirl3326]

Yes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk7Ch...

[@barbarapierson402]

Google it

[@tfla6894]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/qXjHeJ2kq6aci9U jingle dress project, has some information about it's beginning

[@sgt1terrence]

@@barbarapierson402 google gets things wrong about our culture. especially what it says about the two spirit people.

[@sgt1terrence]

Go to a pow wow and talk to us. talk to a jingle dress dancer. DONT be scared of us. We're here to learn from each other.

[@jeanettewyatt9525]

love, love love

[@angel-no5sy]

Beautiful ❤️

[@celestekelly8405]

Beautiful ❤️. Family's ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@imnotbilly8480]

Love her name.. same as my daughter!!

[@John-tl5fi]

Thank you 🙏

[@TheDejael]

My people were the Shawnee and they also had a special female dance like this, but without the jingles. Probably the rhythm was given by drummers.

[@leonardarola]

Thank you.

[@markmontgomery698]

Amazing indeed artfully and culturely Beautiful ❤️🌹🧐

[@vanessawade4570]

LOVE IT❤❤❤!!!

[@lazyles875]

She so beautiful in her purple outfit

[@darz3829]

This reminds me of Halloween.

[@colorbugoriginals4457]

This is amazing! :)

[@karenjarrett8904]

Beautiful

[@annkennedy7935]

Pretty cool ❤

[@user-oi3xy9xz7m]

Необычно конечно. На любителя такой танец.

[@curiousnomadic]

Outstanding

[@uwillnevahno6837]

I love watching Native American videos. I don't understand how in 2020 we're filming w/240p.

[@johnganshow5536]

Cool!!