Navajo jingle dress dancers raise awareness about issues facing Native Americans today.

A Navajo photographer and his daughters took the "jingle dress" dance on a journey across the country to bring spiritual healing and bring attention to indigenous issues.

The story of the Jingle Dress Dance traces to the 1920s with the Ojibwe tribe around Wisconsin, Minnesota and Ontario, according to Google’s explanation.

At its heart, the jingle dress is a cultural phenomenon, with a distinctive look and sound that, like drums, has become almost synonymous with Native American ritual and celebration.

Suddenly, jingle dress dancers appeared and started performing the traditional Ojibwe healing dance, with the bison slowly joining in. “All of a sudden, I felt like I was at peace,” Tapahe says.

The Jingle Dress dance originated with the Ojibewea (Ojibwe) Tribe a century ago, possibly during the 1918 influenza epidemic, according to Native American history and art sources.

Anderson said she has not danced the jingle dance herself — she has never dreamed of a jingle dress, she said. But when she hears the dresses and the dancers approach, it draws a definite response.

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The dress, used for the jingle dress dance, is sprinkled with about four hundred small metal cones, called ziibaaska’iganan in Ojibwe, the language of the tribe from which the dress originated.

Denfeld High School senior gives gift of healing with jingle dress dance Denfeld senior Carmen Gordon, 18, is a member of the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa.

The exact origin of the jingle dress is unclear; evidence suggests the tradition may have started in Minnesota a century ago. But they're now a part of powwows and other Native American gatherings ...