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Almost every Ojibwe or Dakota powwow includes the jingle dress dance, and there are several versions of it.
It's characterized by the light footwork danced close to the ground and the jingle of the metal cones..
The Jingle Dress is a prayer or medicine dance to help heal afflicted people.
Most stories point to the origins among the Ojibwe of the Minnesota-Ontario boundary area, circa 1900 to 1920.
Notice, the rows of decorative metal cones hang about 1 inch from the dresses and clink together as the dancer moves..
The dance is like a prayer so the sounds kind of carry into heaven.
Over the decades, the Ojibwe women spread the jingle dress tradition to other Native American communities and the jingle dress became a "flourishing tradition adopted by many tribal people," Child said..
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