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You can only dance if you're an enrolled tribal member, which means someone like me even though I identify myself as American Indian/Native American (Ute, Pueblo, Cahuilla) I can't dance. Even though I grew up going to powwows and watching ladies jingle and fancy shawl, I could never learn or enter the competition because my tribe doesn't do competitive dancing...really harsh on my heart and inspiration. If only there was a radical change in tribal enrollment, and laws...people like me who love Native people who I identify with wouldn't have to suffer discrimination and hate.

Always treat a darkened signal as a STOP sign. Also, if you have to explain how the signal works, you have lost the battle, as exemplified by the Semi blowing the RED at 1:29 as well as the UPS vehicle failing to stop for a Flashing Red (which means STOP) at 2:26

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Wado radiant dancers! May the traditions, songs and dances live through future generations🙏🏽

Aaniin, I’ll never forget Marge helping me 28 years ago when I worked for the Minnesota State Senate. Her words and encouragement still helps me today. Miigwech.

Couldn't find any footage without a motorist running the stop light? Oh well...

1:29 A semi truck just ran the light. A truck just ran the light. A TRUCK JUST RAN THE LIGHT. Is nobody going to talk about how a truck just ran that light? Are you kidding me? This street CANNOT exist. You can't have a 6 lane highway that people need to cross with a million dollar signal that doesn't stop semi trucks. That's insane. NARROW THE STREET. You people will be responsible for needless deaths. HAWK doesn't work. Narrow streets work.

make roads designed for humans not cars. Jesus Christ

Giant truck barrels though while walk sign is on

Thankyou for being the Good Medicine Blessings our Earth Mother needs and for dancing for those amongst us who cannot...prayers rising eternally Mitakuye Oyasin.

These are totally awesome traffic signals. 😊

Good

Bellissime e dignitose le native americane.

i love this video.

i can understand a bit is this saulteaux ?

They move so gracefully and beautifully ❤ i love there regailia

tornado siren in the back

i used to dance when i was very young but i was always getting sick as a child getting pneumonia put a great toll on my dancing. i was born with a lung disease called bronchiectasis. when i was around 7 an Ojibwa elder told my mom that she invited me to do jingle because it would heal me. im 26 years old now and i want to dance in jingle still.. but it seems like my age and my disease is starting to catch up to me faster than i thought... im very sad that i cannot dance as long as i want anymore but i still try my hardest to. @mille lacs band of ojibwe

I'm Indonesian, Scottish and live in the Netherlands. I wish I could dance like you, with you. Be part of your connection.

Change can only come from the bottom up. We can only save ourselves. Happy to see that the one thing the Band is not lacking in is people wanting to fight for a better future.

This system is a lawsuit waiting to happen. I deal with this system and I don't recommend it at all. I have no idea who thought of this system but it is super dangerous.

Wonderful tradition ❤

Beautiful I so grateful to get the meaning of jingle dresses. Thank you 🙏🏾

By everything within me, Thank you. 💜

It sounds amazing. I’ve never heard or seen anything like this in my life. I wish I was a Native American, cause I wanna make a bad ass warrior suit.

I enjoyed this.

For anyone Indigenous who wants to learn or brush up on some moves, there's a Young Aunty on TH-cam with a whole channel for you 😍!! It's called How to Powwow Dance, she posted a link that got me here 👍🏾💕

3:24 yes! DeConditioning the painful denials and self-doubt created by others of a very different (indirect, prejudiced, non-experiential) beLIEf system ... restoring our Direct Understanding of Gidinawendimin ᑭᑎᓇᐌᓐᑎᒥᓐ 🙏🏽❤⨁⭕🔥 4:45 strive to reunite all of humanity in a return to Balance, Respect, Gratitude and AWE for ALL of creation ✊🏽🙏🏽

Absolutely beautiful dance I can't get enough of these wonderful people ❤️ and their culture big love from Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

I remember watching this as a little girl. I wish I was more in touch with Native American culture

Maggie White White Fish Bay Ontario Canada

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At 18:40 Not Pops telling the girls no twerking in the jingle dresses!!!!! LMAOOOOOOOOO

I love this video and tell the legend of the jingle dress on my tours.

So nice to hear your language! Thank you for the story of the jingle dress, and the dancers!

Thank you for sharing your historical stories with the world. It is true we often give wrong descriptions and convey wrong and misleading opinions. These stories must be kept and passed on, generation to generation our living connection to the past. We to have what we call tikanga, protocol when gathering in large groups where there are different roles for both gender, something drastically changing in these times, influenced from outside of our culture. Our regalia as you rightly say, were actually practical and were every day ware. To understand one's protocol we look to the past. Everything has a beginning, we call whakapapa, genealogy the core of our traditions. Adhere and hold on to your traditions protect your whakapapa. Nga reira te nei te mihi kia kotou, noho ora mai. Greetings from New Zealand.

Wonderful educational so appreciate this. Thankyou.

Ahe’e..Very much appreciated indeed..Dear Sisters.. Walk and Dancing in Beauty…

Otoe/Kiowa: Bear clan

Beautiful (Healing)..in the 50's at the age of 3, in that period of time kid's across the country were getting sick and passing away..I to became very sick my grandparents didn't want me to stay in the hospital,said people were passing away in them. so they took me home,my grandma was kneeing on my left doctoring me while I was laying down..while my other grandparents sat all around me all night singing & praying .. about 7:am I heard bird's chirping and kid's laughing and playing outside,suddenly I sat up,my grandmother gently layed me back down,while my other grandparents around me ..what seemed like congratulating each other,my grandmother was rubbing something on my chest then put a t.shirt on me gave me something to drink and let me go play outside,I was healed overnight ...I to would hear them singing!

Much love, respect and honour from Bonnie Scotland 💙❤️✊✨🙏

Very nice documentary, from the source of the Jingle Dress. Nice production values and the storyline laced with speakers was great! Amazing the relaxed confidence of letting the camera crew into your lives for this film. I'm not Native, but I filmed powwows for 10 years. I never forced my way in, people got to know me over time, and a lot of good things happened. So, I heard many powwow emcees talk about Jingle Dress, publicly, and I was given some knowledge from certain persons in conversation. It used to be a society dance. I've heard old stories of veteran dancers telling unknown females to get out of the dance circle because they were never "brought-in" by a veteran dancer. The "Giveaway tradition" when a new dancer is introduced to the entire powwow was always something awesome to stand & watch. Years later, I see those dancers and I greet them "I remember when they danced you in". For the non-powwow persons, this is just one example of many things that happen during the weekend powwow gathering. It is "Indian time, for Indian People" but they leave an opening for the public to see that they are Still Here. Attend the public powwows, and follow protocols as a visitor. Watch the dancers, and feel the drum and the singers. Respect. Thank you to everbody working on this film, and those appearing in it.

This is so beautiful to learn about. As I learn more about my Potawatomi lineage, I seek to understand more of the traditions and good medicine. Someone mentioned shoes, and I wondered if there were certain shoes you should not dance in?

noise drives away evil spirts ? jingle dance rules

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Greetings from Germany.I love my Native American people 🙏💖

MIIGWECH FOR Sharing your Teachings 🧡🇨🇦

Ohhh where have you been all my life?!?!

Beautiful!!!