I’ve never competed myself and I’m 34 years old. I’m having regalia made but will most likely dance during intertribal to build up my dance style (Jingle) and get better. Maybe one day I’ll compete. :)

It's clever! I wear an Eastern cloth regalia with side-seam leggings, so I rigged up a little string attachment on the top that goes right onto the shorts I wear under the wrap skirt. Works perfectly! Necessity is certainly the mother of invention.

lmao right!

Loretta 253 same I feel so dumb to I didn’t think of it to

Cool video! What tribe of Native are you? I'm Cherokee.

you all probably dont care but does anyone know a way to get back into an Instagram account..? I stupidly forgot the account password. I would appreciate any help you can give me.

I’m also having regalia made and have never competed myself. I’m 34 and getting into this later in life lol. For now, I’ll just be dancing during intertribal to work on my dance style and footwork. Maybe one day I’ll compete.

Kainoa black eagle has lots

Don't cause trouble simple

Don't drink alcohol or do drugs when an elder tells you to do something do it

Your just jealous cause a long time ago we enjoyed nature and white people came killing natives cause we had gold its just money y do u guys just care about money some people are poor

BE RESPECTFUL. Stay in your area.

@@joyamongstforeverspark5422 Are there specific areas at a powwow that are no go areas? i.e. just for dancers and just for guests? :)

“Outfit” works fine too. Just as long as it’s not referred to as a costume.

I agree

It's a modern trend. Historically, we used nature to give us pigments and colors, so they were by and far on the side of muted, deep earth tones. Leather could be given many colors in the tanning stage, but they were still muted earth tones as well. As trade with colonizers grew, so did our fabrics, beads and colors.

What tribe are you from

Mine are in the front I am a Jingle Dancer and I make 3 Jingle dresses a year for my self and I have 28 grandchildren outta all of them only 3 dance. I make all of there Regalia And i am way over 55 if that tells you how long I have been making dresses.

Me too...

They made fun of you? Why...there should be no reason im pretty sure outsiders do pow wows

My mom is 25% and my grandfather is an even higher quantum. I'm basically white and it's given me lots of insecurities about it. I grew up away from the reservation, but my grandfather grew up on it. My grandfather is way darker and experienced racism. But often folks mistook him for Italian. Italians tend to have darker skin tones that other Europeans so it makes sense. Basically, I'm just trying to say that race is a flimsy thing to base identity on. Our ancestors don't give a crap about it. They just want to see their cultural legacy live in through their children. Preserving physical looks and aspects can never be an authentic replacement for embracing the old wisdom and keeping the traditions alive. You can be 100% native, but if the knowledge of your family tree and culture is lost, its still a disappearance of Native American identity. I've started to do research and attempt beadwork in the style of my tribe as a way to heal my insecurities. Just live your truth and if your ancestors are calling you, listen. Natives just want to gatekeep the identity because of people who are "pretendians". But having a genuine connection to the identity even if you're majority another race doesn't make you pretending.

Gigi, so sorry that you had a negative experience at the powwows. There is nothing wrong with being mixed. My background feels like United Nations.

I've never met a native american making fun of a person dancing by the color of their skin or the native blood percentage. 75 % aren't even native dancing nowadays. I meet a few people from states away in the church groups and they admit the aren't even native just want to do it for fun. I don't know why they want to. But maybe they smile and you take it wrong? Many light skinned people do that. My kids feel like that but my elders smile and stare because they are proud. Not making fun of them.

Yep! Every now and then I buy a dress to support friends and wear their work, but 80% of the time it's my own work

+Brittney Shki-Giizis WHHAAST. NO THONGS..LOL

+Brittney Shki-Giizis WHAT DO D FUR ROUN UR BRAIDS MEAN..

+Brittney Shki-Giizis THUTJU WUZ GON SHOW UR TATSSZZ,..LOL.. DAAAYYUUUM LOTA ENGINEERING N OUTFITS HUH.. VHUNDER BAR..

TCHOH DHAHZ spell correctly

under my umbrella Ella they aren’t minks, that is a river otter

Naya C. Thank you, I do my own beadwork ☺

@@brittneyshki-giizis2358 what tribe are your from

jlnocal559 in some tribes, one braid means your single, 2 braids mean your married or with a companion, the teachings are somewhat different with feathers, nowadays people wear the amount of feathers they are either gifted or chosen to wear, it's entirely personal preference now, elders might say otherwise but that's when you need teachings to back yourself up on why you choose that way, elders have a full right to question your entire regalia if they so choose, it's all about respect is all

+runningbear gardner A GERL DANCER I KNEW A LONG TIME AGO. TOLD. IF UR MARRIED R N RELATIONSHIP.UR HAIR IS N A SINGLE BRAIDDWN D BAK. N IF SINGLE.U HAVE TWO BRAIDS. CUSS U BRAID UR OWN HAIR..FOR MEN I MEAN..

TCHOH DHAHZ Could I wear 3 braids if I have 2 wives? :-)

+Native Atheist SHIT YE MAN.. I DO DREDS CUZ I GOT SO MANY.. DIFFERENT COLOR TIE AT D ENDS FOR EACH WIFE..

I dance old style fancy ☺

mine too!!!! i never heard (alwayse put zipper in the fronT) also she called her yoke a cape.... wth?? even on her dress it looks like zipper belongs in back lol she straigght up put every thing on backwards i feel like her yoke is on backwards too..... idk tho lol dress looks more traditional then fancy too

Teena Piotrowski when women’s fancy first started, women were wearing their buckskin dresses way before the modern dresses, the skirted cotton or satin dresses now are the contemporary, also women’s fancy didn’t have a shawl back then either, it’s weird to me how a lot of young native dancers I have met don’t know the original styles and outfits of some of the dances, I was taught by my elders that before you even touch a regalia, learn the history and meaning of the dance, I see nowadays with the younger dancers there’s a lot of “look at me look at me look at me”, but when questioned they have now idea, it’s up to the adults to teach so there aren’t any confusion of the category someone dances

she is white

+Brielle Hedgepeth native

Her home community is dokis First Nation, she is a proud anishinaade woman, so what if she is half white and native, so am I and i pow wow dance