thank you for the revival of the beautiful native American culture . we need you 🌅

I am Shawnee and Cherokee, but my family never really let me honor my culture. Now I am 15 and I can make the choice to honor my ancestors and learn my traditions❤️ Thank you for helping us indigenous peoples who never got the chance to learn the beauty of our heritage!

you are 1000 times correct , your identity has been hidden from you . The teachings went another way . Thanks to you and yours for keeping it real.

Im not Indian but I can respect how your culture preserves its history. Your story is that of perseverance.

I am an old Apache woman with neuropathy ravaging my legs. Yet, as I watch my young Sisters dance, my feet move with them despite it all. This video blessed me, and now I am subscribed. I have a granddaughter, and will share this with her. Oh, how they tried to kill us, and still try; ignoring us, or hurting us at every turn, yet, *here we are!* Ahééiyéé, Sister, for all that you do.

so i am mixed with white mexian and native and i am very fair its hard to tell people that im mixed and i really love that your teaching people to regain their culture because everyone on my moms side has troubles with it so i wanted to say thank you

Aww i love this!! I always wanted to be a jingle girl but I didn't want to suffer the hate from other natives/family/friends because although I grew up a native, believe in native beliefs, study our history etc etc, my skin tone is pale (dads Italian/japense) so I was afraid of others telling me im not native because I'm "white" or not "brown enough." (Suprisingly it happens quite often:(( Now today my dance class is doing an assignment on our culture/s and I wanted to jingle dance! I really hope I don't get hate from it but im really excited to try it! Thankyou!!

The comments have me in tears. This is SO powerful. This is medicine. Thank you so so much for doing this.

I havent danced in almost 15 years since my grandpa passed, you've definitely inspired me.

I’m not native,I’m Mexican,but I really like it when people teach us about their culture and their traditional dance,so beautiful ☺️

I definitely got off track when my grandmother passed away, she had a huge part in my upbringing when parents fell into addiction. I have all my regalia except moccasins. She loved watching me dance, I need to start dancing again ❤

I haven't danced since my dad passed when I was 12. But he always wanted me to dance so now I think its time to relearn it. Thank you for the video

I’m Shinnecock, I’ve been dancing & competing my whole life but I’ve always been insecure about my dancing, I have sickle cell so my body gets really tired very quick and it worsens the older I get so I stopped dancing around 4 or 5 years ago. My pow wow just ended. Spirit told me to get back in there in order to heal myself and my people as well. I’m determined, by this time next year, I will be back in my regalia at full strength 🤞🏽🪶 your videos ate helping me 🤍

My father is blackfeet he was adopted. It's so nice to yes your videos because I'm trying to learn my culture. My goal is to dance in my first powwow this coming year I'm 46. My father went missing about 20 years ago. We believe he was killed. So this is very important for me to honor his spirit.

I'm not native, but I have always honoured the Jingle Dance when being a spectator of many Pow Wows. You are so inspiring and an excellent teacher and you make it looks so easy!! Thank you for teaching us how to do this beautiful dance 🙏

I was always grown believing that I was just a darker Italian woman and that I had Italian, polish, etc, but I never looked like them. When I met people from my tribe and my history, I felt at home to see that I fit in among them. Thank you for sharing this and allowing me to see who I am 🫶🏼

Finding this has made me so very happy! I was adopted as a child and raised outside my culture and now as an adult I'm trying to reconnect and have wanted to learn this for a while!

I'm so grateful for channels like this as I reconnect. I was told my grandmother was raised on a rez in Oklahoma but all ties were broken when she married my German Jewish grandfather and moved with him back east to Georgia in the 50s. She was able to pass for white and did so (though she is listed as "c*l*red on my mothers birth cert because 1960's Georgia) and wasn't able to pass teachings to my mother as she passed over while giving my mother life. Mom learned to dance a variations of Cloth and Southern Traditional (we are eastern band cherokee) by observing and taking notes at powwows. This was in the 80's and early 90's and my mother looks mixed so she was a bit of an outcast and couldn't exactly just walk up to the elder ladies like some lost reporter and start asking questions. She made her own regalia by hand and looking back I'm so proud of her because she did this from books and hasty sketches from powwows with no internet to show her. I'm so wonderfully spoiled with sewing patterns and tutorials. I've only danced once in intertribal when I was very small. For the longest time I thought we stopped going because I'm blonde with blue eyes (my birth father is Appalachian Irish) and I thought having a white kid embarassed her. Turns out it was as simple as my birth dad wouldn't go with her and she didn't want to go unaccompanied with a child. Took me 20 years to finally ask. I was conflicted about jingle for a while because it's a newer dance and I was taught the oldest way is the best way but I've been called to it more and more over the past few years. I've prayed on it and dreamed. I hear the bells in my dreams. I haven't seen my colors yet but I will. Until then I can learn in a ribbon skirt. This is definitely not something my mother would do as she's intensely traditionalist but lets face it theres nothing traditional about me dancing improvised steps in a clearing to Young Spirit on a boom box but it makes my heart happy. As I get older I'm learning to go where my heart and spirit tell me and not just what I think others want of me.

I recently found out I have some native aunties, I’m black and I already have been interested in native culture already so I came back over to this video to learn more

Thank you so much for this, I'm mixed Native - Mi'kmaq, Wolastoqiyik, Métis, Abenaki and Huron-Wendat - and I'm white seeming and I've been reconnecting with my culture for the past few years and for the past few generations none of us knew anything about our ways and I'm the only one in the family reconnecting so it's really isolating so learning these steps are really important to me because I hope to dance at a powwow one day even if I doubt I'll ever be enrolled, this is a lifesaver 🥺💕✨

Thank you for the tutorial. I am an Lipan Apache Dad trying to teach my daughter how to Jingle dance and it's hard for me to learn the steps then teach her. Talk about alot of humbleness for a man to jingle dance for his daughter in order for her to learn. Shes 7 but been dancing at powows since she was 3. Thanks to your video she can now watch traditional dance steps from a traditional native woman and perfect her skills. Thanks again. Ishka!

My niece has been really wanting to learn the culture of the indigenous side of her family. She never had the chance to sadly, so I am sharing this with her in hopes it will help her connect to the indigenous culture she missed out on growing up.

This is great! I personally haven't been in the circle for years but I have been teaching my nieces to dance. Now one of them has a daughter, we've always had a feeling about her being a jingle dress dancer. She has recently told us that's what she wants to do. Thanks for the video! 🙏

Thank you for sharing. I lost my mother before she could teach me. I just have her regalia and I am now 25, and I feel old but I feel like starting this in my life and carrying on family traditions.

Sweating!! Love this meegwech ! I was also raised outside my culture. My auntie gifted me her jingle dress, she was giving me the low down on who you are, she was happy to see you have these video 😄

I'm only an 8th Potawatomi (Neshnabe) but my grandma still lives on a rez. We used to go visit so much more when I was a kid, & the Pow Wows were my favorite part! I've always wanted to learn how to do this. Now that I'm having a lot of chronic health issues, I've been researching the Jingle Dress Dance a lot more. Just hearing the few words you said that I could recognize made my heart smile! Looking forward to more of this channel!

I'm sooooo grateful to you for doing this video teaching. I am a displaced Native person myself. My father is Central Miwok & Northern snowbird Cherokee but I only just met him a few years ago. I grew up with my Mother and step father and they are not Native. I was always very different from everyone else in the family I grew up with but I didn't know that those differences were very indigenous until I was well into my adulthood. I've been trying to connect with that part of myself and learn everything I can since I realized that. I don't think Miwok ever had jingle dress dancing per sey, perhaps the Cherokee. I have yet to connect with anyone in my own "tribes". I have been very active with my dear friends & adopted families in Diné cultures, chiricahua Apache, Hopi, Native Hawaiian (which I am in part as well) and my Husband's tribe the Potawatomi (which I believe is fairly akin to your folks, correct me if my wrong). I'm tremendously grateful for anything I can learn. The more I learn, the more I feel like myself. A thousand thank you's for this 🙏

I was a jingle dancer when i was 5, stopped after i had a meltdown getting rushed into my rageila for grand entry so i never danced since but lately i’ve been wanting to pick it back up

thank you for your videos!! I'm in the process of reconnecting and I feel like I'm stuck because I live so far away from my community and I struggle with feeling like i don't belong or don't have a right to reclaim.

ive recently been trying to reconnect with my indigenous roots (im pretty im coahuiltecan but im still doing some more research) but there's a coahuiltecan powwow near where i live and i wanna go and dance there one day. I wanna feel the Spirit while I dance with my sisters and my brothers drum on our homeland. Thank you, this is really helpful

This is so fantastic! I'm lookin to teach my daughter traditional dances as she's a Plains cree mixed and I'm totally white so this will give her a great foundation until I can get her a guide! Thank you very much ❤

I’m an indigenous learner always wanted to learn. Thank you for this. I’ve always felt like I didn’t belong even tho I know it’s my blood and I’m so so proud of representing Mescalero Apache tribe. My uncle is an enrolled member and I hope to be one day as well. I’m following and learning for now thank you for this!

i haven’t started dancing until about a year ago, i didn’t want to because i didn’t have any regalia. traditional wear or not, dancing is health and keeps our culture alive. i dance for the ones who couldn’t. 🧡

Thank you thank you thank you for this video. I grew up in foster care, all the way in BC (my mums family is from Ontario!). My social workers tried to give us teachings, but it was all local, so not my peoples teachings at all. I never got to learn any of this. Blessed be. 💕

You should also do a video on when to know to stop during a song and push ups etc. Love your videos, so helpful.

💞💪 we are still here, thanks for creating this space✨️

This is amazing I’ve always loved watching jingle- dress dancers ever since I was young they are so beautiful and I’ve been so interested in wanting to learn I’ve never danced before and I don’t know of any family members that make regalia but I want to start by learning the basics I am an enrolled member of the Ft.Belknap Community in MT Aaniiih and Nakoda

Thank you so much for this lovely video. My Girl Scout Daisy and Brownies are going to be celebrating Native American Heritage Month and they *really* want to do a traditional dance. Little girls adore dancing! I think we can do the Jingle Dance and I am very excited to have them try it! Wish us luck!

I really appreciate this video, I'm chiricahua apache and raramuri on my dad's side but on my mom's side I'm Spanish so I'm half native and I always criticism from both sides for wanting to practice my tribal heritage because some are very Anglicanised and want to be white or American evangelical so badly. I just had enough and if my family doesn't like it then they can kick rocks, I'm indigenous and proud.

What an invaluable resource you are!!! LOVE this Big Sister Energy 💕

Thank you for bringing this to us. Proud of your pride.

Aho thank you. Love your horse energy in the dancing. May it inspire many.

I appreciate your videos soo much!! Chi miigwetch for creating these amazing resources😍💕

❤️❤️❤️❤️ you aspire me, you’re a leader and such a beautiful speaker

We are Anishinaabe and I will be showing this to my daughter. She wants to dance jingle and this will help her learn.

I love jingle dresses and the dances 💃 the way the cones sound and the moves 😍 the backstory whomever you hear it from is so beautiful and inspiring that the jingle dress still in 2021 thriving and helping indigenous people connect with themselves and there ancestors ❤

I deeply appreciate your heart felt intention sharing these sacred dances... Wado!

Thank you for this dance tutorial. I have always wondered how to learn the basic steps and it was sweet and kind of you to share this training session with us.

You inspired me to learn to dance. Thank you. I asked for dance lessons for my 16th birthday which surprised my mom.

I am very grateful to your dance lessons. I will continue to teach to dance.🙏🏾✊🏾🦅❤💯🔥

Thank you for sharing your story. You are an inspiration. Blessings.

Beautiful. That third step style truly looks like Deer Lady dancing. Magical.

I'm 3/4 Mexican n Irish this this Woman warms my heart.

beautiful i love you tradition dance and i love that you are keeping your traditions 🙏❤

I’m about to do jingle for the first time and I appreciate it so much that you made this tutorial!!

I haven’t danced in 5 years and I love that you helping fellow indigenous peoples I’m hoping I’ll be able to dance again whenever this pandemic is over

I have danced fancy and traditional most of my life but jingle is something I want to do too so thank you for this.

It's very good what you're doing that you're showing your heritage and everything I'm Comanche and Pueblo Indian Comanche from my great grandfather's side and Pueblo Indian from my grandmother's side and Hispanic so I always tell people whatever you are be proud and I always love seeing the jingle dances and all the other dances and going to pow wows

Dancing for my first time since I was a tiny tot this weekend for my late cousins memorial special for DV - thank you for this!

I love your videos, they are so great! As part Miami (also a former dancer) & never getting to grow up in my own heritage, thank you so much for teaching these steps. Next time I’m at a powwow, I don’t think I’ll be too embarrassed/uncomfortable to participate in Intertribal. Please keep making videos, these are wonderful & you are a great teacher. 💖

Your dancing is beautiful. I can't help but see some similarities between your dances and the Irish step dancing. There's legends in my very very very old Irish family who were sea fairing people who traded good with the indigenous peoples here. For thousands of years so I wonder who taught who? Or did they learn together? I like to think maybe our people's learned together whatever they did together out worked because it's not in any history book and there were no wars over what they did together. 🙄❤

Thank you so much for doing this!!💕 I have felt lost for a long time. I lost contact with everyone I knew when I was younger who was teaching to dance. I never gave up the dream of wanting to dance. Thank again, you are amazing ❤😭

The dance is about going forward, spirituality & physically healing. Aho, chi-migwich for demonstrating.

Hi, great video. I am visually impaired, so I love that you add a description to what you were doing. I am studying in Vermont, and I'm going to try to learn some Abenakee language.

ever since my grandma passed i wanted to get back into powwows and ive loved jingle since i was a child. i can't wait to put in the practice ❤️

Thank you for what you said at the end about foster parents. I am doing by best to support my 6 yr old to grow up with as much of her culture as she can. This video is very helpful for me to show her how to jingle dance!! Very beautiful ❤️

I just found your channel, you are beautiful and I love your native dancing. I’m not native but always wanted to be. ❤️

So beautiful. Thank you for sharing the knowledge.

I love this I was a jingle dress dancer at 6-7 and I don’t remember it because we moved away from everything thank you so much for doing this and letting us learn

I am going to start dancing again, I also dance fancy but I love traditional Jingle and the story of how the dance came to be.

Love this! I’ve only been dancing old style jingle for a couple of years now. I was told not to shuffle when dancing. I wonder how that started. I’ve also seen a lot of dancers sort of scoop when they’re stepping which I love but can’t do that well, I’m too uncoordinated lol. Thanks for posting! 💕

so beautiful

Thank you. It's good that YT offered me these lessons. I was curious about this dance because it is very pretty. The music is hypnotizing. I live in Poland, in Europe. The history of our peoples; Natives Americans and Poles (Polish) in the 19th century was very similar, which is why I have always liked the culture of Natives A. so much.

Thanks for this extremely helpful video that slows it down so we can see what’s happening. I have seen videos where the teacher goes so quickly you can’t follow. I have no intention of doing this dance since I’m not in the group. However, I’m watching it to appreciate dancers better when I’m at pow wows

I never had the option to be able to dance and I've always wanted to learn. I don't plan on dancing at pow wows or anything i just want to learn so i love your videos! I'm a maid so i listen to pow wow music and practice dancing while i clean....lol I bet some of the client's look at back their cameras and see me dancing around their home's and think I'm crazy. But your videos have been a big help i have been practicing this dance in particular. Thank you for these videos!!!

Thank you for this video. My teen wants to dance in the Pow Wow many years later. It's her first one she was taught the Old Style before but has forgotten. This was a very good refresher. Wado

Thank you this would help with osto arthritis. I had since late 20's. Alot older. Blessing

Kataputush (thank you) for posting this video it was very helpful and informative! I have been wanting to learn how to jingle dance for years but as a child never had anyone I could learn from. I am thankful that as an adult I now have the opportunity.

This is so awesome. Thank you for sharing. This is so neat to watch and to learn.

Grateful, helpful to pay more attention, understand different steps , Again thank you Will try to pass this on to my daughter, only hope she will give it some deep thought

Gratitude and love to you sister! I recently (3yrs ago) discovered my Taino Indian lineage... The Tainos had a symbiotic relationship w the Native Americans and other tribes across the Caribbean islands. When Columbus allegedly discovered America it was the Dominican republic where he ended up shipwrecked and would've have died on the beach but my people gave them nourishment & shelter welcomed them w love... Long story short his regime was responsible for the genocide & (almost) extinction of the Taino in fact it wasn't til recently it was discovered 5% had escaped to the mountains of Cuba where they slowly added to our numbers & flourished in hiding... I LOVE what YOU are doing on this channel!! I'm subscribed & can't wait to watch all your vids!!

Thank you posting and making these! Me and my daughter are gonna watch your videos to learn!

Thank you for sharing these.

I'm so glad you do these videos. I am part Cherokee and I've always wanted to get more in touch with Native American traditions and ceremonies. Even more lately I've wanted to learn to dance and connect with the Earth more and I'm so glad there are easily accessible resources (like your videos as well as others) to teach many of these things since my Cherokee great grandmother died when I was very young and my grandmother doesn't have any knowledge she can/wants to pass on.

Thank you so much! I danced when I was a kid but I grew away from it but I’m a senior in high school now and I want to get back into it

Thank you so much for doing this!!❤❤

Thanks for sharing... I learned so much from you.

You’re amazing! Thank you so much for sharing this I’ve always been in the powwow circle but I stopped dancing and really need help reclaiming it

Thank you so much! My aunties always wanted me to the jingle dance. But she never got to finish, teaching me . I can now practice in her honor 🐦‍⬛

I swear I'm going to cry. I'm Numu and a triditional dancer whos always just took the tobacco and prayed with it everytime a jingle dress dancer was asked apond... and your video is proof, that teaching our traditional ceremony, that started here in Nevada, is real! thank you so much! I've longed to watch a video like this.. Pesa U, thank you from my tribe here at the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony... Please come back to the powwow in Hungry Valley! Numaga Indian Days

This gave my confidence to dance again Thank you!

i want to learn so bad, im Lipan Apache and I'm learning more and more about myself (and my ancestors🧡) ever since my grandfather died. THANK YOU for this video. Aheeiyeh ♡

What you are doing is so beautiful. I am metis raised european but I always felt something was missing until I started pursuing my indigenous side. I struggle with not feeling indigenous enough. I look white and I am so mixed i get imposter syndrome a lot and fear that I will not be accepted in pow wow circles outside of my city where I am known.

Thank you so much for doing this!

Awh thank you for this. I really want to learn how to dance. Your visuals are perfect for me

I've always been to shy to dance and doing this with you wants me to start dancing and holy old style is already a work out so I think I stay old style

Thank you for what you're doing. Im trying to teach my daughter gingle. Hopefully all will be ready for her to dance next season ❤ 🙏

Thank you so much for sharing!

Me encanta sus bailes hermoso..gracias por enseñar y explicar cómo se baila..hermoso..saludos desde panamá🙋👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️❤️

I’ve been watching the jingle dancing...fascinating. I can guarantee I will be dancing in the kitchen while cooking! I have Irish, English, and Cherokee heritage.