jingle dance. healing dance....The dance itself began just over a century ago ... According to the story told by elders of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe… there was a man who kept having a dream of four women who were dancing. They each wore a dress of a different color (red, blue, green, yellow) and each dress was decorated with metal cones that bumped together when they danced to make jingling sounds. The man told his wife about the dream and showed her the dance steps he saw. She and other community women created the dresses. At the same time, the man’s daughter was very sick. She was hardly able to move in her bed. When the women put on the special dresses and began to dance, the girl moved and began to watch them. By the end of the evening, the little girl was healed.
jingle dance. healing dance....The dance itself began just over a century ago ...
According to the story told by elders of the Mille Lacs Band of
Ojibwe… there was a man who kept having a dream of four
women who were dancing. They each wore a dress of a different
color (red, blue, green, yellow) and each dress was decorated
with metal cones that bumped together when they danced to
make jingling sounds.
The man told his wife about the dream and showed her the
dance steps he saw. She and other community women created
the dresses.
At the same time, the man’s daughter was very sick. She was
hardly able to move in her bed. When the women put on the
special dresses and began to dance, the girl moved and began to
watch them. By the end of the evening, the little girl was healed.