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Why We Dance

Why We Dance

Published: 14 Mar 2024

Hardback, 40 pages

Recommended for age 5+

By Deidre Havrelock

Illustrated by Aly McKnight

Published by Abrams

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t’s a special day―the day of the Jingle Dress Dance! Before the big powwow, there’s a lot to do: getting dressed, braiding hair, packing lunches, and practicing bounce-steps. But one young girl gets butterflies in her stomach thinking about performing in front of her whole community. When the drumbeats begin, though, her family soothes her nerves and reminds her why she dances.
 
Emerging historically in response to the global influenza pandemic of 1918–19, the Jingle Dress Dance is a ceremonial dance of healing and prayer that still thrives today in many Indigenous and First Nations communities across North America.  Dance

Tagged Indigenous Peoples and USA