found: Work cat.: Jingle dress, 2003:Show 17 from Season 11 of The sharing circle (container: Maggie White ... went on ... to dance in her jingle dress and to establish a tradition ... on the Pow Wow circuit)
found: Buffalo Spirit 2003 web page, Aug. 25, 2006:from the Aboriginal Multi-Media Society (The healing gift of the jingle dance: Even in a culture that holds Elders in great esteem, 76-year-old jingle dress dancer Evelyn Thom is outstanding ... The original jingle dress dance is said, by the Ojibwa, to have originated in Ontario. A medicine man's daughter was very sick and through prayer and meditation, he was given a powerful vision about a sacred healing dress from the Creator ... "We had a dancer that I knew, on our home reserve at Whitefish Bay, named Maggie White. She was the original girl ... and it was her father who had a dream about a dress with all these jingling cones hanging off the material. He spent days making the dress, put it on her ... and when she finally was able to dance she got better. Maggie passed away, an old women, in 1992," said Evelyn)
found: Gathering of Nation web page, Aug. 25, 2006(Learn About Powwow Dancers>Women's Jingle Dance: There are many legends surrounding the origin of the Jingle Dress Dance. In the most popular account, a spiritual person dreamed of four women wearing jingle dresses standing before him. In the dream they taught the making of the dress, the sorts of songs that were appropriate and the way the dance was performed ... The dance was a gift from the Creator to the Ojibway people for the purpose of healing. The dance was also present in the Lakota or Dakota tribes and has spread among other tribes. After nearly dying out, the dance regained popularity and is now a common category at most dance competitions)
found: Southern Native American Pow Wows, ver. 1.2 web page, Aug. 25, 2006(the Jingle Dress is the most exotic of the Southern womens dances ... The idea of the dress was first encountered in the late 1800s, and although there are many legends, one seems to stand out ... there once was an elder ... who was very ill and was thought to die soon. As he lay sick ... he received a vision. In it, a young woman came to him and showed him a dress unlike any he had ever seen. She said that it was a medicine dress that would make him whole again. With that, the girl taught him what to use and how to make the dress. Once that was done, the young woman taught the old man the songs that would make the medicine come alive in the dress. Teach this dance to your granddaughters, the girl said, and you again will be well. When the sun rose the next morning, the old man called his three young granddaughters to him and told them of the vision he had had in the night)
found: Google, Aug. 25, 2006(jingle dress dance 517 hits; jingle dance 859 hits)
found: Cdn. Encycl., c2006; (Powwow: Dancers dress in colourful outfits or "regalia" for each style of dance. Men's dance categories include Traditional, Grass, and Fancy, and women's dance categories include Traditional, Jingle Dress, and Fancy Shawl)
