Contemporary dance, ballet, jazz and tap classes often influence each other, while other dance forms, such as Irish jigs and Native American fancy dancing, rarely overlap – often because they are an ...

Sherenté Mishitashin Harris (Narragansett) comes from a large family of champion powwow dancers in Charlestown, Rhode Island. His grandmother was an Eastern Blanket dancer; his mother is known for the ...

The 2011 March Powwow and all the festivities therein taught me something I suspect is tremendously important. If you are wearing feathers, mirrors, bells, and dancing like you are a force of nature — ...

Stephanie Rock was just a tyke — the seventh of 13 kids — when she first learned the "fancy shawl" dance from her mother near the White Earth Reservation in Ponsford, Minn. She went on to win crowns ...

RACINE — Samantha Toman started dancing almost before she could walk. At 2 years old, and under the direction of her grandmother, Toman started fancy shawl dances at Pow-wows. Toman is a member of the ...

VERMILLION, S.D. (KELO) – November is Native American Heritage Month, but the traditions and cultures of America’s Indigenous people are honored and taught year-round in South Dakota’s nine tribes. A ...

Rachel Ellen Sage Blanford, 13, was bullied in school. Like many teens, she said the cruelty of her classmates made her feel depressed and “like it was not worth it to be alive.” Rachel, who has Creek ...

It's that time of year again when a few notable local folks put on their dancing shoes for a good cause. Dancing at the Stars returns to the downtown theater this weekend with a new crop of performers ...