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Pow Wow Women's Jingle Dress Dance filmed at George Gordon First Nation annual pow wow. Please share and like if you enjoyed it. Story of Jingle Dress a young girl was sick and gave no signs of recovering. Her distraught father, offered his tobacco and prayed for the Creator's assistance. Assistance came by way of a dream, in which the father was shown how to create this dress and instructed about a dance that would accompany the dress. Upon waking, he set about making the dress and put it on his daughter so that she would dance as he had been instructed to show her. In spite of her illness, she was somehow able to dance and as the dance progressed, she became stronger and was relieved of her illness. A sacred obligation is carried by women who wear this dress as Jingle dress dancers are often called upon to dance for a sick or injured community member or to help families who are grieving. The metal cones that adorn the dress were originally made from snuff tin lids and create a beautiful sound when the dancer is moving. The spiritual power of the dress is said to originate as an energy which emanates from the sound of the cones that sing out to the spirits as the dancer moves in time with the drum.
