Healing Dance: An Ojibwa Story

The Ojibwa (also Ojibway or Ojibwe) is the largest group of Native Americans-First Nations north of Mexico. They have a story about the origin of the Jingle Dress and its dance both appeared in a recurring vivid dream that was realized about the year 1900. The dream came to a man with an ill daughter and in the dream there were four women, each wearing a jingle dress and dancing. Each dream also gave instructions on how to make the dresses, what types of songs went with them and how the dance was to be performed. The girl was so moved by the dancers that she was following the women and dancing around.
This video is made as part of the Virtual Pow-wow project at Carleton University (http://img.csit.carleton.ca/vpow/)

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Film & Animation

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• pow-wow
• animation
• dance
• native
• jingle
• dress

[raminarya]

The story is based on Ojibwa myths and basic elements are man, daughter and women in dream. It is not intended to be a true depiction of Ojibwa life. We had to make some artistic and technical decisions and hope nobody is offended.

[mimecolors]

(this if for the up right corner were the info box is)um i am ojibwa and i know they never lived north of mexico (originaly) they lived all around were the great lakes are

[raminarya]

the info box says they are the largest group north of mexico (i.e US and Canada)

[starsurfer13]

@aishaAhmedAli correct me if im wrong. but i was told that we lived in wigwams before the 1800's. then we went to the plains for the buffalo and there we adapted tp's before the European settlers came. turtle mountain area.

[mcrod]

Strong medicine!!!

[summerease]

wonderful!

[shewahedwards]

this is so awesome, thought it was cute, could be used for teaching..wow a lot of work must of went into this! I think its the coolest! would like to see more!

[TheSynchronizedVideo]

WHAT IS THE SONG NAME?!?!

[aishaAhmedAli]

iam ojibwa -- and ojibwa never lived in tee-pee's

we lived in long houses .

[pebblz021]

The songs and animations are great, but maybe be too pokahontas like. For healing where is the rest of the family ?? Takes awhole family to heal. seems too romanticised. If it is your personal story to healing, that is great, but only temporary. Healing comes inside, usually not from someone else. The dance here is contemporary and not enough bells. Perhaps seek an elder for better understanding of the dress.

[KonaStinkyRid3R]

yeh boys. this is our rugby song. It scares other teams.lol