The Jingle Dress
The jingle dress dance is a traditional dance of Ojibwa people that originated in Minnesota. The dresses are adorned with metal cones or jingles that are not only decorative, but jingle during the dance. One particular legend recounts how a medicine man helped his very sick daughter. One night, a spirit wearing the jingle dress appeared to him in a dream. She told him that he could cure his daughter by making one of these jingle dresses for her. When he woke up, he and his wife crafted a jingle dress according to the spirit’s instructions, and their daughter was cured.