In a demonstration of healing, Josiah Enriquez’s moccasins etched rapid, intricate patterns in the sand as he danced at the end of a dirt road, a portable speaker offering up powwow ...

In 1991, my father and I decided to host a unique event to preserve a Native artform that began in the Southwest and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Since 1992, the World Championship Hoop Dance Competition has been held at the Heard Museum in downtown Phoenix, and 2026 will be ...

In a pastoral campground south of Lansing, many attendees at the Michigan Hoop Dance Retreat were hooping as if their hair was on fire. Then, Missy Cooke’s hair caught fire. Dancing with a torch in ...

Kevin Locke, an acclaimed Native American flute player, hoop dancer, cultural ambassador and educator, has died in South Dakota at age 68, according to his family. A member of the Standing Rock Sioux ...

Need weekend plans? Go to the Hoop Dance competition hosted by the Heard Museum. The Heard Museum will be presenting the first-ever Hoop Dance Legacy award performer Jones Benally (Diné). Benally is a ...

Hoop dancing is one of the many traditions indigenous people are still carrying on today. Originally a healing dance, the art form is now performed at powwows and other cultural events as a form of ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Hoop dancing has always been a way of life for Manaya Duncan. “Ever since I could walk, my parents gave me a ...

The lighted marquee on the theater may read "Kevin Locke." But in terms of his proud Lakota heritage, he's Tokeya Inajin. Or, translated: "The First to Arise" -- a la the ascent of the sun in the ...