Jingle dress

Jingle dress is a First Nations and Native American women's pow wow regalia and dance.

Origin of the jingle dress is attributed to three different Ojibwa communities: the Mille Lacs, Red Lake Band of Chippewa and the Whitefish Bay Ojibwe.

In both the Mille Lacs and Whitefish Bay versions, the dress and the dance appeared in a recurring vivid dream that was realized about the year 1900.

The Mille Lacs' version of the story continues that the reason for this recurring dream was because the daughter of the Midewinini was gravely ill.

In the late 1920s, the White Earth people gave the jingle dress to the Lakota and it spread westward into the Dakotas and Montana.

[citation needed] Such moves exemplify the differences between contemporary and traditional jingle dress dancing.

Jingle dresses were originally made of fabric in solid, "healthy" colors – red, green/yellow, black and blue.