The dancers in this dance dress in their traditional Blackfoot outfits.  The men and women wear white suits and dresses which are decorated with beads.  They also carry eagle feather fans.  The men also wear eagle feather headdresses.  The dancers are usually older people. 

Each man wears a porcupine hair roach on his head and a feather bustle.  The dancers step quickly, crouch and rise as they imitate the mating dance of the prairie chickens.

The men wear items that would have been work into battle.  The dancers dance out fighting and their victorious return to camp.

This dance is also called the Fancy Shawl dance.  It is a dance that comes from the southwestern United States.  It comes from the Navajo.  It is a dance about a young teenager growing into a woman.

This dance is about the Anishinabe.  It is a story of the Anishinabe who were sick and dying.  A young girl has a dream that she makes a special dress and helps to heal her people.  By listening to her dream, she helps her people.  The young girls wear a satin dress decorated with tin jingles.

This dance is from Oklahoma.  It is a bright and exciting dance and the men are very athletic.  They leap and twirl in this dance.  The bright feathers and tassels flash in the light.

This dance was originally from the east where the grass was tall.  Young men would trample the grass before setting up camp.  In Blackfoot territory the grass was short so they did not have to trample it before setting up the tipis.  This dance shows how the grass was to be trampled.

The children love to participate in dancing.  From a very young age they dress in costumes just like the adults and they also join in the fun!

For this dance, everyone is invited.  This includes everyone from the audience.  You don't even have to be wearing a costume.