The Jingle Dress

Presented by Redding Rancheria, Local Indians for Education
and Shasta Union High School District Title VI Indian Education

May 1 - September 6, 2021

Explore the significance of the Jingle Dress. This modern regalia and the women’s healing dance traces back 100 years. Today, the red jingle dress and dance have been adopted by those at the forefront of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women movement 

Guest curated by April Carmelo with support from Native Roots Network and Sunset Cleaners. Jingle dress dancer illustration courtesy of Joshua Mangeshig Pawis-Steckley, Ojibwe 

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