Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. POJOAQUE PUEBLO — In a demonstration of healing, Josiah Enriquez’s moccasins etched rapid, intricate patterns in the sand as he ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A hoop dancer performs at the Nakotah LaRance Hoop Dance Championship. (Photo/Facebook/Lightning Boy Foundation). As Native youth ...

In the Fall of 2010, I attended college outside my comfortable Navajo Nation bubble, leaving behind the only life I knew: the Rez life. Feeling homesick, I found refuge in a new friendship with ...

Native American hoop dancing dates back so far that even the tribes themselves are unsure of when it exactly started. What is known is it's more than a performance, it's even more than spiritual. For ...

FORT YATES, N.D. — Kevin Locke played an important role in keeping alive the lost art of the Native American hoop dance. He also was an accomplished flute player, storyteller and educator who was ...

LANDER — When Jasmine Pickner-Bell was 5 years old, her father, renowned hoop dancer Dallas Chief Eagle, gave her one hoop: a circle representing her inner self. “I remember he decided that he was ...

The hoop dance, is believed to have started as a healing ceremony among Taos Pueblo medicine men, is now a vibrant expression of artistry and athleticism On the weekend of Saturday, Aug. 2, and Sunday ...

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 ...

Before spring break, students at Heights Middle School participated in a Hoop Dance workshop, taught by Diné-Hopi dance instructor Talavi Cook. Farmington Municipal Schools Public Information Officer ...

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 ...