TOWER, Minn. - The dress talked as Abbi Zapata bumped her feet across the floor. It was a gentle sound, as rhythmic as ice shards moving against a thawing shoreline. It's a century-old sound that ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — At Northern Quest Casino, typical bells and whistles could be heard from wall to wall. But inside the Pend Oreille Pavilion, spectators listened to different bells as dancers from ...

Editor's note: Every winter, the Star Tribune commissions an original piece of writing from a notable local author. This year's essay is by Brenda J. Child, Northrop professor of American Studies and ...

Every artist confronts her past, and, in the case of the Indian dancer Bijayini Satpathy, that past is both a country and a colonial legacy. Satpathy performs Odissi, a dance style from the eastern ...

This video is no longer available. The crowds gathered around a space just inside the entrance to the National Museum of the American Indian. They listened as Misty Rose Nace [Solorio], a member of ...

Century-old art forms and a story of healing are at the center of Turtle Bay Exploration Park's latest exhibit, and a meaningful addition to the park's summer program highlighting Native American ...

In Ojibwe culture, music, dance and medicine are sources of healing. By Brenda J. Child Dr. Child is Northrop Professor of American Studies & American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota and ...

Recently, at the Joyce Theatre, I attended a war. The war was a dance, “Gigenis: The Generation of the Earth,” directed by the British dancer and choreographer Akram Khan, loosely inspired by the ...