WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.170 align:middle line:90% 00:00:01.170 --> 00:00:03.980 align:middle line:84% I have a couple more on here and then I'm going to close with-- 00:00:03.980 --> 00:00:05.370 align:middle line:90% am I doing OK on time? 00:00:05.370 --> 00:00:06.405 align:middle line:90% Perfect, good. 00:00:06.405 --> 00:00:09.140 align:middle line:90% 00:00:09.140 --> 00:00:13.910 align:middle line:84% It's hard to select, but I think that you 00:00:13.910 --> 00:00:15.590 align:middle line:84% might like to hear this poem, which 00:00:15.590 --> 00:00:18.530 align:middle line:84% is about the jingle dress and the tradition 00:00:18.530 --> 00:00:19.830 align:middle line:90% of the jingle dress. 00:00:19.830 --> 00:00:21.900 align:middle line:90% And again, stories. 00:00:21.900 --> 00:00:24.050 align:middle line:84% I could tell you stories and I could teach you 00:00:24.050 --> 00:00:25.230 align:middle line:90% the origin of this. 00:00:25.230 --> 00:00:28.070 align:middle line:84% And I could tell you how we used it during the pandemic 00:00:28.070 --> 00:00:32.310 align:middle line:84% to dance for both physical healing, 00:00:32.310 --> 00:00:35.340 align:middle line:84% but also when George Floyd was killed, 00:00:35.340 --> 00:00:38.060 align:middle line:84% we went out and danced at the George Floyd 00:00:38.060 --> 00:00:45.210 align:middle line:84% Memorial for spiritual healing because racism is an illness. 00:00:45.210 --> 00:00:49.920 align:middle line:84% So this is a medicine dress and it's a medicine dance. 00:00:49.920 --> 00:00:54.450 align:middle line:84% And Ikwe-niimi really just means the woman's dance. 00:00:54.450 --> 00:00:57.410 align:middle line:84% And there's a long story how it came to be. 00:00:57.410 --> 00:01:03.140 align:middle line:84% But let me just do this poem for you. 00:01:03.140 --> 00:01:07.430 align:middle line:90% Ikwe-niimi: Dancing Resistance. 00:01:07.430 --> 00:01:13.830 align:middle line:84% 365 jingles in rows upon my dress. 00:01:13.830 --> 00:01:18.560 align:middle line:84% Turned by the hands of one who deserted. 00:01:18.560 --> 00:01:23.150 align:middle line:84% Escaped a mandated Pipestone education. 00:01:23.150 --> 00:01:29.160 align:middle line:84% 266 miles, looking backwards for pursuit. 00:01:29.160 --> 00:01:33.790 align:middle line:84% Hiding from promised punishments by day, 00:01:33.790 --> 00:01:38.940 align:middle line:84% migrating like Hmong relatives by moonlight. 00:01:38.940 --> 00:01:45.910 align:middle line:84% 365 ribbons hold the jingles to my dress. 00:01:45.910 --> 00:01:50.920 align:middle line:84% Colorful strips cut, tied, and threaded. 00:01:50.920 --> 00:01:55.810 align:middle line:84% Stitched by the laughing women of my childhood. 00:01:55.810 --> 00:02:03.430 align:middle line:84% Women who earned $2.25 for piece stitching, geese aprons, 00:02:03.430 --> 00:02:09.900 align:middle line:84% potholders whose stiff fingers tapped drumbeats to sew by. 00:02:09.900 --> 00:02:13.690 align:middle line:90% 365 prayers. 00:02:13.690 --> 00:02:18.790 align:middle line:84% Swing and tap one against another. 00:02:18.790 --> 00:02:24.370 align:middle line:84% Zaangwewe-magooday, ancient medicine dress. 00:02:24.370 --> 00:02:30.930 align:middle line:84% Silver coned legacy sounding the cleansing voice of rain. 00:02:30.930 --> 00:02:36.370 align:middle line:84% 145th White Earth Nation celebration powwow. 00:02:36.370 --> 00:02:40.660 align:middle line:84% The weight of Anishinaabeg history on my back. 00:02:40.660 --> 00:02:44.710 align:middle line:84% A dress made light by resistance-- 00:02:44.710 --> 00:02:47.100 align:middle line:90% this healing an art. 00:02:47.100 --> 00:02:50.450 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:02:50.450 --> 00:02:53.000 align:middle line:90%