Anishinaabe Jingle Dress Dance is a century-old indigenous ceremony and living culture representation. The Jingle Dress Dance is sacred and respected among Great Lakes indigenous people. Its present-day practice is evidence of the power and resiliency of indigenous knowledge and traditional healing methods. Starla Thompson will discuss the origin story of the dress and dance, its historical relevance, rites of passage, and her connection and experience with the ceremony, culminating in a demonstration of the Dance.

Starla Thompson (Potawatomi) is an Indigenous educator, scholar, curator, jingle dress dancer, and advocate. Her work is directly impacted by the long line of matriarch relatives who survived removal, assimilation, and relocation. They power her passion for truth and inspire her commitment to healing in our communities. She seeks to develop transformative relationships within businesses, governments, and the broad community to support and advance tribal sovereignty and self-determination.

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