Grass dance exhibition 2024 in a jail yard ❤️‍🔥

I was asked to dance at Toronto East Detention Centre. It was their first powwow and an honour to be there. I shared the grass dance teaching and then did an exhibition. It was received with lots of cheers and love and support. I felt it was good medicine for those inmates. Thank you to Little Creek Singers for the jammer. I had a great time. I look forward to doing it again.
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[@firewarrior9999]

Grass dances are truly hypnotic to watch.

[@chrismejaki]

Miigwech / Thank you ✨💖✨

[@kevinkrochak2546]

That is great! Thank you, Chris!

[@chrismejaki]

Thank you, Kevin! 🥰🥰🥰

[@evangelcassidy3988]

Thank you to dance the earth heart beats!! Blessings in all your feathers! ❤

[@chrismejaki]

Thank you / Miigwech! 🙏❤️

[@user-ci7nv7rn5l]

Grass Dance is a dance of rebellion.

[@chrismejaki]

You really think so? I’d love to hear more, if you’d like? Thanks for sharing. 🙏❤️

[@MonicaMejaki]

Beautiful and powerful ❤

[@chrismejaki]

Thank you, ma! 🥰🥰🥰

[@elizabethparker1441]

Is the grass dance from the Navajo?

[@chrismejaki]

It could be? I always that it originated out west? Alberta area? We’d stomp the tall grass down to borrow the space. I think of the plains territory for the tall grass. Mid west. Canada. Alberta. But that’s only my understanding! You could be totally right! 🙏

[@coachj5995]

No, the grass dance is not a traditional Navajo dance, However, many Navajo that participate in pow wows as well as other tribes across the US and Canada practice the dance. The grass dance or "Omaha dance" as it is referred to by some tribes is a style of modern Native American men's pow wow dancing originating in the warrior societies on the Northern Great Plains. The original creators of the grass dance and the purpose of the dance are widely debated amongst tribes. Different tribes attribute possible origins to the Omaha, Pawnee, Anishinaabe People, Ponca, Dakota, or Winnebago tribes. While the specific tribe of origin is unknown/debatable, it is generally accepted as a Northern Plains dance that was used by warrior societies and is always the first dance during pow wows, because grass dancers were to prepare and/or bless the ceremonial site by flattening the grass in circular motions and steps. I am Navajo, BTW,