Men's Grass Dance

Men’s Grass Dance
Listen to Knowledge Keeper Leroy Whitstone, a member of Northern Cree, and from Onion Lake Cree Nation. The Grass Dances is considered a Great Plains Dance, and Leroy tells a version from the Dakota people.

Video created by Powwow Times in collaboration with the Red Deer Museum + Art Gallery for the exhibit "Powwow! Ohcîwin The Origins" on display at the Red Deer Museum + Art Gallery from September 26, 2020 to February 27, 2021.

"Powwow! Ohcîwin The Origins features" 7 powwow dance styles, with full Regalia and craft work. Curators and creators, Patrick Mitsuing and Marrisa Mitsuing, have gathered the stories, worked with the Artisans, and carefully built the Regalia for this exhibition.

The origin stories for the video’s featured in the Powwow! Ohcwin the Origins exhibition were filmed during the 2019 and 2020 powwow season. The storytellers in the videos are Knowledge Keepers, who were approached by Patrick and Marrisa Mitsuing, of Powwow Times, to share one of the origin stories of a dance their dance specialty.

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Exhibit site: https://www.reddeermuseum.com/exhibits-and-events/powwow-ohc-win-the-origins/

Thank you to our major supporters in the development of this exhibition and its video content: Alberta Museums Association, City of Red Deer, Alberta Foundation for the Arts.

Видео Men's Grass Dance канала RedDeerMAG