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A maroon long-sleeve dress with rows of jingles hanging from its surface is propped up within an exhibition case at a museum.
A jingle dress showcased in the Glenbow Museum in Canada.

Jingle Dress created by the Ojibwe community in response to the flu epidemic.

1918

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A jingle dress showcased in the Glenbow Museum in Canada.

The U.S. government still bans all Indigenous religious and cultural practices, but the Jingle Dress Dance begins to spread from Ojibwe communities to Lakota communities, and then across Turtle Island. The dresses are also known as "Prayer Dresses."