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The men’s fancy dance is one of the most exuberant and wildly original powwow styles. Dancers, who are clad in flashy regalia, often in shades of bright neon and embroidered with elaborate applique patterns, dance fast, displaying an aerobic set of often choreographed moves. This dance is difficult to describe.…

A dancer, clad in bright colors, sways and moves as a strand of grass in the wind. That same dancer, wearing long ribbons and fringes, flattens the grass as a young warrior preparing the ground for a ceremony. The dancer, an air of dignity in his whirling, patterned steps, celebrates…

Geronimo, Crazy Horse, Chief Joseph Jesus, I wanna be the poet who writes about the powwowsthe first one to describe how the smell of sweetgrasstrails behind the Indian dancer with his long dark hair,eagle feathers swirling in soft curls on his bustle,and how the jingles on his feetlaced tightly to…