Jingle Dancer
Picture Book - 2000
Jenna, a member of the Muscogee, or Creek, Nation, borrows jingles from the dresses of several friends and relatives so that she can perform the jingle dance at the powwow. Includes a note about the jingle dance tradition and its regalia.
Publisher:
New York : Morrow Junior Books, 2000.
ISBN:
9780688162412
068816241X
9780688162429
0688162428
068816241X
9780688162429
0688162428
Characteristics:
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
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Add a SummaryJenna is a member of the Muscogee Nation. In this book, she asks her grandma if she could dance in the next powwow. Her grandma said she could, the only thing holding her back is getting enough jungles to make her dress for the weekend. Jenna goes to her relatives and friends, and asks them for a row of each of their jingles to make her dress for the powwow.

Jenna, a member of the Muscogee Nation, borrows jingles from the dresses of several friends and relatives so that she can perform the jingle dance at a powwow.
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Add a CommentI recommend this book to parents to read to their children. This is an amazing book explaining the story of a young Ojibway girl, trying to get enough jingles for her powwow. The book explains in the pictures the story that is being told throughout the book. This is a great piece of literature as well. The book gives you a mini glossary in the back, so you can explain to your children what some of the words mean throughout the book. Since I am not of the same descent I was confused sometimes during the book trying to find out, for example, what a powwow was, but there the dictionary was at the end of the book to let me know what it is. If you want to expose your child or children to a culture that is not their own, this is an amazing book. Every culture has a certain dance and or time where they gather together to show their moves off to their family and friends. This is how the Ojibway descent show’s their moves.