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Jill, your question is good and deserves an answer! Well, I guess a lot of answers from different people.
I tend to think really traditionally, that you dance and dress your own tribe or that of your husband or your adopted family, or at the very least to get permission to dance someone else's tribe by an elder or by a group of people who have agreed that you will represent them with pride and honor and that you know the right way to do it. They may even make you a dress, so that they know will dress correctly, and honor them and not bring any shame to them.
Even people of mixed blood will have two (or more) separate outfits...each traditional for the tribes they are descended from.
I know people of different tribes are making (or having made) Kiowa buckskins with their own beadwork and decorations on it and a lot of elders are not happy about that at all. They feel that something is being stolen from them. But times are changing and although the right way is to ask the person if they have permission to wear one....I don't, but I kind of feel them out to see if they are going to so something off the wall with it.
I went against my instinct one time, and I was sorry.
But the dress wound upo in a pawn shop anyway, so the person was not really supposed to have it.
Anyway...that's my opinion:Chatter
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