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The dance was started in Oklahoma, buy the youth who wanted something different to dance. The dance became in the early 1900's, its older then mentioned by Serpin.
Two of the main people who helped it spread was Gus McDonald and Dennis RoughFace. Gus was more popular because he won the first World Fancy Dance Championchips held at Haskell indian school in Kansas. With that the Poncas were givien the rights to claim home of the World fancy dance Championchips, held in August now.
The dance spread like wildfire across the plains, and all the young ones were doing it. Then as the dance took off you begain to see people like Paul LittleVoice, Woogie Watchetaker, Bill Wahnee, and many many others. There was a book put out by C.Scott Evans and Rex Reddick that goes over the history and talks with some of the greats. Hope this helps, if what I said is wrong please correct.
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