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Originally Posted by Swampfox
Have you asked any of the Elders about the Old History of the Grass Dance? I am wondering if, when a tribe moved with the hunting, if the females participated in stomping down the grass. Is the modern grass dance a men's only dance or are there female traditional dancers? (i.e. is it allowed?)
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Ohhhhh yes!
I already have some great interviews and plan on videoing a good one in February.
I have the story from the Umon'hon' (Omaha), how it was transferred to the Santee Dakota, then to the Hidatsa.
If I don't video this information ... I don't know who else will?
So far, I have not heard that women were a part of the grass dance ceremony or "that anybody actually stomped (laid) down the grass" as told in powwows.