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When I started dancing jingle, I was going through a tough day.

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It was a time in my life.

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These dresses healed me, and they mean everything to me.

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Hold on, let's go.

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The jingle dress comes from my people.

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It's believed to be a healing dress, a medicine dress.

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And part of that medicine comes from the sound.

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It's almost like washing away sicknesses and illnesses.

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Whatever that may be, physical, mental, emotional.

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A lot of my inspiration comes from our cultural knowledge, our cultural teachings that I've learned from our elders, a lot of my grandmothers and aunties.

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Some of my dresses are inspired by the natural world.

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I love to create dresses that are very contemporary.

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But also reflect the knowledge with respect to the medicine dress.

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I highly respect this dress and what it brings and what it means to the community.

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But I also see this dress moving forward into the future, which I'm really, really proud to be a part of.

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So I just had done doing an interview.

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In this interview, we talked about my journey of being a jingle dress dancer, a jingle dress designer.

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I've learned a lot about what it means to be a part of community and what it means to be an indigenous woman in today's society.

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When you heal yourself, you can heal your family.

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And when you heal your family, you can heal your community.

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And it is so powerful to be a jingle dress designer, but also a jingle dress dancer.

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Thank you very much.