My name is Aerius Benton-Banai.
And I come to you from the Lac Courte
Oreilles Ojibwe tribe.
When I started dancing jingle,
I was going through
a tough time in my life and
I didn't know it at the time, but
these dresses healed me.
And they mean everything to me.
I respect this dress
so much, and it is so powerful to be
a jingle dress designer, but also a jingle dress dancer.