PHOENIX – Hoop dancing has rarely ever been about competition for Scott Sixkiller Sinquah. Sure, Sinquah is a world champion hoop dancer and one of the best to ever do it. But he doesn’t hoop dance to ...

ShanDien LaRance, an instructor with the Lightning Boy Foundation, performs a hoop dance May 2 on the Plaza. LaRance and students were performing to raise money for the nonprofit organization that ...

Hoop dancing has always been a way of life for Manaya Duncan. “Ever since I could walk, my parents gave me a hoop,” Duncan, now 16, said Saturday while waiting to compete in the fourth annual Youth ...

Native American hoop dancing dates back so far that even the tribes themselves are unsure of when it exactly started. What is known is it's more than a performance, it's even more than spiritual. For ...

DANCE AND ARTISTIC EXPRESSION. >> HOOP DANCING. A TRADITIONAL NATIVE AMERICAN AND NEW MEXICAN DANCE FORM. >>E W TRY HOOP DANCING THROUGH THE NATIVE AMERICAN HOOP DANCE TO CREATE AWARENESS ABOUT THE ...

FORT YATES, N.D. — Kevin Locke played an important role in keeping alive the lost art of the Native American hoop dance. He also was an accomplished flute player, storyteller and educator who was ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. A competition this weekend honored the man whose passion sparked a chain of events that has brought the ...

As a child, ShanDien Sonwai LaRance never thought her love for hoop dancing would take her around the world. But her dad knew. "Keep hoop dancing," her dad often said. "It's going to open doors for ...

LANDER — When Jasmine Pickner-Bell was five years old, her father, renowned hoop dancer Dallas Chief Eagle, gave her one hoop: a circle representing her inner self. “I remember he decided that he was ...

The 2018 Hoop Dance World Champion will be crowned on February 11, and Tony Duncan has his eye on the top prize. Duncan hopes to bring home his sixth championship win. But, winning isn’t everything ...

A North Branch, Minnesota second grader is in the national spotlight. He's preserving a rare art form and gaining accolades as he navigates loss. When Mattias Big Bear was just a toddler, his grandpa ...