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As Native youth performed traditional hoop dance in a competition in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the movement of the hoops created meaningful designs born of nature. Hoop dancers weave their hoops into many ...

Nov. 18—A father-daughter pair from New Mexico's Lightning Boy Foundation performed a hoop dance and drum song this week for first lady Jill Biden and about 400 Native people from all over the country ...

In 1991, my father and I decided to host a unique event to preserve a Native artform that began in the Southwest and ...

The hoop dance, is believed to have started as a healing ceremony among Taos Pueblo medicine men, is now a vibrant expression of artistry and athleticism On the weekend of Saturday, Aug. 2, and Sunday ...

A circle, or hoop, has infinite sides and infinite angles. "Google it," Lumhe Sampson encouraged the crowd at a music festival in St. Paul's Mears Park. From the stage, Sampson held up a white plastic ...