Grass Dance Song

Dennis Banks, an Anishinabe Indian born in northern Minnesota, discusses the importance of the drum to Native peoples and performs a ceremonial war dance known as a “grass dance song,” so named because men would begin to dance by shuffling their feet through the grass to find any sticks or stones.

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