Jingle dresses also became a staple of Blassingame's fashion design career when she began selling them around 2012. She said her first dress sold in just 20 minutes.

Designer Nan Blassingame will be busy making ... But it wasn’t until her early twenties that she first learned how to make one of her most beloved pieces—a Native American jingle dress.

Misty Rose Nace dances the Jingle Dress dance at the National Museum of the American Indian on Nov. 24, 2023. Her sister Jennifer Night Bird Miller is dancing in the background. (WTOP/Kate Ryan) ...

A month ago, in late February 2023, Fairbanks’s mother was browsing the auction site K-Bid, looking for sewing equipment, when she saw listings titled “Vintage Native American Jingle Dress.” ...

Kaomi Lee of Twin Cities PBS met one Ojibwe artist who is helping to create authentic designs and is working with one non-native company to help reconcile past wrongs. For a transcript of this ...