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The Jingle Dress Dance is a dance for girls and women. The regalia for the Jingle Dress dance features a skirt adorned with small bells. The bells jingle loudly to the beat of the dances. This dance originated with the Ojibwe (also known as Chippewa) tribe in Canada, but, like many of the dances at a Powwow, it has been shared with other tribes. 

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