Celebrating South Dakota History with Native American Hoop Dancing [Video]

RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) – Native American history is the backbone of South Dakota, as April 26 is National South Dakota Day, Native American Hoop Dancing brings culture and history together.

Native American Hoop Dancing is a dance style, and dancer Delacina Chief Eagle tells us how important it is to Native American History. Through the dance, you can tell a life story, the first hoop representing the beginning of life, and as the dance goes on, performers collect more hoops- symbolizing oneself getting older and wiser, as well as respecting those who came before them.

Native American Hoop Dance is an individual dance, and it is performed as a show dance in many Native American tribes. It features a solo dancer dancing with a dozen or more hoops and using them to form a variety of static and dynamic shapes, poses, and moves. Most of the hoop dances in …