Lakota Holder Fancy Shawl Dancer
BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA Peoples Park is a park that is east of the University of California, Berkeley campus, it had its 49th anniversary yesterday (Sunday, April 26).Opening the celebration was Lakota Holder, her lineage is of the Lakota, Tlingit, and Navajo nations. Lakota Holder is a Fancy Shawl Dancer. The womens fancy shawl dance embodies the spring season with the opening of a cocoon letting the butterfly emerge and flutter away.
emerging from the cocoon
almost free
spreading wings
flying free
The All Nations Singers drummed a beat for everyone to feel, and this feeling helped them get up and move. Both the All Nations Singers and Lakota Holder will be at the Berkeley PowWow next weekend so come on over and have a great time.
All Nations Singers
Round Dance
Enjoy
Thank you Kav!! This looks like so much fun!!
Celebrating the re-birth, a new year, new life...
I"m always impressed with such optimism of life.
Thank you Kav.
Thanks K. One can truly feel the "spirit" from the pictures.
I absolutely love Butterflies. I can't wait for them to migrate up here!!
Spring has sprung, what could be better.
NOTHING!!!
Exactly Nona.
Kavika
What beautiful pictures, thanks for sharing them with us
Your welcome RIO. Spring is just wonderful, and celebrating it is a sign happiness.
That's so beautiful! Wish I could see it in person!
I feel more like a grub, coming out of my hole in the yard...
Your butterflies are as beautiful as the ones A.Mac brings us.
The beauty expressed in dance and song provides a glimpse into a culture most people don't take the time to notice. Thank you for sharing the beauty!
It sure is inspiring RW. Birth of all each spring. Both body and spirit.
Thanks Buzz, I see the dancers and the butterfly as one in the same..Gakina Awiiya, We are all related.
Lynne, there are so many beautiful dances of American Indians, it's too bad that more people don't take the time to enjoy them.