Traditional Dance Offers Hope to Indigenous Communities

Women use cultural traditions to combat the Coronavirus

Cecilia Nowell
ZORA
Published in
4 min readApr 10, 2020

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A photo of an elderly Ojibwe showing an embroidery to a young child.
Photo: Peter Garrard Beck/Getty Images

OnOn March 25, Nicole Sch stepped out into the cool forest air of Anahim Lake, a predominantly Ulkatcho First Nation community in British Columbia, and began to dance. As she zigzagged across a meadow near her home, small “jingles” on her handmade brown and gold dress rustled in…

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Cecilia Nowell
ZORA
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reporting on gender, latin america & the southwest | she/her | words at Al Jazeera English, PRI’s The World, NPR’s LatinoUSA | cecilianowell.com