Navajo Shaker Dance | Native American Culture

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KET Kentucky KY Kentucky Department of Education Kentucky educational television KET Arts toolkit arts arts toolkit toolkit dancers shaker buffalo Native American American Indian Navajo culture Arizona Pollen Trail Dancers tradition Ayani bee azheesh balance healing Fire Dance Ceremony Buffalo Dance Indigenous Peoples First Nations
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Health Studies Dance The Arts
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Navajo Shaker Dance | Native American Culture

In this video The Pollen Trail Dancers perform the Navajo Shaker Dance, also called the Buffalo Dance. Artistic director Albert Brent Chase explains that the Shaker or Buffalo Dance is a healing dance that is part of the Fire Dance Ceremony, which lasts nine nights.
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