Over the past 41 years, Therese Seesequasis has trained more than 160 dancers who have never lost a competition. She even helped design their award-winning costumes. Therese Seesequasis

Dance is a powerful expression of culture and there was a time in Canada when it was illegal for Indigenous People to perform traditional dances. Article content

An 1895 amendment to the Indian Act prohibited “any Indian festival, dance or other ceremony” — a ban that wasn’t lifted until 1951. This applied to all Indigenous dances, but did not include the Métis jig, because Métis People were not recognized as Indigenous Peoples until the 1982 Constitution Act. Article content

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