Making the shakers for Indian stomp dances has changed little. OKMULGEE -- When the summer heat turns brutal, scores of stomp dancers across the region look to their local dance grounds and annual ...
Tate's two-act opera Loksi' Shaali' (Shell Shaker), depicts the Chickasaw origin story of the tribe's sacred turtle shell shakers, used in traditional stomp dancing and social songs. The first opera ...