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Yeibichai
Navajo dance
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American Indian dance styles
- In Native American dance: The Southwest
…dances such as the curative yeibichai of the Navajo. Curative ceremonies, with long song cycles, are emphasized by the Navajo, along with circular social dances, recalling those of the Great Plains tribes. The Apache have developed a spectacular masked dance, called the gahan, to obtain cures but chiefly to celebrate…
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