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Championship hoop dance growing in native community

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By Emily Johnson

Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012
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The 22nd Annual Hoop Dance Contest at the Heard Museum brought together dancers from across the nation to compete. This Native American tradition tells the story of the circle of life and continues the cycle of opposites such as winter and summer or night and day. Cronkite News reporter Emily Johnson went there to capture the experience.

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