The last Quail Dance of the 2025 season at Oconaluftee Indian Village in early November The Quail Dance is always a crowd favorite. In the dance, the men try to impress the ladies with their antics, similarly to how male birds try to impress female birds. Watch as the men get more and more creative throughout the dance The Quail Dance is a Cherokee social dance. Traditionally, social dances were done to socialize. These dances are easy enough so that anyone can participate, and are meant to be f

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Did you know that the Cherokee didn’t have a “rain dance” to ask for rain? Our homelands, The Great Smoky Mountains, are a temperate rainforest. It rains all the time! So we don’t need to ask for rain, but we do give thanks for rain with the Bullfrog Dance The Bullfrog Dance is a social dance that would be done after a rain, since that’s when the bullfrogs come out. You’ll see that the dance is kind of like a game of Simon Says with the singer telling the dancers whah to do as the imitate the bu

The Bison Dance demonstrated at Oconaluftee Indian Village in Cherokee, NC Most of the dancers you see here are current participants or graduates of our mentorship program. The mentorship program is open to Cherokee youth ages 14 to 17. The mentees work closely with their mentors to learn traditional crafts, Cherokee history, and more. This program is important for keeping Cherokee culture alive through the generations #OconalufteeIndianVillage #LivingHistory #Museum #Bison #NativeAmerican #Indi