Dancing on stage to the Red River Jig has been a welcomed return to normal life for Dauphin’s D-Town Steppers. Coaches Kristy Chartrand and Amanda Chartrand co-founded the Métis dance crew with ...

Arnold Asham, president of the Asham Stompers, didn't really learn the Red River Jig until he was 50. Now 68, he says the joy of the dance, paired with an urge to pass down the Métis tradition ...

The Red River Jig is both the most popular of Métis dances and also the group's national dance. Riel was 41 when he was hanged in Regina in 1885 for high treason. (National Archives of Canada ...

The Asham Stompers are stomping their way to Vancouver. The Métis dance troupe has won an audition to perform at this year’s Olympic Games. They’ll dance the famous Red River Jig and other ...

The joy of jigging "The way to drive a Métis crazy is to nail his moccasins to the floor and play the Red River Jig," is a folk saying recorded by musicologist Lynn Whidden. This saying might be true ...

Many commenters said Adelyn was performing an Irish "River Dance," one ... Red River Region, with Audette's first video playing with his daughter showing them performing the Red River Jig, ...

Heather Foulds, an Assistant Professor as the University of Saskatchewan's College of Kinesiology, is conducting a fitness assessment of the Red River Jig, a fast-stepping traditional dance. Fould ...

The flashy Western-inspired outfits can be spotted from a mile away, but what really reels you in is the thunderous — and synchronized — clacking coming from the fancy footwork of the Asham Stompers. ...