Standing Rock Member Vies For Miss Indian World Title

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe is competing for the Miss Indian World title.

The Bismarck Tribune reports Danielle Ta'Sheena Finn will compete next week at the Gathering of Nations Powwow in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Finn grew up in Bismarck and the Porcupine district on Standing Rock. She is a law student at Arizona State University.

Finn competed for the Miss Indian World Title in 2014 and came in as second runner-up.

This year, she will share the story and song of the penny dress. Lakota women in the early 1900s used to wear such a dress to symbolize two worlds: Native and non-Native.

She's making her own dress adorned with 500 pennies. She says it's "quite heavy."

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