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Acosia Red Elk
Acting
08 Jul 1980 (45 years)
Pendleton, Oregon, USA
Biography
Acosia Red Elk (born 1980) is a jingle dress dancer from the Umatilla people of Oregon. A descendant of Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt, she did not become interested in dancing until she was 16, when she taught herself to dance from videos of other jingle dancers. Red Elk began dancing professionally in 1998 with her then-husband, Paris Leighton, visiting up to 50 pow wows a year for ten years Acosia Red Elk's parents owned an auto body business. When she was six years old, she caught on fire and bur...
Also Known As
Young Swan Rising from the Water
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