Old footage of Native American Indian fancy shawl women dancing. Native American Indian dancers doing two fancy shawl dances. Pow wow dancing. The story of the Fancy Shawl as was told to me, was that a Native woman lost her warrior husband and she went into a shell, like a cocoon, and she realized that she must go on, and like a butterfly, emerged from her cocoon, in full flight to face the world. There are other stories and if you have one, you can share it.