Stomp dance
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The stomp dance is performed by various Eastern Woodland tribes and Native American communities in the United States, including the Muscogee, Yuchi, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Delaware, Miami, Caddo, Tuscarora, Ottawa, Quapaw, Peoria, Shawnee, Seminole, Natchez, and Seneca-Cayuga tribes. Stomp dance communities are active in Georgia, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida.
Southeastern turtleshell rattles, worn on the legs while dancing, c. 1920, Oklahoma History Center
Turtleshell rattle made by Tommy Wildcat
Detail of a stomp dance skirt made by Ardina Moore (Osage-Quapaw), featuring rattlesnake-patterned ribbon work
Yuchi
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The Yuchi people, also spelled Euchee and Uchee, are a Native American tribe based in Oklahoma. Their original homeland was in the southeast of the present United States.
Yuchi Town, painting by Martin Pate (1990) of an 18th-century village, based on archaeological data. The site of Yuchi Town is within the area of present-day Fort Moore, Georgia.