Dora Old Elk (born 1977) is an Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke)/

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artist who grew up on the

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. A dance dress made by Dora Old Elk is in the permanent collection of the National Museum of the American Indian in

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She also dances Women's Northern Traditional dance. Of her dance dresses she has said, 'I see my outfit as an individual itself. When I put it on, there's no other way to really represent myself than to be out there and dancing. It feels really, really good. It's like nothing that I've ever felt before.' She was a member of the Baptist Ladies' Sewing group as a child in the 1940s, as was her mother Evelyn Old Elk. The band Warscout recorded a

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song "Apsaalooke Double Beat" for Old Elk in 2008.

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