risling-baldy: the flower dance is a women's coming-of-age ceremony. we usually celebra it when a girl starts menstruating. it's a community sort of celebration of this young woman because she is becoming a woman, she is moving through her adolescence, and it is a way to sort of help her see what that's going to be like, the decisions that she's going to have to make, the life that she's going to have to lead, but what i see through the ceremony a lot is it actually is showing her that she is able to make those decisions for herself and that there will be a community to support her along the way. woman: you kind of want to find a spot that's kind of flat with no, like, knots because the knots when you're peeling it will make it so that it has a little hole in it, right? risling-baldy: in the flower dance, the young woman actually has a bark skirt, it's like a maple bark skirt, and the maple bark skirt because they're going into the water, it absorbs the water, it takes on the water, and then the water runs down their legs, and they can still remember t