From IndianCountryTodayMedia.com:
Age is only a concept to Dine hoop dancer Jones Benally, born in an octagonal home on the Navajo reservation in the dirt floor/no water/no electricity days before birth certificates, and still going strong today.
Two years ago, when he became the recipient of the first-ever “Hoop Dance Legacy Award” from Heard Museum, the press release noted that Benally was in his 90s and had been a hoop dancer for more than 75 years, “traveling the world as a cultural ambassador sharing culture and song.” Not much has changed.
Read more here and see some beautiful photos. Watch a video in which he is singing and performing with family members as part of the group Sihasin or “Hope,” in the Navajo language.