Indian Country Today reported. His father took him to a powwow where he met champion hoop dancer Derrick Davis, who made him his first set of hoops and started teaching him how to dance.Native hoop dancing involves doing intricate footwork while twirling and throwing hoops in the air and manipulating them into shapes such as wings, tails, an open alligator mouth or a sphere. “The hoop dance is a healing ceremony,” Steve LaRance said. “Just a super energy that comes out of performing gives people a whole other feeling about them, what they saw and even about themselves.”One of LaRance’s moves was to create a sphere with several hoops and toss it into the air, then step into the hoops as they came down and turn them into wings.“Nakotah was.