JBSA - Active-duty members, veterans and civilians from Texas and members of the Traditional American Indian Society Honor Guard perform a gourd dance, a traditional American Indian ceremony in which the ground the dance is held on is blessed, Sept. 30 at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph. The event was hosted by the JBSA-Randolph Native American Heritage Committee and gets its name from the special rattles used by the dancers, which were originally made of gourd, a hard-shelled fruit found in plants.( Air Force photo by Melissa Peterson)

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