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The Grass Dance is a competitive dance for men. It may have originated with the dance from the Pawnees known as the iruska, which means “the fire inside of all things.” The Pawnee man Crow Feather was given this ceremony of fire-handling and dancing, which confers on participants the power to heal burns. In the twenty-first century, the Grass Dance remained part of the dance competition at pow-wows along the summer circuit in the United States. Grass dancers wore grass tied to their costumes. During this Indigenous American dance, there was considerable athletic jumping, bending, and stomping. Dancers performed either individually or in pairs.