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Which dance forms are especially associated with southern-style powwows?

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Native American dance Aztec round dance for Quetzalcóatl and Xolotl (a dog-headed god who is Quetzalcóatl's companion), detail from a facsimile Codex Borbonicus (folio 26), c. 1520; original in the Chamber of Deputies, Paris, France.

In the context of Native American dance, "southern-style" powwows—which originate from the cultures of the southern Plains tribes in central and western Oklahoma—are specifically associated with the following dance forms:

Men’s southern straight dance1
Women’s southern cloth dance1

While these forms are distinct to the southern style, other categories such as the women’s jingle dress dance, men’s grass dance, and both men’s and women’s fancy dances have become widely popular across the entire powwow circuit and are no longer tied to a specific geographic region.1