Sun Dance

Much time and energy by the entire community is needed for the sun dance to work.

The skulls, for example, are used in a sun dance.

"Anyway, like, what about all the people who saw the sun dance in the sky and stuff?

An important Indian ceremony is the sun dance where you sacrifice your own flesh to help others.

Their sun dance was adopted while they were migrating south in what is now the state of Montana.

Many of the Ojibwe take part in sun dance ceremonies across the continent.

That spring, the Indians held a sun dance.

Other times he would sign with a glyph of a dancer in a sun dance lodge to represent himself.

He participated six times in the Sun Dance ceremony.

Those who know the Indian corn dances and sun dances might find the references they need.

The mine does stop activity for four days in June during the annual Sun Dance, he said.

In solo dances, "the king performed the sun dance.

The federal prohibition of potlatch and sun dance ceremonies ended in 1951 .

Manitoba archival photos of the sun dance clearly show that the ceremonies have stayed quite similar since at least the early 1900s.

"It reduces our sun dance and medicine dance to a toilet-paper project," she said.

In Polperro it was customary to rise at dawn to 'See the sun dance'.

In most sun dance cultures, it is forbidden to film ceremony or prayer, so few images exist of authentic ceremonies.

The Indian summer sun dances lightly off Satan's smile.

Isa-tai brought all the bands of the Comanches together for the sun dance in May 1874.

Recently, he said, some people came to the Hopi Reservation looking for a sun dance, and asked whether they could be "pierced" in the chest.

A dancer's position in the Sun Dance could only be awarded by the Little People.

Such customs as the sun dance, which Indian bureau agents deemed "savage and barbarous," were outlawed.

Two summers ago, Russell participated in the sun dance ceremony, which includes a four-day fast, while praying for his unborn child.

They had a sun dance then, till the sun dried up the niud and began to burn the hides of the people.

A permanent site for the Sun Dance has been established near Whiterocks, Utah.