The Shoshoni-Crow Sun Dance: Volume 170 | American Indian Culture & History Book | Perfect for Native American Studies & Anthropology Research
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About 1875 the Crows abandoned their own Sun Dance, but they continued to carry out other traditional rites despite opposition from missionaries and the federal government. In 1941, Crow Indians from Montana sought out leaders of the Sun Dance among the Wind River Shoshonis in Wyoming and under the direction of John Truhujo, made the ceremony a part of their lives. In The Shoshoni-Crow Sun Dance, Fred W. Voget draws on forty years of fieldwork to describe the people and circumstances leading to this singular event, the nature of the ceremony, the reconciliations with Christianity and peyotism, the role of the Sun Dance as a catalyst for the reassertion of Crow cultural identity, and the place the Sun Dance now holds in Crow life and culture. Voget’s description includes photographs and diagrams of the Sun Dance.
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This book seems to have been removed from a lot of public libraries and I can't see why-it really gives some good descriptions of the numerous ways the sundance was and is used. Anything from revenge, to obtaining a mate, etc. the really important things in life must be purchased with supreme suffering-all of the major religions believe this and the Sundance is one of the most painful,exhausting rituals. I wondered how old it actually is? When I see some archaeological digs and they find what they believe to be a prehistoric Native American house I now think-"I wonder if it's a Sweat Lodge or some posts from a sundance?
