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 reconciliation’s 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.
#3787332 in Books University of Oklahoma Press 1980-03-15Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 8.50 x .26 x 5.50l; .30 #File Name: 0806116307102 pages
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