The Shoshoni-Crow Sun Dance (Volume 170) (The Civilization Of The American Indian Series)

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 reconciliationÆs 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. VogetÆs description includes photographs and diagrams of the Sun Dance.

• | Author: Fred W. Voget
• | Publisher: University Of Oklahoma Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 02, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 372 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Social Science
• | ISBN-10: 0806130865
• | ISBN-13: 9780806130866