The Sun Dance and The Sunrise Dance

Sundance is usually done at times when individuals and tribes are in great danger. This includes numerous items and material material sacrifices. In large ceremonial novels, dancers will attract the Almighty through dance and sacrifice. There are many reasons to carry out these dances, but one of the crisis may be illness of the family. In that case the dancer will seek assistance from Almighty Voice Thunder. Another dance is sunrise dance, and it is both medical and celebratory dance.

In the 1890s, Sundance was reinterpreted and began to move north. "After the reorganization law of India (1934), the celebration of Sundance was resumed ... More people participated in Sundance" (Vecsey 243). In recent years there was a big controversy about the commercialization of Sundance. In his book "Faith and Worship of Aboriginal People," Wedge noted that if people lose confidence in another revival movement, ghost dance movement, Sundance reorganization will take place. Naturally, ghost dance is not just dance, it is religion.

Following the ban on Sundance, Lakota adopted ghost dance. Ghost dance was completed as a substitute for ban, not as a substitute for sundance. The focus of ghost dance is to gain a vision of a dead relationship through bondage. This is a resurrection dance, not self - sacrifice. Even when ghost dancing, Sundance is still a secret. The Indian who contributed most to the resurgence of Sundance was black moose. Black elk became the leader of ghost dance for the first time in 1890. In 1904, black elk had accepted the Catholic Church and became a symbol of missionaries and Catholic churches. # Black Elk 's way of thinking about the sun' s dance, it is a secret, but it has not ended yet, it does not have to resurrect. From the eyes of black moose, what needs to be revived is its influence and the central position of religion of his people.

The main reason for the religious life of traditional black feet is the public dance dance held in the middle of the summer. Sundance is a sacred sun celebration that was initiated by a "good" woman in a black foot band. A woman who promises or "swears" to take responsibility for sponsoring Sundance is called "swearing a woman". In many cases, women are sworn to hold a position to express appreciation to the sun to express a pledge to the survival of someone in a woman's family. For example, if brothers and sisters somehow escape from death, a woman from that family's family will try to become a sworn woman. I swear that women must fast before Sundance, prepare food for Sundance, buy sacred headdresses, and learn complicated prayers.