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	Sun Dance
		The Sun Dance was the most spectacular and important religious ceremony of the Plains Indians of 19th-century North America, ordinarily held by each tribe once a year usually at the time of the Summer Solstice.
		During the Sun Dance the eagle is the facilitator of communication between man and spirit.
		During the Sun Dance a medicine man may use his eagle feather for healing, first touching the feather to the sun-pole then to the patient, transferring the energy from the pole to the ill people.
	www.crystalinks.com /sundance.html (1466 words)

	Society&Animal Forum - Society & Animals Journal
		The sun dance reflects relationships with nature that are characteristic of the Plains ethos, and includes symbolic representations of various animal species, particularly the eagle and the buffalo, that once played vital roles in the lives of the people and are still endowed with sacredness and special powers.
		In some tribal sun dances, a pair of rawhide effigies, one in the shape of a buffalo and one in the shape of a man, were suspended from the center pole under its fork.
		Thus the theme of rebirth is expressed through the role of the buffalo skull in the sun dance and this concept of universal regeneration infuses with transcendent meaning the participants' suffering of ritual pain in association with the skull of the sacred animal.
	www.psyeta.org /sa/sa1.1/lawrence.html (7814 words)

	Sun Dance
		The Sun Dance ground is a huge circle formed by twenty eight poles with a "shade" formed of pine boughs along the sides.
		There is a special Sun Dance tipi where the leaders and elders counsel before and after the dance, and there are as many as twelve large Sweat lodges for the dancers with a couple of special Initis (sweat lodges) for the women as well.
		To begin the dance, the intercessor, a wichasa wakan, leads the dancers into the circle and to the west cardinal point which is marked with two fl flags.
	members.tripod.com /Keefer269/SunDance.htm (2494 words)

	Natives American Nations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Sun Dance was the most spectacular and important religious ceremony of the Plains Indians of 19th-century North America.
		During the Sun Dance a medicine man may use his eagle feather for healing, first touching the feather to the sun-pole then to the patient, transferring the energy from the pole to the ill.
		The sun dancer is reborn, mentally and spiritually as well as physically, along with the renewal of the buffalo and the entire universe.
	groups.msn.com /NativesAmericanNations/sundance.msnw (1789 words)

	Sun Dance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		As Sun Dance is a social function, gathering tribes together, it is an ideal opportunity for the giving of gifts; as there are many trees needed for the construction of the lodge, the dedication for the One is shown by the gathering by the people of suitable cottonwood and cherry trees.
		The sun itself is progressively felt by those who have not had anything to drink since the beginning of the dance; the dancers may stare into its light as they keep their gaze high in the Tree.
		Since Lakota Sun Dance remains the best documented, both historically and contemporaneously, and may very well be the original ceremony, it is essential to launch a more detailed investigation of the motif of the Sacred Tree in their particular tradition and modern practise.
	members.fortunecity.com /gwolf2/sundance.html (2439 words)

	Sun Dance - Sonnentanz
		The Sun Dance was not a ceremony worshiping the sun, but rather it derived its name from the participants practice of staring upward or gazing into the sun.
		The Sun Dance was usually held once a year during the summer, and provided a time not only for ceremonial and religious celebration, but a time of re-union, sharing of news, healing, and self-renewal.
		Unlike Sun Dances of other tribes, the Kiowa never pierced their skin or shed blood in anyway during the ceremony as this was considered taboo and would bring misfortune upon the Kiowa People.
	www.sterneck.net /cybertribe/ritual/sun-dance/index.php (4083 words)

	Sun City Center Community Association (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Dancing opportunities are available through several clubs that focus on different forms of dancing, including swim dancing.
		Dances: Under the auspices of the Big Band Club, dancing to the music of the 20-piece Sun City Center Swing Band is scheduled once a month during the fall and winter season.
		Dancing to country music is a fun way to meet people, to enjoy an afternoon with people who have similar interests, and get good exercise.
	www.suncitycenter.org /dance.htm (1402 words)

	Sun Dance - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Sun Dance, religious ceremony performed by the Plains peoples of North America in veneration of the sun, which reached its peak of popularity during...
		The best-known ritual associated with Plains culture is the spectacular Sun Dance.
		Group folk dances vary in their spatial formations and spatial progressions.
	au.encarta.msn.com /Sun_Dance.html (137 words)

	Sun Dance History & Cartoon Fun by Brownielocks.
		This dance is observed in late June or early July, wherever the first full moon closest to the summer solstice lands.
		The Sun Pole was usually made of cottonwood, very tall and was in the center of the circular enclosed dance area.
		The Sun Dance is set up in a circular structure with shade for the people that support the Sun Dancers.
	www.brownielocks.com /sundance.html (1664 words)

	Sun Dance: A sacred native american ritual.
		The Sun Dance is a sacred ritual first practiced by the Plains Indians of North America.
		Different tribes employ diverse traditions surrounding the sun dance and how it is practiced, but the ceremony did foster unity among different tribes for the sake of a higher veneration.
		The sun is also a symbol of continuity, rising and setting in a constant pattern, which parallels some Native American tribe's beliefs about the constant renewal of life.
	www.wind-chimes.ws /info/sun-dance.php (303 words)

	Sun Dance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Sun Dance is tits differently by different First Nations, but many of the ceremonies have features in common, including dancing, singing and drumming, the experience of visions, fasting, and, in some, piercings, or tits and genitals.
		Women are now allowed to dance but are not required to pierce their skin as the men are, in the dances where they pierce (some do not do it at all, such as the Shoshoni in Wyoming).
		In Canada, the Sun Dance is known by the Plains Cree as the Thirst Dance, the Saulteaux, as the Rain Dance and the Blackfoot (Siksika, Kainai,and Piikani) as the Medicine Dance.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sun_Dance (810 words)

	Nunney Sun Dance
		There was an audience of nearly 200 people for the Nunney Sun Dance, which we were very pleased with, especially as there were so many other events going on at the same time for BBC Music Live.
		Ann is writing rap-style poetry for use in a set of 3 pieces based on the native american Sun Dance, a ritual of purification and spiritual renewal.
		For the Sun Dance Ann has written 3 new pieces, which we are using as the basis for each section of the music.
	www.nunneyjazzcafe.org /Future_Events/Nunney_Sun_Dance/nunney_sun_dance.html (935 words)

	The Sun News Online \| Arts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It is another wedlock of cultures, as the sixth edition of Dance meets Danse festival, now slated to hold between March 18 and April 1, at the French Cultural Centre, Lagos.
		Apart from showcasing the dance art, the organisers noted that the fiesta will also feature workshops, seminars, discussions, film shows and outdoor events in order to develop the practice and knowledge of dance.
		The seven foreign dance companies were drawn from four continents of the 0while the fifteen Nigerian companies were chosen out of the thirty four that applied for participation.
	www.sunnewsonline.com /webpages/features/arts/2006/mar/15/arts-15-03-2006-003.htm (453 words)

	The Sun Dance Ritual
		Their bodies and spirits would be purified before the dance and they would each have a mentor to help them through the ordeal.
		The whole idea of the dance was to remove the bone pieces from your body.
		Those with skulls attached to their backs would dance over rocks and through bushes hoping to catch the skulls on something and having them ripped from their bodies.
	www.lakotawritings.com /The_Sun_Dance_Ritual.htm (911 words)

	The Sun Dance
		I shall dance for you to be worthy of my beloved that I may have her for my wife.
		When the public announcement was made that the Sun Dance was to be given, the clansmen of the Dancer's Father asked for a scalp and left hand taken from an enemy.
		The Dancer danced back and forth continuously toward the sun-pole in the circle as long as a Faster was attached to the sun-pole.
	www.indigenouspeople.net /sundance.htm (1557 words)

	Sun Dance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The buffalo is silent during Sun Dance, but may move about on the Tree in the sight of the dancers, even hurling the dancer to the Earth for a vision.
		The arms of the dancers are similarly extended to the Tree as much as to the sun for they both serve as power sources during Sun Dance; the difference with the Tree is that as present in the Mystery Circle, it may be physically touched.
		On the subject of Sun Dance influence that different tribes must have had on their neighbors, with inter-marriage, visitors, and even outright robbery, it might be useful to look at another ceremony that might have influenced the Lakota, but did not.
	members.fortunecity.com /gwolf2/sundance2.html (3338 words)

	Choctaw Sun Dance: Spanish Colonial Medicine Hat Appaloosa Stallion
		By the time Dance grew to be a mature horse, his trick repertoire included kneeling, counting, rescuing Vik when she had "fallen", saying both "yes" and "no", rearing on command and liberty jumps.
		Dance won in several areas including open and Indian Horse shows, gymkana-type games--including the challenging American Indian Horse speed events which are patterned after Plains Indian and frontier period pastimes--and in competitve trail riding.
		Once Vik and Dance performed at a Native American Powwow, and Dance had the privilege of re-introducing the Indian Horse to the descendants of those who had ridden his ancestors.
	www.karmafarms.com /dance.html (1066 words)

	Darlene Jackson's SUN DANCE page
		Special songs were sung as the tree was carried to the center of the sun dance ring.
		As they danced they would periodically stop, turn toward the tree (where the prayer flags were tied to the two top forks) and stare at the top of the tree.
		Before the sun dance started I was introduced to Elmer but we had time to speak just a few words to each other.
	www.bright.net /~gshaffer/SUNDANCE.htm (2416 words)

	Sun Dance Golf Course
		Sun Dance Golf Course is located about 15 minutes northwest of downtown Spokane.
		Sun Dance is an 18-hole, par 70 course with full practice facilities.
		The Sun Dance Junior Golf Program offers lessons and fun for the beginner or intermediate golfer between the ages of 8 and 18.
	www.sundancegc.com (272 words)

	Sun Dance
		The first non-Indian accounts of the Plains Indian Sun Dance ceremonies described them using words like "torture," "horrible," "cruel spectacle." The writers were wrong, but it is easy to see why they thought that.
		Sun dance pledgers pierce their bodies, stare into the sun, and endure the ceremony until they slump from exhaustion.
		The real meaning behind the Sun Dance ritual has to do with personal sacrifice for the nation.
	www.meredith.edu /nativeam/susdance.htm (151 words)

	sun dance - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Sun Dance, religious ceremony performed by Native Americans of the Plains tribes of North America in veneration of the sun.
		The quest for visions played a part in a renewal ceremony common to many Great Plains tribes.
		This ceremony was called the Sun Dance by the Sioux,...
	ca.encarta.msn.com /sun+dance.html (129 words)

	Microsoft and Sun's difficult dance \| CNET News.com
		With payments of $1.95 billion to Sun and the onstage reconciliation between Sun CEO Scott McNealy and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer--bitter rivals for many years--expectations for the landmark, 10-year agreement are high.
		Microsoft and Sun's much anticipated progress report on collaboration under their landmark pact revealed few surprises but highlighted the difficulty of bringing the two formerly bitter rivals together.
		Sun and Microsoft will still compete in key areas, such as server software and development tools.
	news.com.com /Microsoft+...+difficult+dance/2100-1012_3-5474967.html (775 words)

	Oglala Sun Dance: The Sun Dance: The Sun Dance
		A dance thus performed is the Sun Dance in its fullest form which includes most of the: Mythology and much of the customs of the Oglala.
		One who contemplates dancing the Sun Dance should know these things: and carefully consider the compliance with the essentials for the performance of the ceremony, for it is done for the benefit of both the dancer and the people.
		The Sun Dance is a feastal ceremony and provision must The made for feasts that are rites and are to be given by the Candidate, his kindred, and his band, for all these are honored by the performance of the ceremony.
	www.sacred-texts.com /nam/pla/sdo/sdo03.htm (938 words)

	Kiowa Sun Dance
		The Sun Dance ceremony provided the reference point for the summer on the calenders as indicated on by the Sun Dance Lodge on the Da-ha-san or Set-tan calender, or the Y- forked tree which was a part of the Sun Dance lodge as shown on the Keah-ko calender.
		The Tai-me and it's role in the Sun Dance
		The Kado or Sun Dance of the Kiowa, Hugh Leonard Scott, American Anthropologist, N.S. This article may be reproduced for historical or research purposes.
	rebelcherokee.labdiva.com /Kiowasundance.html (3572 words)

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	Sun Dance
		In 1881 the United States government prohibited the Sun Dance, labeling it "demoralizing and barbarous."
		The ceremony continued to be practiced in secret, however, and in 1941 Shoshone Sun Dance leader John Truhujo reintroduced the dance to the Crow peoples.
		Although the ceremony traditionally belongs to the spiritual heritage of the Plains peoples, it has become an inspiration for traditionalist movements among non-Plains Native Americans as well.
	www.angelfire.com /realm/shades/nativeamericans/sundance.htm (127 words)

	Paul Bloonm's Sun Dance Report 2001
		Sun Dancers, as if they were just tying their shoes, that in no time it
		This was not the first illegal Sun Dance.
		As the Sun Dance progressed, police began to block the roads as they had
	www.blackmesais.org /paul_bloom_sundance_2001.htm (1491 words)

	Sun Dance
		After the pole has been placed before the elders of the village, who begin the sacred task of stripping the bark and preparing the pole for painting in time for the Sun Dance ceremony, the medicine men move away and go and sit down outside their own lodges.
		By the time the Sun is directly above us the first of the dancers to be released are quickly gathered up and carried away.
		They are carried away from the circle and handed over to members of their own families who will carry them back to the lodges of the dancers where their wounds will be treated by the holy men.
	www.lakotawritings.com /Sun_Dance.html (2001 words)

	Sun Dance Creations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Sun Dance Creations Jewelers specializes in unique nature and wildlife jewelry designs...
		Sun Dance Creations Upcoming Events page for a list of shows where we will be displaying our work.
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	www.sundancecreations.com (224 words)

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