The Shoshoni-Crow Sun Dance by Fred W. Voget

The Shoshoni-Crow Sun Dance by Fred W. Voget

(Civilization of the American Indian Series)

Paperback

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.

Paperback: 368 pages

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press (September 15, 1998)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0806130865

ISBN-13: 978-0806130866

Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 1.1 x 8.3 inches