LITERATURE QUESTIONS
NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE
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How you get somewhere is just as important as what you do once you get there
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In nature, things happen cyclically, rather than in a straight line
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Traditions are a basic part of human existence
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Natural resources, like sunlight, should be celebrated
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Detailed explanation-1: -Dancers offered prayers for their family, for the Earth and for their communities. Those who participated in Sun Gaze Dances performed personal sacrifice through piercings and flesh offerings. The Sun Dance was an emotional experience and an opportunity to renew kinship ties, arrange marriages and exchange property.
Detailed explanation-2: -A public and dramatic annual American Indian religious ceremony held before the summer bison hunt, the sun dance spread across the Great Plains some time after 1800. The sun dance was a highlight of Oklahoma summer encampments among the Cheyenne, Ponca, and Kiowa.
Detailed explanation-3: -Sun Dance, most important religious ceremony of the Plains Indians of North America and, for nomadic peoples, an occasion when otherwise independent bands gathered to reaffirm their basic beliefs about the universe and the supernatural through rituals of personal and community sacrifice.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Sun Dance – Wiwáŋyaŋg Wačípi, was the most important ceremony practiced by the Lakota (Sioux) and nearly all Plains Indians. It was a time of renewal for the tribe, people and earth. The village was large, as many bands came together for this annual rite.