FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
NATIVE AMERICANS
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True
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Detailed explanation-1: -This ceremony, which lasts from four to eight days, can take place from early spring to mid-summer. The participants usually begin with the Sweat-lodge Ceremony, and gather to celebrate the renewal of life, good growing seasons, a safe community, good health, and so on.
Detailed explanation-2: -Traditionally, a Sun Dance was held by each tribe once a year in late spring or early summer, when the buffalo congregated after the long Plains winters.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Today the Sun Dance is still practiced among tribes. As close as Ethete, WY and the Pine Ridge, Cheyenne River, Standing Rock and Rosebud Sioux reservations in South Dakota. Traditionally each tribe had just one large ceremony.