sun-dance

"We should be role models in keeping the earth clean," says sun-dance chief Robert (Dude) Perry.

Dirty Dancing 2008

To such elements many other things have been added, but the fact remains that our own formal dances, as well as the sun-dance of the Indian and the mad whirl of the Dervish, are modern products which have truly evolved.

The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope Henry Edward Crampton

The most important of their religious practices is the sun-dance (okan), an elaborate ceremonial performance which needs months of preparation and ends with a week or so of festivities, in which fasting, self-torture, and self-mutilation are joined with rejoicings and frolics of every description.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

"Well, I've been a 'hoodoo' all my, life; and if I only lead some one into luck now -- good luck -- oh, wouldn't I learn a sun-dance, and dance it!"

That Girl Montana Marah Ellis Ryan 1900

"In the sun-dance canyon," answered the Inspector.

Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police; a tale of the Macleod trail Ralph Connor 1898

But the red man no longer set up his tepee in these secluded groves; the wapiti and red deer had fled to the north never to return, the snarling wolf had stolen into regions more barren; the ceremonial of the ancient people no longer made weird the lonely nights; the medicine-man's incantations, the harvest - dance, the green-corn-dance, the sun-dance had gone.

The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

But the red man no longer set up his tepee in these secluded groves; the wapiti and red deer had fled to the north never to return, the snarling wolf had stolen into regions more barren; the ceremonial of the ancient people no longer made weird the lonely nights; the medicine-man's incantations, the harvest-dance, the green-corn-dance, the sun-dance had gone.

The World for Sale, Complete Gilbert Parker 1897

But the red man no longer set up his tepee in these secluded groves; the wapiti and red deer had fled to the north never to return, the snarling wolf had stolen into regions more barren; the ceremonial of the ancient people no longer made weird the lonely nights; the medicine-man's incantations, the harvest - dance, the green-corn-dance, the sun-dance had gone.

The World for Sale, Volume 1. Gilbert Parker 1897

All day, from the closing of the ceremony of shooting at the sun-pole, the attention of the Indians was occupied in constructing this inclosure, where, within a day or two after its completion, they performed those barbarous rites and ceremonies of cruelty and self-torture that have placed the sun-dance of the Sioux on a level with the barbarisms of any of the far more famed devotees of Juggernaut.

The Sun-Dance of the Sioux 1889

Nearly half way between the reservations the two forks of the Chadron (or Shadron) creek form a wide plain, which was chosen as the site of the great sun-dance.

The Sun-Dance of the Sioux 1889