Sitting Bull og soldansen: en historisk gennemgang

as the Sitting Bull was a skilled warrior and chieftain of hunkpapa tribe, he got many faces themselves. he demonstrede even the power of his' medicine 'in a' battle 'against some soldiers who accompanied a group of surveyors. Sitting Bull sat in the open air and smoke peacefully at his pipe, while the soldiers' bullets flew on ørende him. Like Geronimo he seems to be skudsikker. before Custer attacks in 1876 was about 15,000 Indians came to sitting bulls camp to see lives mediscin. Here listed Sitting Bull a soldans. were cut hundreds of small pieces of meat from his arms, before he danced and gazed up into the sun. then he received a powerful vision. it showed soldiers who fell dead on 'the locusts' india enterprises considered that this approach created their victory at Little Bighorn. Soldansen. prairie Indians had many intricate ceremonies that made a big indtryg. the largest party was the one held in the great summer camp. here there was plenty of meat from hunting, the wild soft fruit was ripe and the whole tribe assembled. Sioux'erne called the Dance of ¨ ¨ Dance to the sun and the white gave the name soldansen Center post. each satmme danced soldansen differently. dance was very complicated, since many steps were done in a very bedstemt way. any object and any stage had its own sacred significance. the MAIN part of the dance was the same everywhere. Monday fælede a balsam poplar and the strain in the camp with a group of branches around stammen.dansen lasted for four days and were given no food or drink in the four days. they looked up at the sun in some strains against tree trunk and tested their stamina. Some men went even Vidreres the sasatte wooden stick into the skin on the chest and the pegs were a leash up piles. then they danced until the skin was torn into pieces and they were free