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.
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