Sun Dance Definition

noun
A religious ceremony widely practiced among Native American peoples of the Great Plains, typically marked by several days of fasting and group dancing and sometimes including ritual self-torture, as in penance or to induce a trance or vision.
American Heritage
A religious dance in worship of the sun performed at the summer solstice by certain Plains Indians.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Sun Dance

Noun

Singular:
sun dance
Plural:
sun dances

Sun Dance Sentence Examples

  • They call the sun dance barbarous, savage, a bloody superstition.

  • Tribes of this area held a special sun dance ceremony, with dancing accompanied on a large drum with a variety of special songs being sung as they pay homage to the sun through their movement.

  • The U.S. Federal Government banned the sun dance during the period when the Native Americans were being forced to relocate either west of the Mississippi or develop Western living standards.

  • During this period when the sun dance was not allowed, many tribes started calling it the rain dance so that they would be allowed to practice it in peace.

  • Other regions might have wanted more sunlight than was the norm for the region, in which case the rain dance may have actually been more of a sun dance.

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