
By Fred W. Voget
Approximately 1875 the Crows deserted their very own sunlight Dance, yet they endured to hold out different conventional rites regardless of competition from missionaries and the government. In 1941, Crow Indians from Montana sought out leaders of the solar Dance one of the Wind River Shoshonis in Wyoming and lower than the course of John Truhujo, made the rite part of their lives. within the Shoshoni-Crow sunlight Dance, Fred W. Voget attracts on 40 years of fieldwork to explain the folk and conditions resulting in this singular occasion, the character of the rite, the reconciliation’s with Christianity and peyotism, the position of the solar Dance as a catalyst for the reassertion of Crow cultural id, and where the solar Dance now holds in Crow existence and tradition. Voget’s description comprises images and diagrams of the sunlight Dance.