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Updated: June 3, 2025
Konate carried the medicine stick in the Sun-dance, for several years, and then handed it on to his nephew K'a-ya-nti, or Falls-over-a-bank, who became Lean Bull the second but the white people called him Poor Buffalo. This apote was a two-pronged stick about four feet long, decorated with wild sage. It was smooth and had no bark, and was brought out only once a year, for the Sun-dance.
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.
Some few yards away there was a shaft of moonlight stretching right across the path which Nevil must take, and on this path Seth kept his eyes. The man came on all unconscious of who and what was awaiting him. He had no thought of his presence at the Sun-dance having been detected.
Loud cries of "How How How," led by Yan. "We gave a sun-dance for his benefit, but he didn't brown seemed too green so we called him Sapwood. From that time he has fought his way up from the ranks and got to be Third War Chief " "How How How."
Down the pass the faraway beat of a drum was heard. It was the steady throb of the tom-tom rising and falling with rhythmic regularity. "Sun-dance," said the Inspector, as near to excitement as he generally allowed himself. "Piegans." "Where?" said Cameron. "In the sun-dance canyon," answered the Inspector. "I believe in my soul we shall see something now. Must be two miles off. Come on."
The medicine spirit sat with Konate most of the night, and told him many things: told him how to make a new kind of Sun-dance shield, and also an a-po-te, or sacred forked staff, that should be a medicine staff and have magic powers. Toward morning the medicine spirit left, saying: "Help is near." Every bit of this Konate firmly insisted was true, although white men claimed that he dreamed.
It was customary to paint the man red and the animal black, and each was suspended from one end of the crossbar which was securely tied some two feet from the top of the pole. I have never been able to determine that this cross had any significance; it was probably nothing more than a dramatic coincidence that surmounted the Sun-Dance pole with the symbol of Christianity.
It has unmistakable features and figures, and it proceeds to its natural finish which leaves the dancers prostrate upon the ground, with their faces pressed hard into the dusty earth. It is a wild scene. But the Sun-dance has only begun. There is much to follow. Now a single figure moves out of the crowd, and takes its position in the arena. It is the young chief.
'Out of the weakness of the flesh he wept under the tortures of the sun-dance. So that's the cause of his trouble! What did they do to you, Red Moon?" To reply, Squaw Charley quickly divested himself of the calico waist and turned about. And Colonel Cummings, uttering his horror, traced with tender finger the ragged, ghastly seams that lined the pariah's back. "Muscles torn loose," he said.
While we were engaged in the Riel rebellion campaign we saw several Sun-dance lodges along the line of our march after Big Bear, these lodges being left standing with a view to frightening our men from pursuing braves who could demonstrate their courage in the way the lodge indicated. The Sun-dance lodge was a circular wooden structure of poles with rafters coming together to a point above.
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