Shoshoni-Crow Sun Dance

by Fred W. Voget

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806130865
• ISBN13: 9780806130866
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 372 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.4" x 8.3"