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.

In some Native American tribes, the rain dance and the sun dance are the same dance, with different names depending on the time period.