NATAMST 151 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Lightning, Arikara, Rabbit Hair

• School: Berkeley
• Department: Native American Studies
• Course: NATAMST 151
• Professor: Diane Pearson

Document Summary

3-10-20 of living earth & all its components. Sun dance -- spiritual renewal of participants & their relatives as well as renewal. Kinships -- both social & natural realms reaffirmed. Regenerative theme -- ex: cheyenne name of structure in which takes place. Sun dance to re-create, re-form, reanimate the earth, vegetation, [&] animal life & therefore ceremony of rebirth of renaissance . Specific reasons for participation vary -- individuals & tribes. Motives for sacrifice -- thanks for blessings. Insure safety of person in armed forces. Crow -- in past -- vengeance for kin killed in warfare. Some tribal traditions include transfer of sacred medicine bundles in the context. Crow medicine man; two whistles; hawk headdress of the ceremony. Week or more -- pvt. period -- preparations; instructions; prayers. Constructing sun dance lodge -- complex rituals -- special tree cut used as.