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Oglala Sun Dance Index

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The Sun Dance and Other Ceremonies of the Oglala Division of The Teton Dakota.

Title Page Contents Introduction

The Sun Dance

The Sun Dance Choosing the Mentor Invitations Preparation Of The Candidate Instruction Of A Shaman Secret Instructions for a Shaman Regalia of the Candidate Special Instructions for the Ceremony Duties of the People The Journey of the Bands to the Sun Dance Site The First Day's Ceremony The Second Day The Third Day The Fourth Day The Second Four Day Period Sacred Lodge Erected Scouting For The Tree Building the Sun Lodge The Buffalo Feast Greeting the Sun Capture of the Tree The Procession of Sex Raising The Sun Pole Greeting the Sun on the Fourth, or Mid-Year Day Preparation of the Candidates Installation of the Dancers The Buffalo Dance Piercing Children's Ears The Sun-Gaze Dance The Scalp-Staff Dance Completion of the Ceremony

The Hunka Ceremony

The Hunka Ceremony Equipment for the Ceremony Order of Ceremony The Ceremony The Symbolic Capture Incense and the Pipe The Meat Offering Pronouncing Them Hunka Waving the Wands Rites of the Buffalo Skull Rites of the Ear of Corn Painting and Exchanging Clothing The Secret Ceremony

The Buffalo Ceremony

The Buffalo Ceremony

Translations of Texts

Translations of Texts Wakan Wakan Tanka Conception of Energy The Concept Ni Invocation By A Shaman Sicun Sicun Autobiographical Note by Sword The Number Four The Circle The Four Great Virtues The Causes of Diseases

Narratives

Narratives When the People Laughed at Hanwi When the Wizard Came The Old Woman When Wohpe Came to the World How the North Wind Lost His Birthright How the West Wind Became the Companion of the Winged God Wooing Wohpe The Wars Of The Winds The Feast by Tate How the Lakota Came Upon the World The Buffalo Woman The Death of Iya Iktomi and the Young Man The Stone Boy The Wizard and His Wife How the Lark Won the Race The Sun Dance Taught to the Lakota How Big-Foot Got His Name Legends of the Origin of the Buffalo Ceremony The Beginning of Foot Racing