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The Crow , and Shoshone fasten an actual golden Eagle head to the entrance of the dance. The Eagle was considered the ''Chief'' of all animals in the sky or nest. And a very powerful animal in battle. The Eagle is admired for courage, Swiftness, and Strength. The Eagle is believed protect the people from harm, devastation, or any kind of evil.
The bird kept the connection between the people and all super natural forces. Bald Eagle. The Buffalo is known to be the very source of life for the plains Indians. The Buffalo is said to radiate power. They are also very important because the migration of the heard determines where and when the Sun-Dance will be held. Many songs are sung as the dance progresses changing in tempo and speed. To resemble the sound of a Buffalo heard traveling across the prairie.
Vogal The Lakota placed a dried Buffalo penis on the sun pole to give the dancers virility. It also reinforced the point of the ceremony by drawing attention to the power of the sun. The Sun-Dancers sometimes wore rabbit skins on their arms and legs.
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The rabbit was admired for quickness, slyness, and for its extreme cleverness. As a rule the Sun-Dancers went without food or water for the whole time the sun dance was going on. Witch sometimes lasted ten or more days. Or until the dancer had a vision.
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Torture There where many forms of torture, self torture was one of them. A row of dancers took their places promptly at sunrise but it was nine or ten before the torture actually began. Generally in two or three hours the victim is freed but in many cases double or even triple that time is required. The warriors chosen were between the age of twenty and twenty-five.
They were also the best warriors available. The warriors would have two slits cut in their skin. A skewer would be put in the skin with a string attached to it that is also attached to the sun pole that was in the middle of the ring. Then the warriors would jerk back and forth to try to get the skin around the skewer to tear away setting the warrior free. The Sun Pole The center pole is a very important part of the sun-dance.
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A tree was selected, The leaves where cut from the top of the tree. Then the tree was stood upright, being held by ropes made of buffalo thongs. The ropes were fastened to stakes in the ground placed about eighty feet away from the actual Sun Pole. These ropes along with several others that were closer to the Sun Pole together made a large circle. Stretched over the stakes were Elk and Buffalo skin, bundles of brush, and blankets. Sometimes canvas was thrown over the supporting ropes meant to block the sun though doing very little good. The eldest woman would lead a group of young maidens to strip the tree of its branches, to prepare it for the dance.
The fallen tree was treated just like a fallen enemy. A bundle was placed at the fork of the tree. The bundle contained Buffalo Hide, Straws full of Tobacco, and other religious offerings. Their moccasins were tattered, their feet bleeding. At last they came to a high cliff. Clambering up, they looked over the countryside and saw that no one was on their trail.
But on a ledge far below them they spied a nest with two young eagles in it. There was no way to climb down the sheer rock wall, but Black Crow took his rawhide lariat, made a loop in it, put the rope around Spotted Eagle's chest, and lowered him. When his friend was on the ledge with the nest, Black Crow said to himself: "I can leave him there to die.
When I come home alone, Red Bird will marry me. He threw his end of the rope down and went away without looking back or listening to Spotted Eagle's cries.
At last it dawned on Spotted Eagle that his friend had betrayed him, that he had been left to die. The lariat was much too short to lower himself to the ground; an abyss of three hundred feet lay beneath him. He was alone with the two young eagles, who screeched angrily at the strange, two-legged creature that had invaded their home. Black Crow returned to his village. There was loud wailing throughout the village, because everybody had liked Spotted Eagle.
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Red Bird slashed her arms with a sharp knife and cut her hair to make her sorrow plain to all. But in the end because life must go on, she became Black Crow's wife. Spotted Eagle, however, did not die on his lonely ledge. The eagles got used to him, and the old eagles brought plenty of food - rabbits, prairie dogs, and sage hens - which he shared with the two chicks.
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Maybe it was the eagle medicine in his bundle, which he carried on his chest that made the eagles accept him. Still, he had to tie himself to a little rock sticking out of the cliff to keep from falling off in his sleep. In this way he spent some uncomfortable weeks, after all, he was a human being and not a bird to whom a crack in the rock face is home. At last the young eagles were big enough to practice flying. Then he had an inspiration, and told himself, "Perhaps I'll die.
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Very likely I will. But I won't just sit here and give up. Spotted Eagle took his little pipe out of his medicine bundle, lifted it up to the sky, and prayed: "Wakan Tanka, onshimala ye: Great Spirit, pity me. You have created man and his brother, the eagle. You have given me the eagle's name. Now I will try to let the eagles carry me to the ground. Let the eagles help me; let me succeed. He smoked and felt a surge of confidence. Then he grabbed hold of the legs of the two young eagles. Now we will live together, or die together.
He expected to be shattered on the ground below, but with a mighty flapping of wings, the two young eagles broke his fall and the three landed safely. Spotted Eagle said a prayer of thanks to the ones above. Then he thanked the eagles and told them that one day he would be back with gifts and have a giveaway in their honor. Spotted Eagle returned to his village.
The excitement was great.