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A dance performed by Plains Indians in honor of the sun and to prove bravery by overcoming pain.
as modifier‘the Sun Dance pole was already up’
‘One need only note the permanent structures for sun dances and other native religious ceremonies that can be seen on most reserves.’
‘Even their most sacred religious ceremony, the sun dance, has been disrupted by federal agents who ordered the ceremonial grounds to be flattened by bulldozers.’
‘It was an object that had been prayed over, if you will, by the leaders of the sun dance, and it had been around the sun dance fire.’
‘I'd been reading a lot Native American literature, which talked a lot about the sun dance.’
‘Kip Rollins is a champion surfer who now does body-piercing and Indian sun dance rituals, rituals for initiation into manhood.’
‘Chanting for summer, in my own urban sun dance, I'd voice my mantra to friends, ‘Today is the longest day of the year!’’
‘After being woken at dawn for a sun dance routine, the pair stayed awake to chat about Bez's angry reaction to the news that he'd been nominated yesterday..’
‘Earlier that summer, perhaps in late June, Crazy Horse's people had hosted a sun dance.’
‘One breaks into an impromptu jig, or sun dance, or hobo shuffle, whatever, while the others clap the beat.’
‘But all the while, Robert Redford has been doing an altogether more literal kind of sun dance: preaching the clean-energy gospel at the grassroots, in the op-ed pages of newspapers, on the big screen, and inside the Beltway.’