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The form of the coremoiiy herewith presented is that of the Sioux 

 on the Standing Rock Reservation, in Dakota, a majority of whom 

 belong to the Teton division. In ohl times the tribe was so large 

 and so widely scattered that Sun dances were held at more than one 

 locality, the Teton and Yanktonai usually uniting in a ceremony, 

 which was held on the western portion of the Dakota prairie. Thus 

 their traditions of the ceremony have much in common, while the 

 Sun-dance customs of the Santee, Sissetori, and other (Uvisions of the 

 tribe living toward the east, present many radical differences, 



THE SUN DANCE OF THE TETON SIOUX 



The -^Titer's study of the Sun dance was made in 1911 among the 

 Teton and Yanktonai Sioux on the Standing Rock Reservation, in 

 North and South Dakota. The principal part of the work was done 

 in a series of conferences covering a period of several weeks, these 

 being held at the Standing Rock Agency. Fifteen men took part, and 

 about 40 others were interviewed. These informants, who were 

 carefully selected, lived within a radius of about 80 miles. Below 

 will be found a brief sketch ot each of the men who took part in the 

 conferences. Ten are of pure Teton blood. Several of these men 

 have been prominent in the history of the tribe and its negotiations 

 with the Government. With one exception — a noted warrior who 

 took part in the battle known as the Custer massacre — they were 

 friendly to the white men during the troublous days on the frontier. 

 Six of the men have steadily refused to be influenced by the mission- 

 aries and still retain the native religious beliefs. 



Among the Cheyenne: 



Dorsey, George A., The Cheyenne, pt. 2, in Pubs. Field Col. Mus., Anthr. scr., ix, No. 2, Chicago, 1905. 



Hayden, F. V., Contribution.s to the Ethnography and Philology of the Indian Tribes of the Missouri 

 VaUey, p. 280, Philadelphia, 1^02. 



Mooney, James, The Cheyenne Indians, in Mems. Aincr. Anthr. As-^oc, vol. 1, pp. 369, 417, Lancaster, 

 Pa., 190,5-1907. 



Among the Arapaho: 



Dorsey, George A., The Arapaho Sun Dance; The Ceremony of the Offerings Lodge, op. cit., iv, 1903. 



Among the Ponca: 



Dorsey, James Owen, A Study of Siouan Cults, in Eleventh Rep. Bur. Ethn., p. 378, 1894 



Among the Kiowa: 



Scott, Hugh Lenox, Notes on the Kado, or Sun dance of the Kiowa, in Amer. Anthr. .xm, No. 3, pp. 

 345-79, Lancaster, Pa., 1911. 



Among the Mandan: 



Catlin describes and illustrates a ceremony similar in some respects to the Sun dance, under the title 

 "Annual Religious Ceremony;" see Catlin, op. cit., pp. 15.5-77. 



This ceremony is also described as the "Okippo" of the Mandan by Maximilian, Prince of Wied, in 

 Travels in the Interior of North America (translated from the German by H. Evans I>loyd), pp. 372-78, 

 London, 1S93. 



Among the Blackfoot: 



Wilson, R. N., The Sacrificial Rite of the Blackfoot, in Proc. and Trans. Roy. Soc. Canada, 1909, 3d ser., 

 vol. 3, sec. n, pp. 3-21, Ottawa, 1910. 



Among the Minitarl (a division of the Hidatsa): 



Matthews, Wasliington, Ethnography and Philology of the Hidatsa Indians, U. S. Geol. and Geogr. Sun., 

 Misc. Pub. No. 7, pp. 45, 46, 1877. 



James, Edwin, Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, performed in the 

 years 1S19 and '20, under the command of Maj . Stephen H. Long, pp. 276, 277, Philadelphia, 1823. 



See also articles Sun dance and Ceremony by George A. Dorsey in Handbook of American Indians. 



