The Arapaho Sun Dance; the Ceremony of the Offerings Lodge Field Columbian Museum Publication 75: Anthropological Series Vol. IV. by George A. Dorsey - 1903

E-256: Field Columbian Museum. Fair. 1903. Paperback. Trade PB. 8vo. The Field Columbian Museum, Chicago, IL. 1905. 228 pgs. Illustrated with 138 full page illustrations. Field Columbian Museum Publication 75. Anthropological Series Vol. IV. Wrappers worn with some shelf-wear to the extremities present (edges of the front wrapper are chipped and worn) . Front wrapper detached. Book is free of ownership marks. Text is clean and free of marks. The Sun Dance is a distinctive ceremony that is central to the religious identity of the Indigenous peoples of the Great Plains. It developed among the horse-mounted, bisonhunting nations who populated the Great Plains in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Those nations at the core of its practice in the bison-hunting era that have continued its practice into the contemporary period include the Arapahos, the Cheyennes (Southern and Northern) , the Blackfoot (who include the Siksikas or Blackfoot proper, the Bloods or Kainahs, and the Northern and Southern Piegans or Pikunis) , and the Sioux (including in particular the westernmost Sioux, who are the seven tribes of the Lakota nation, but also including the Yanktons and Santees, who comprise the six tribes of the Dakota nation). From these four nations, the Sun Dance ceremony spread to the Kiowas and Comanches, who ranged the Southern Plains, and to Northern Plains nations such as the Plains Crees of Saskatchewan and the Sarcees of Alberta, as well as to virtually every other Plains nation in the land between these two extremes, including the Arikaras, Assiniboines, Crows, Gros Ventres, Hidatsas, Mandans, Pawnees, Plains Ojibwas, Poncas, Shoshones, and Utes. EB; First Edition .