Traditional Indian life was ceremonial act in everyday
life with dance. They practiced appreciate life through dance expressing their
thoughts and feelings toward the Great Spirit’s guidance. Their dance meant
adequate communication with the Great Spirit and understand the natural occurrences
and some control over the nature (Elton 114).
Indian dances function as welcoming the strangers,
ceremonial friendship, and played the good luck in the difficult time of war and
hunting. Indian dance also brings the hope of blessing and thanksgiving for
successful war, hunting, producing the crops. They practiced varieties of
dances: such as Grass dance, War dance, Ghost dance, Sun dance, Honor dance,
Grand Entry dance, Victory dance, social dance, competition dance, and chicken
dance, etc. (Elton 114-115).
Perspective of Indian dance shall have been extinct
with buffalo days, but still remain just as the Indians around. During the
transitional generation some traditional baggage’s and dances lost and some have
survived, but in a mixed style of dances. The only real traditional dance is
the Sundance which holding the heart of Indian in culture (Elton 120). Unfortunately,
the Pigeon reserve powwows dance will not last much longer because of the power
of money plays the role in controlling the dancers (Elton 118-120).
Sadly, the Indian dance industry have banned the responsibility
to caring out the meaning of the costume associating with dreams of Indian. It
is no longer a part of the past. Rather, to please pleased the audience, they
spend around eight months to make a costume in twitch he beading it by hand
otherwise nobody will look at the shabby costume. The Powwow dance still
carries some of the tradition of spirituality as if returning to the past of
Indian life. (Elton 120-121).
According to other resources, some native people practiced Sun Dance in America and Canada. The purpose of the dance
was to promote healing and personal sacrifice on behalf of the community.
Traditional-Native
American - Sun Dance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vioh7ML75Cg
Modern-The Sundance
Ceremony
The Traditional Pow Wow dance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdUnLToeISU
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