Elder Keith Chiefmoon and The Sacred Sundance: Preserving the Traditional Ceremony
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Elder Keith Chiefmoon and The Sacred Sundance: Preserving the Traditional Ceremony
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In 1895, the Canadian government banned the Sundance. Intent on destroying the first nation’s way of life and spiritual practices, the colonizers banned various ceremonies and certain practices (like piercing)...
show more“Natosi Okhan is the only Sun Dance society in the region that accepts pledges from non-Indigenous people who do not have long-standing connections with the community and this is highly controversial within the community itself and beyond. This Sun The Sun Dance as a Space for Experiential Learning 49 Dance started around 20 years ago when Keith Chiefmoon, who was a Sun Dancer with another community, decided to give life to a sacred dream where people from the four directions arrived on his family land to dance. In the dream the dancers were very clueless, even to the point of asking inappropriate questions. Keith was told to treat them with utmost respect because their spirits had been called by the land and by all our ancestors to be there to dance in order to heal all relations. Keith was told, and tells us often, that the sun shines the same on everyone—from the tallest mountain to the thistle on the Sun Dance grounds (which are abundant); the sun does not differentiate, and neither should he/we.” From Towards Scarring Our Collective Soul Wound by Cash Ahenakew
music by Shari Ulrich
Photo of Keith Chiefmoon by Colin Bolin
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