SCOUTING YESTERDAY | Pine Ridge chief preserves banned ceremony
This week in South Dakota history: July 10–16
For nearly a century, one of the Lakota Indians’ most sacred practices was illegal in the United States.
But 75 years ago, with permission from the federal government, on July 16, 1951, Chief William Spotted Crow led a Sun Dance on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Offering prayers to the Great Spirit, the ceremony sought an end to the Korean War, according to the Argus Leader.
The most important ceremony practiced by many Plains Indians, the Sun Dance seeks renewal for the tribe, its people and the earth, according to Chamberlain’s Aktá Lakota Museum and Cultural Center.
Law enforcement sweep results in 35 arrests of fugitives, absconders and others in Sioux Falls area
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