sundance
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[edit]sundance (plural sundances)
- Any of various Native American religious rituals with song, dance, praying, etc.
- 1992, Mari Sandoz, Helen Winter Stauffer, Letters of Mari Sandoz, page 340:
- Of course before this there will be lesser fights with Indian foes and whites, and much village life, moving, sundances and other ceremonials to record and a great hunt on the Yellowstone […]
- 2001, Susan Lobo, Kurt Peters, American Indians and the Urban Experience, page 256:
- Mary and her husband, Jack Hyatt (Cherokee/African-American), have participated in sundances for a number of years.
- Gaillardia pulchella, a flowering plant of southern US, from Arizona to Florida, and northern Mexico.