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The Holy Men would prepare bull skulls that were attacked to the dancers with thongs. Dancers had sage ring on their head ankles and wrist. Then dancers would get pierced by the Holy Men on both sides or their back or pierce their backs. Then the dance would start.

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The Holy Men and dancers were purified before the dance.Most had mentor to help them throughout the ceremony

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After they put the tree in the middle the dance would start at sunrise the next day. Anyone could dance and the dancers would look at the sun during the dance and had short breaks but could not eat or drink during the break. Usually only men danced but the women could also dance during the ritual.

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When the dance was performed many would rather and one performance would be in a circle and next to that one would be another circle with people around and there were many circle in a bigger circle of the group of people that rather to watch.

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The Holy Men was sent to a forest to get a tree and they would cut the tree down and it wouldn't be able to touch the ground. Then they would trim the tree and decorated it to be at the center of the circle.

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The dance was 4-6 days long. It showed life and death throughout the days. When performing this dance the dancer would inflict self harm to ask the Gods for something. In South Dakota the whites were scared of the dance because they thought the Native Americans were going to rebel so they outlawed the dance

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The Sun Dance was the most important ceremony practiced by the Lakota (Sioux) Tribe and a lot of Plains tribe/Indians.