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The Sun Dance usually takes place in and around the Summer Solstice (June 21st) and is the most sacred ceremony of the Plains First Nations, including the Blackfoot. The Europeans considered it a pagan and savage rite of passage. It was eventually outlawed for a time at the end of the nineteenth century. The original dance called for fixed gazing at the Sun while dancing, blowing bone whistles, fasting, self-torture by dragging buffalo skulls and/or being bound to the Sacred Tree with the insertion of a bone under the skin of the chest and then breaking the ties.

Also, the Medicine Wheel, As is the case with most Native tribes who follow medicine wheel teachings, the four main colours of human anchor the four directions. (White, North; Yellow, East, Red (Native) West and Black, South.

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