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Article: KIOWA ELDERS FIGHT SUN DANCE PLANS REVIVAL OF BANNED CEREMONY DISTURBS WARRIOR SOCIETIES; FEMALE ORGANIZER CRIES SEXISM.(News/National/International)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- June 1, 1997
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Byline: Charles T. Jones The Daily Oklahoman Scripps Howard News Service
ANADARKO, Okla. -- Tribal elders, holy men and more than a half-dozen warrior societies of the Kiowa tribe have turned to fax machines to block efforts of a woman to resurrect the long-banned Sun Dance ceremony.
A resolution by Kiowa elders calls the planned performance of a Crow version of the Sun Dance ``a giant leap backwards for traditional Kiowa societies as a whole.'' The plan is causing ``emotional and psychological abuse among some of our Kiowa Elders,'' the resolution says.
Decades ago, Kiowa holy men convened annual gatherings of the scattered bands of their ...