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Article: JUDGE GRANTS INJUNCTION BANNING SUN DANCE
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- The Ojibwe News
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- June 6, 1997
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Ojibwe News, The
06-06-1997
JUDGE GRANTS INJUNCTION BANNING SUN DANCE
Kiowa tribal elders have won their fight to keep a long-banned ceremonial dance from being performed on Kiowa land in Fort Cobb. A federal judge Friday granted an injunction barring the Sun Dance from being performed. Tribal member Vanessa Jennings had planned to bring in a Crow-Shoshoni Sun Dance priest from Montana to perform the once-sacred dance from Sunday through June 8. Tribal elders said they didn't want the Crow version of the dance performed. A resolution passed by the elders called the performance "a giant leap backwards for traditional Kiowa societies as a whole." The Sun Dance was to Kiowas something like ...