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Show UTE INDIANS MEET FOR BIG SUN DANCE Special to The Tribune. VERNAL, July 7. Sixty Ute Indians have left the Ute reservation and are now in the southern part of the stnte below Montlcello, at Navajo Springs, where they will conduct the annual Ute Indian sun dance In the very near future. Opposition on the part of the Indian department to the holding of the sun dance at the famous Whlterocks sun dance grounds is responsible re-sponsible for the departure to the southern south-ern part of the state. The sun dance, signifying the entrance of the Ute Indian from boyhood to manhood man-hood and his becoming a warrior, fs the most sacred and also famous of all the Ute dances. The Utes dance for four days and nights without food or drink around the sun dance lodge, and if they survive this severe test they are warriors. Because Be-cause of the torture tests, the Indian department de-partment has forbidden it of late. |