Show Ute Tribe Schedules Sun Dances Two Ute Sun Dances are are scheduled this summer the first one will be July 11 12 13 and 14 with Amos Jim Wash and Charley Atwine as chiefs The feast will be beheld beheld beheld held July 15 THE SECOND called the thc Victory Sun Dance will be August 8 9 10 and 11 with the feast on August 12 War dancing will follow the feast said chiefs Tommy and John loupe Ioupe They will be held at the Ute Indian Sun Dance grounds about four miles east of Neola They can also be reached by driving north at the Todd Elementary Elementary Ele Ele- School some five miles east of Roosevelt on Highway 40 then turn west at atthe atthe atthe the Neola road about one mile PARTICIPANTS in the Sun SunDance SunDance SunDance Dance neither eat nor drink during the three or four four day day dance Once the dance starts the dancers stay there During the first night sleeping bags or quilts are brought for them to lie down when they become tired and after resting they go goon goon goon on dancing A Sun Dance corral is built for each each dance dance under the direction direction dir dir- of th the chiefs of that dance Special poles and trees and drummers keep time for forthe forthe forthe the dancers A special observance each esch day is the sunrise ceremony |