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Show Thursday. July 5 Pow Wow 2! Bear and Sun Dance will be held Duchesne. Indian Tribes throughout the nation are coming to Ft Duchesne to perform individual symbolic dances at the 16th annual Northern Ute Pow .Wow and July 6, 6, 7 and 8 at Ft Prise money will be given to the best dancers in numerous categories, both end old end male and famala, a total purse of $18,000 to be given away at the event Rodeo. Indians will be dancing for prid money and honors at the event which frith are accepted by others and are Each competing dancer will have a chance to perform in .the arena. The dancers can opt to use traditional or fancy style. As each dancer pies through his or her routine, thev will be judged on considered true. The Sun Dance was the plains tribes. lasts for three or four days and nights. The dedicated several criteria: II The intracy of the ' participants go without food and water dancers foot work and style. 2) Hie staring fixedly at the top of the center pole in the Sun Dance lodge when a ability to keep in time with the drum. If the dancer fails to come to a atop on the . Buffalo head or some other symbolic last drumbeat, he ia disqualified. 8) The object represented the sun is often hung. The term" Sun Dance is actually a dancers oufit nreeentation. 4)t If the dancer dropa or loses part of their qutfit. misnomer in the sense of it bring called a If this happens, the dancer ia disqualify "dance. The participants stand more or v lees in one place rising up and down on ied. There" are usually five judges at the ,, their toes or shuffling forward and competition. The winners are announced V ..backward at certain times. They hold after the judges ballots have been , eagle bone whistlee in their mouths, .to tabulated. If there is a tie, adance-of- f is .' sound with each breath.' In the original i' version of the Sun Dance, whose purpose to be held to decide the winner.. On the final night of the performance, 0 it was to show bravery and. special often times, the danceoffs Will go far qualitiee of manliness, the warriors used into the night to determine the champion to go to the mountains and bring down said Darren Cuch, the Arena Director for '' the pries, the next day they would have a sham battle, dressed up ae though they this yews Pow Wow. , Two dances that are extremely ; were on the warpath. Finally one of the leaders, would ride important to the heritage of the Uteo People. are. the Sun Dance and Beer i. by toe pole which is to be the center pole V' w Dance: .. and shoot it with a rifle ending that ,: . BewDattM ' portion of the. ceremony. Towards the evening, at the end of the sham battle The Bew Dance goes far back into the ' the Sun Dance ceremony would begin. At of Ute the old The history 'People. ; the first appearance of the evening star people say the dance originated from the the dancers would then gather inside the first thunder in the spring, said John .Sun Dance lodge. This ia the Victor, Tribal Member. At this print in the ritual, the singers season where the bew that has been would all comes den. out of winter begin the scared songs and the hie asleep The bew emerges from his den and , dancers began the- shuffling.: step proceeding toward the Sun Dance prie to then starts moving back and forth to the rythm of the drums and than scratch along the bark of a tree. The backward to their original positions. This feels and he because mod scratches bew action ia continued while the dancers knows the grass will grow and there will be plenty to eat keep their eyes constantly on the .Sun Dance pole. It is the bears action that the Indians The leader of ' the dance to in their dance. .Tfoy1 represent try fanned the dancers at the center in the spring, and imitate the gather scratching bew by the drawing of a ' with his eagle tail feathers entire , body from1' head to ' foot, notched stick j. that . gives . a . deep scratching sound. The Indians like to , ' murmuring prayers to the Sun that the dancer may oe pleased and made useful perform this dance in spring and sing Often times the leader would bring in the in with made along harmony up songs sick and tortured and offer prayers over for the season. . their condition, in . what is termed The time to celebrate the Bew Dance ia decided by a committee of Chiefs and making medicine for the correction of such a person's condition. The' Sun respected leaders. The committee, also 'Dance closes with a feast in which all derides when the accompanying feast is members of the tribe participate. to be held and who should prepare the common to newly all The ceremony usually . . . r - - - . . . : . . ' : 'V''---.-:;'- Bear Dance chiefs and singer draw a bow across the notched stick to make the sound of a scratching bear. (Left) Ed Wyasket. Pete Mt. Sheep, Henry Cesspooch and Milton Jenkins. . - ... 1' ' . EUERViU VOU DEED. . . - . - food. . State and Ute Fishing Licenses Fishing Supplies . Lump and Stock Coal Gasoline Groceries Dry Goods Ladies Apparel Work Boots Levi's and Wranglers Cowboy Shirts Buster Brown Clothing We wish the Uts Pow Wow and Rodao Success. From Phil and Glenna ID ODE STOREI TORE E. Hwy.40 Ft. Duchesne Posters are printed to publicize the dance and practice sessions start about a' month before. Before the dance, a bew flag is raised on a pda within the enclosure of boughs and willows that have been interlaced to form a large . Northern Ute Pow Wow and Rodeo Special supplement of the Uintah Basin STANDARD. circle. All ages are welcome to dance. The women traditionally wew shawls, which are 'playfully flipped in the facee of the men as an invitation to dance. ' ' Men line up in one line and the women in another feeing each other about four feet apart. To the rythm of the Bound, the lines move baric and forth fanlfcatfag the shuffling gait of the bew. SunDaece A dance that is unrelated to the Pow Wow, but is an important part of the Utos life is the Sun Dance. The Utes learned the dance sometime in the late 1800s. The ceremony hae become toe single most important social and religious event in their lives, and is still performed today. There is great diversity in the of the Sun Dance because ot indh Ute dream experiences, which allow for many explanations. All meanings which ' participants attach to the dreams or visions in good ' PubWied by the Uintah Basin STANDARD, 2SS South Main Roosevelt, Utah S40M. 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