Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1927-08-04 | Page 3 | Indians Fall in Exhaustion

INDIANS FALL IN EXHAUSTION I Less Than Half Able to toGo toGo toGo Go Through Third Night T g of Dance LEANDER Wyo Aug 4 4 By By The Associated Press Press Of 60 Shoshone Indian braves bra who three days ago be began be be- began gan an their annual sun dance on the reservation near n ar here less than half halt I were able to continue the gruelling pace ace Wednesday night With hay crops harvested har and their grain fields I irrigated g for o the last hJ i JI t time ff the t Indian d opened e their annual celebration here Monday with a sham battle and the killing of a fl tree to be used as the center pole of their dancing dancing ing arena Since then without food or drink or rest they have ha danced up to the center pole and back to the edge edgo of the circle blowing whistles continuously Each morning the maimed blind or otherwise I afflicted members m of f the tribe are o the center e ep pole p and the dancers perform a healing ceremony for them One by one the braves have o fallen until but a few were left to carry on through Wednesday the last night of the sun dance