Roosevelt Standard | 1943-07-22 | Page 1 | Indians End Historic Sun Dance

Indians End Historic Sun Dance A tradition which harks back to the era when Utah was a wide expanse of paine land known only to Indians the annual four-day sun dance of Ute Indians from the Uintah-Ouray reserva-night at the picturesque sun dance grounds near The ancient religious rite conducted with all the splendor and colorful regalia of a forgotten era began Friday at sundown and concluded late Monday as thousands of tourists and residents of near-by communities witnessed one of the few remaining Indian ceremonial Dressed in traditional Indian the tribesmen danced from early morning until laic in the night each day of the Exact significance of the ceremony is not although it is known to be of a religious nature dating back to events of untold yean The affair annually attracts thousands of