Sundancing: The Great Sioux Piercing Ceremony

Sundancing: The Great Sioux Piercing Ceremony by Mails, Thomas E.. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781571780621.

More detailed than any book ever written on the Sioux Sun Dance, Sundancing:The Great Sioux Piercing Ceremony, unveils this long-secret ritual through exclusive photographs, color paintings, drawings, and first-hand accounts of the participants. Thomas E. Mails was the only white man, before or since, invited to witness and photograph every phase of the entire four-day Sun Dance. This is a ground-breaking work-available for the first time in over a decade in this newly designed edition Sundancing: The Great Sioux Piercing Ritual includes a complete account of the Sun Dances at Rosebud and at Pine Ridge. Frank Fools Crow, the late renowned Sioux holy man and Ceremonial Chief of the Teton Sioux, describes this deeply spiritual ritual in his own words. Other informants include Chief Eagle Feather as well as young participants describing their experiences during the dance.