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Traditional Arapaho music, described by Bruno Nettl (1965, p. 150), includes sacred and secular songs. Traditional music uses terraced descent type melodic motion , with songs consisting of two sections, each with a range of more than an octave and scales of four to six tones.
Placing the clan poles, c. 1910. Several features are common to the ceremonies held by Sun Dance cultures. These include dances and songs passed down through many generations, the use of a traditional drum, a sacred fire, praying with a ceremonial pipe, fasting from food and water before participating in the dance, and, in some cases, the ceremonial piercing of skin and a trial of physical ...
The prophet Sweet Medicine (Motsé'eóeve) was said to designate the four original Cheyenne warrior societies (pl. Nótȧxévėstotȯtse, sing. Nótȧxévestȯtse), which had their own society songs (nótȧxénootȯtse) and were governed by a head man (nótȧxévėhoneve).
The Cheyenne/Suhtai inhabited the Black Hills from 1670–1876, [3]: 179 also believing that the Great Race took place on Inyan Kara Mountain. [3]: 182 The Cheyenne Great Race myth explains the origins of the Cheyenne Sundance or Medicine Lodge. [3]: 182 The Cheyenne tradition of the great race is related to the Suhtai's version.
Traditions associated with sweating vary regionally and culturally. Ceremonies often include traditional prayers and songs. In some cultures drumming and offerings to the spirit world may be part of the ceremony, or a sweat lodge ceremony may be a part of another, longer ceremony such as a Sun Dance. Some common practices and key elements ...
The story focuses on the disappearance of dozens of young indigenous women and girls from the Crow and Northern Cheyenne Nations in Montana’s Big Horn County and surrounding areas over the past ...
Morning Star (Cheyenne: Vóóhéhéve; [1] also known by his Lakota Sioux name Tȟamílapȟéšni or its translation, Dull Knife [2] [3]) (c. 1810–1883) was a great chief of the Northern Cheyenne people and headchief of the Notameohmésêhese ("Northern Eaters"; also simply known as Ȯhmésėhese or "Eaters") band on the northern Great Plains during the 19th century.
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