During the most popular version of this ceremony, an open door facing east is the only entrance to the "hocoka", a temporary arbor built around a cottonwood tree.
During the most popular version of this ceremony, an open door facing east is the only entrance to the "hocoka", a temporary arbor built around a cottonwood tree. Some participants in this ceremony plunge hooks into the skin on their chests, which are attached to poles set in the ground by bison sinews. A series of rafters are set around a sacred pole within a medicine lodge in the Blackfoot version of this ritual, which was suppressed in the United States and Canada until the mid-20th century. For 10 points, the Sioux and other Plains Indians practice what ritual in which the power of a heavenly body is invoked?
During the most popular version of this ceremony, an open door facing east is the only entrance to the "hocoka", a temporary arbor built around a cottonwood tree.
sun dance [or wi wanyang wacipi; or sun gazing dance]