Rare Footage of the Sioux Tribe’s Sacred Ghost Dance Ritual #nativeamerican #AmericanHistory #indigenous | Native Cultures Consortiums

In 1962 the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe (the “Tribe”) held its first Siouxtennial. The idea behind the event was to highlight the “progress” made over the previous one hundred years. The powwow drew in hundreds of dancers from across the upper Midwest. Thousands of partakers, most having never seen a powwow before. The powwow was something of a novelty, even by the standards of the Flandreau Santee Sioux at the time, it was a spectacle to behold. A powwow was typically something only caricature