In this report I have learned a lot about the Dakota, Lakota, and Nakota which are all Sioux and they all have there scalp dances, there all the same and here they are. The reason they scalp dance is because when they win a victorious win against the enemies in a battle they celebrate by having this special dance. People believe that Europeans introduced scalped dancing to the Sioux. When they would do the scalp dancing they would do it by a fire and have men singing songs from there tribe. Women would dress very well to impress the men and the other people there. Then they would take the skin and hair and cherish it. The skin and hair meant the soul, a scalped person was held to earth and they shall not enter the after life to take there revenge on victorious ancestors. When they were doing all this stuff they made more noise by taking deer and goats hoofs and tie them to sticks to make a rattling noise they would also have ten musicians playing the tambourine. Scalp dancing was used often; they had a defiant and scalped 65 warriors and they took 48 women and children as prisoners. So now you know what I have studied and learned about and I hope that you understand what there scalp dancing was like.
By Brian Tschida
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