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A rain dance being performed in Harar, Eastern Ethiopia Rain dance, ca. 1920 (from the Potawatomi agency, presumably Prairie Band Potawatomi people) Rainmaking is a weather modification ritual that attempts to invoke rain. It is based on the belief that humans can influence nature, spirits, or the ancestors who withhold or bring rain. [1]
The Cree and Saulteaux have conducted at least one Rain Dance (with similar elements) each year since 1890 somewhere on the Canadian Plains. [ citation needed ] In 1993, responding to what they believed was a frequent desecration of the Sun Dance and other Lakota sacred ceremonies, US and Canadian Lakota, Dakota and Nakota nations held "the ...
Dihosana is a traditional dance by Kalanga people or Ikalanga people which existed for a long period of time. Dihosana involves the invitation of ancestors through trance to pray for rain. It is a rain making dance. [1] Dihosana is a dance heritage which has been inherited from the fore fathers by those practising it.
The eagle dance is a ritual dance practiced by some American Indians. It is used by the Pueblos to ask for rain, and Iroquois use it to ask for peace and cure. It originated from the calumet dance and is performed by two to four men with artificial wings on their arms, producing movements that imitate eagles .
Mhande is defined as an indigenous song-dance performed as part of the mutoro ceremony, the annual rain ritual of the Karanga. [3] The Mhande dance goes beyond a typical dance performed to a song; it carries historical significance and a deeper meaning.
Next, girls running for Powwow Princess and Little Miss Wampanoag do a dance during the tribe's annual July powwow. Hendricks started doing "blanket dance" when she was 4, but switched to "women's ...
Following the Treaty of Chicago in 1833, by which the tribe ceded its lands in Illinois, most of the Potawatomi people were removed to Indian Territory, west of the Mississippi River. Many perished en route to new lands in the west on their journey through Iowa , Kansas, and Indian Territory, following what became known as the " Trail of Death ".
There are different types of dances performed by the Kuku tribe. Young members of the tribe often do a rain dance when there is a drought. Elders sometimes participate when they really want/need to. There are dances of mourning during funerals. Family members of the deceased abstain from dancing to show their grief.