In 1883, acting on the advice of Bureau of Indian Affairs personnel, the U.S. secretary of the interior criminalized the Sun Dance and a variety of other indigenous religious practices; under federal law the secretary was entitled to make such decisions without consulting Congress or the affected parties.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Sun-Dance
The American Dream right?
Land Of The Free!
This is why a second American revolution is required.
Oh, come on! 1883 is 134 years ago! I'm sure things have changed since then and the Sun-Dance can now be performed.
But
The
Sun-Dance did include some rather unpleasant practices.
Supplicants began dancing at an appointed hour and continued intermittently for several days and nights; during this time they neither ate nor drank. In some tribes supplicants also endured ritual self-mortification beyond fasting and exertion; in others such practices were thought to be self-aggrandizing. When practiced, self-mortification was generally accomplished through piercing: mentors or ritual leaders inserted two or more slim skewers or piercing needles through a small fold of the supplicant’s skin on the upper chest or upper back; the mentor then used long leather thongs to tie a heavy object such as a buffalo skull to the skewers. A dancer would drag the object along the ground until he succumbed to exhaustion or his skin tore free. Among some tribes the thongs were tied to the centre pole, and the supplicant either hung from or pulled on them until free. Piercing was endured by only the most committed individuals, and, as with the rest of the ritual, it was done to ensure tribal well-being as well as to fulfill the supplicant’s individual vow.
But maybe you are a little late in your bid to allow indigenous Americans to maim themselves.
I suspect that, in these enlightened days, they are already allowed that freedom, on their land!
So come the Second Revolting Revolution!
with it's REVOLTING 15-year-old Leader, flourishing his cap-gun!