The Sundance

• It lasts for 28 days, but the last 4 days are the most important. 
• On the second, they cut a tree bring it to the center of the ceremony for the piercing.
• On the third, male sun-dancers who agreed to be get two incisions cut in their chest by the Medicine Man/Men.
• Then pegs are added into the holes, making the sundancer blessed.
• The dancers go to the tree in the center of the ceremony where there are ropes attached to the top, and attach these ropes to the pegs.
• they dance to and back from the tree three times, and then yank themselves back with all of their might, ripping off the skin where the pegs are held in.
•  The skin is then cut off the pegs, and placed at the center base of the tree, completing the sacrifice.
• Afterwards the participants get to endure a feast especially for them to celebrate.
• Only the Lakota Sioux contains the piercing for their ceremony.
• They are the warriors of the American Indians, and consequently sacrifice for everyone.
  
  Sketch of the piercing for the Sundance.