We cast the spoils of war into it, and it carries them away to the Sun's _tepee_, and the Sun is glad, and so shines for us all." The Blackfeet worshiped the Sun.

The Sun River, a few miles above this cataract, was a medicine or sacred river in the tribal days, and it was in this region of gleaming streams and thundering waterfalls that the once famous Sun-dances were held.
There was a barbarous splendor about these Sun-dances.

The tribes gathered for the festival in the long, bright days of the year.

They wore ornaments of crystal, quartz, and mica, such as would attract and reflect the rays of the sun.

The dance was a glimmering maze of reflections.