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The Religious Crimes Code bans all Indigenous dances and ceremonies.

Date: 1883

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Congress bans all Native dances and ceremonies, including the Sun Dance, Ghost Dance, potlatches, and the practices of medicine persons. The code gives so-called "Indian agents" authority to use force, imprisonment, and the withholding of rations to stop any cultural practices they deem to be "immoral" or "subversive" to federal government-mandated assimilation policies. The federal government deepens its replacement of Native governance.