The Religious Crimes Code bans all Indigenous dances and ceremonies.
Date: 1883
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.