What kind of dance is the Bison Dance of the Indian tribes and why do they perform this ritual?

Dance is one of the oldest art forms of mankind. In ancient times, it served as a tool for primitive people to communicate their thoughts and feelings. It originated with human productive labor. Action and rhythm and labor are closely related, no matter what kind of labor, human hands and feet always have to be active, hands to beat, feet to step on, in some kind of action in a continuous process of repetition, it produces a regular rhythm, and then accompanied by shouting or striking stones and sticks, the most primitive dance appeared.

In the primitive tribes of mankind, the dance has the whole society, in their organization of loose and unstable life situation, need to have a kind of social inductance to make them unite together, the dance is the important means to produce this inductance. Whether it is caracal hunting or war, is the whole tribe together, so the primitive dance is always collective. Tribes in order to have a *** with the sign, which appeared totem. Totem not only as a symbol of tribal distinction, but also a primitive religious beliefs. Whenever you pray or celebrate, you dance to the totem, which is called totem dance. Totem dance exists in primitive peoples all over the world. North American Indian tribes dance the bison dance, they are superstitious bison and their own tribes have blood relations, jump this dance bison will appear and let them caracal hunting: Australian natives jump their totem snake dance, dancers tattooed face tattoos, as a memorial to their tribal ancestors. The dragon and the wind were the totems of the ancient Chinese peoples. Due to the various tribes to merge with each other, a totem can no longer represent the whole tribe dares to alliance of the *** with the ancestors, so the child kinds of totem features, such as the deer's horns, the snake's body, the fish's scales, the eagle's claws synthesized into the image of the dragon, with the peacock, the pheasant and other features synthesized into the image of the phoenix, they represent the supreme ruler of the ancestor of a family name as the "emperor of virtue" and the "Tiancheng" logo. It was only later that the dragon and the wind were taken as symbols of the auspiciousness of the Chinese nation and the beginning of culture.