Some White people ask whether the Lakota worship the sun at the Sundance. The word "worship" refers to the special recognition given to a spiritual person, recognizing that person as divine, or at the highest spiritual order. One Sundance chief said, "So many people have asked me about the Sundance. Do we worship the sun? I tell them, No. We worship almighty God. We admire his work, Without the sun we wouldn't be able to see one another or recognize the different colored people of the world in the four directions of the Sundance."

— The Pipe and Christ by William Stolzman (Page 158)