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Author : Jonathan H. Ellerby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (184 download)
Download or read book Spirituality, Holism and Healing Among the Lakota Sioux written by Jonathan H. Ellerby and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Spirituality, Holism and Healing Among the Lakota Sioux, Towards an Understanding of Indigenous Medicine written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I understand that some things are not meant to be studied. Some things are inherently beyond materialistic examination and evaluation. For many Indigenous people, spiritual leaders, and traditional healers, Indigenous medicine and spirituality are matters that should remain beyond the microscope, beyond study and the written word. The strange path of history however, has made it such that the non-Indigenous study and understanding of Indigenous spirituality and healing has become essential to the healing of Indigenous nations. If non-Indigenous institutions are to provide culturally appropriate care and to support Indigenous systems of healing, a meaningful understanding of Indigenous healing must come first. I have undertaken this project to contribute to the preservation and strengthening of Indigenous healing traditions through education. The maintenance of traditional healing ways is a matter of central importance to many Indigenous nations and carries implications for all people. The health and freedomof one nation shapes the health and freedom of all. In his autobiography, 'Sacred Fireplace, ' revered Lakota Holy Man, Pete Catches shares a prayer for his readers. I respectfully offer these good words as a prayer for those who read this: "May the Great Spirit's love, and in His goodness, bless you. The Great Spirit will bless those people who may read this book. I pray He will implant in their hearts a love and compassion for the sick. If we can each in our own way, and according to our own means, be able to lend a hand to others, then we know that we live in the light of the Great Spirit."
Author : Sheila R. Simons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (522 download)
Download or read book Healing Among the Lakota Sioux written by Sheila R. Simons and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this theis was to explore the traditional healing ceremonies among the Lakta Sioux nation. The research reflected an understanding of the distinct nature of Indigenous healing systems in a manner that is both congruent with Indigenous methodologies and intelligible to non-Indigenous readers. In order to examine and describe on Indigenous system of healing, a case study of the researchers experience of the philosophy and work of a Lakota spiritual leader was presented. Through the process of case study and original fieldwork and a review of the literature, a basic understanding of Lakota healing was described. Central to this research of Lakota healing is that Lakota healing is fundamentally spiritual and holistic, and this was explained by exploring basic philosophical principles, and comparisons with Western principles of medicine. Qualities of Lakota healing that were different from the Western biomedical model were also emphasized. An understanding of the conceptual world behind Lakota healing was stressed over the investigation of healing practices or devices. -- p.[i].
Author : Paul Steinmetz
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1591438233
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (914 download)
Download or read book Meditations with the Lakota written by Paul Steinmetz and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-04-01 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • Native American meditations that help the reader find spirit in everyday life. • Intimate meditations offer insight into the symbology of the Lakota religious experience. • Lakota elders present the ancient prayers that weave together psyche and spirit. • New Edition of Meditations with Native Americans. The Lakota, people of the sacred buttes of the Black Hills, hold a rich tradition that connects the world of visible creation to the world of spirit. A century after the battle at Wounded Knee, Lakota elders are beginning to speak their belief that this spirituality is indigenous to every man and woman. By inviting all nations to recognize their interdependence with one another and with the earth, Native Americans can help modern man and woman find a personal relationship with nature and a willingness to view creation as sacred. Many feel that this spirituality is not a luxury but a necessity. From impressions and teachings gathered over decades of living with the Oglala Sioux and participating in their ceremonies, author Paul Steinmetz has compiled a book of provocative meditations centered on creation spirituality. Lakota elders join the author in evoking the essence of the sweat lodge ceremony, the vision quest, yuwipi meetings, and the teachings of Buffalo Calf Woman and the sacred pipe, offering the reader a focus for prayerful intention in finding spirit in everyday life. This insider's view reveals the Lakotas' profound interconnectedness with all matter, a weaving of psyche and spirit that is the call to consciousness so crucial at this time.
Author : Howard P. Bad Hand
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN 13 : 9780658007279
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (72 download)
Download or read book Native American Healing written by Howard P. Bad Hand and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2001-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Native American Healing "introduces readers to the healing modalities and rituals arising from the traditions of the Lakota Sioux, grounded in concepts of harmony and oneness with the Earth.
Author : Doug Good Feather
Publisher : Hay House, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1401956173
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Think Indigenous written by Doug Good Feather and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to integrating indigenous thinking into modern life for a more interconnected and spiritual relationship with our fellow beings, Mother Earth, and the natural ways of the universe. There is a natural law—a spiritual intelligence that we are all born with that lies within our hearts. Lakota spiritual leader Doug Good Feather shares the authentic knowledge that has been handed down through the Lakota generations to help you make and recognize this divine connection, centered around the Seven Sacred Directions in the Hoop of Life: Wiyóhinyanpata—East: New Beginnings Itókagata—South: The Breath of Life Wiyóhpeyata—West: The Healing Powers Wazíyata—North: Earth Medicine Wankátakáb—Above: The Great Mystery Khúta—Below: The Source of Life Hóchoka—Center: The Center of Life Once you begin to understand and recognize these strands, you can integrate them into modern life through the Threefold Path: The Way of the Seven Generations—Conscious living The Way of the Buffalo—Mindful consumption The Way of the Community—Collective impact
Author : Sheila Renee Simons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Healing Among the Lakota Sioux written by Sheila Renee Simons and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas H. Lewis
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803279391
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (793 download)
Download or read book The Medicine Men written by Thomas H. Lewis and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1992-03-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the residents of the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota, mainstream medical care is often supplemented or replaced by a host of traditional practices: theøSun Dance, the yuwipi sing, the heyok?a ceremony, herbalism, the Sioux Religion, the peyotism of the Native American Church, and other medicines, or sources of healing. Thomas H. Lewis, a psychiatrist and medical anthropologist, describes those practices as he encountered them in the late 1960s and early 1970s. During many months he studied with leading practitioners. He describes the healers?their techniques, personal histories and qualities, the problems addressed and results obtained?and examines past as well as present practices. The result is an engrossing account that may profoundly affect the way readers view the dynamics of therapy for mind and body.
Author : Laura Gaccione
Publisher : Barrytown Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781886449664
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (496 download)
Download or read book Lakota Healing written by Laura Gaccione and published by Barrytown Limited. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary story of how HIV positive, Italian-born author/photographer Marco Ridomi undertakes a search for healing and spiritual transformation, culminating in a Lakota Sioux healing ceremony and vision quest at the Pine Hill Reservation in South Dakota. Filled with powerful photographs, the book is dedicated by the author to the Lakota people in appreciation of their warmth and wisdom. 45 photos.
Author : Guy Gibbon
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470754958
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (77 download)
Download or read book The Sioux written by Guy Gibbon and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers the entire historical range of the Sioux, from their emergence as an identifiable group in late prehistory to the year 2000. The author has studied the material remains of the Sioux for many years. His expertise combined with his informative and engaging writing style and numerous photographs create a compelling and indispensable book. A leading expert discusses and analyzes the Sioux people with rigorous scholarship and remarkably clear writing. Raises questions about Sioux history while synthesizing the historical and anthropological research over a wide scope of issues and periods. Provides historical sketches, topical debates, and imaginary reconstructions to engage the reader in a deeper thinking about the Sioux. Includes dozens of photographs, comprehensive endnotes and further reading lists.
Author : Clifford E. Trafzer
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816537429
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)
Download or read book American Indian Medicine Ways written by Clifford E. Trafzer and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indigenous people of wisdom have offered prayers of power, protection, and healing since the dawn of time. From Wovoka, the Ghost Dance prophet, to contemporary healer Kenneth Coosewoon, medicine people have called on the spiritual world to help humans in their relationships with each other and the natural world. Many American Indians—past and present—have had the ability to use power to access wisdom, knowledge, and spiritual understanding. This groundbreaking collection provides fascinating stories of wisdom, spiritual power, and forces within tribal communities that have influenced the past and may influence the future. Through discussions of omens, prophecies, war, peace, ceremony, ritual, and cultural items such as masks, prayer sticks, sweat lodges, and peyote, this volume offers examples of the ways in which Native American beliefs in spirits have been and remain a fundamental aspect of history and culture. Drawing from written and oral sources, the book offers readers a greater understanding of creation narratives, oral histories, and songs that speak of healers, spirits, and power from tribes across the North American continent. American Indian medicine ways and spiritual power remain vital today. With the help of spirits, people can heal the sick, protect communities from natural disasters, and mediate power of many kinds between the spiritual and corporeal worlds. As the contributors to this volume illustrate, healers are the connective cloth between the ancient past and the present, and their influence is significant for future generations. CONTRIBUTORS R. David Edmunds Joseph B. Herring Benjamin Jenkins Troy R. Johnson Michelle Lorimer L. G. Moses Richard D. Scheuerman Al Logan Slagle Clifford E. Trafzer
Author : Judy Binda
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1462027849
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (62 download)
Download or read book The Renaissance of Native Spirituality written by Judy Binda and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on her personal search for lifes meaning, Judy Bindas anthropological research on spirituality led her to write this ethnography. Without Gods presence in her life, she would never have been able to overcome the many challenges she faced in her dual journey to grow both as a human being and a spiritual being. In the first part of this work, through her encounters, Judy learns that her own spiritual path was mirrored in that of her contributors. She engages her applied research in the second part of her study in integrating traditional medicine and healers into Western clinics, in order to find solutions to improve the wellness of people and encourage Native spiritualism as a way of life. These ethnographic studiesconducted with those who walk their Native spiritual journey as spiritual seekers and the traditional medicine people and healers who have the ability to heal through spiritual guidance, traditional practices, and medicinesoffer richness and benefits for those seeking different paths to wellness.
Author : Ethan Nebelkopf
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
ISBN 13 : 0759115397
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (591 download)
Download or read book Healing and Mental Health for Native Americans written by Ethan Nebelkopf and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2004-08-27 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Substance abuse, mental illness, and violence are a self-perpetuating vicious cycle in many Native American communities. In this book, the authors highlight the importance of eliminating health disparities and increasing the access of Native Americans to critical substance abuse and mental health services. Dedicated educators, researchers, and clinicians in the Native community demonstrate how practitioners can work within both the walls of western medicine and the circles of traditional healers, and promote healing through changes in the way we treat our sick_spiritually, traditionally, ceremonially, and scientifically_whether in rural areas, on reservations, or in cities. They emphasize the importance of non-profit community-based health organizations as nodes for community interaction and sources of mental health services for Native Americans in multi-tribal, multi-ethnic, and multi-racial urban areas. This excellent collection will be invaluable for medical and mental health professionals and the Native health community.
Author : Suzanne Crawford O'Brien
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496209060
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)
Download or read book Coming Full Circle written by Suzanne Crawford O'Brien and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-02-17 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coming Full Circle is an interdisciplinary exploration of the relationships between spirituality and health in several contemporary Coast Salish and Chinook communities in western Washington from 1805 to 2005. Suzanne Crawford O'Brien examines how these communities define what it means to be healthy, and how recent tribal community-based health programs have applied this understanding to their missions and activities. She also explores how contemporary definitions, goals, and activities relating to health and healing are informed by Coast Salish history and also by indigenous spiritual views of the body, which are based on an understanding of the relationship between self, ecology, and community. Coming Full Circle draws on a historical framework in reflecting on contemporary tribal health-care efforts and the ways in which they engage indigenous healing traditions alongside twenty-first-century biomedicine. The book makes a strong case for the current shift toward tribally controlled care, arguing that local, culturally distinct ways of healing and understanding illness must be a part of contemporary Native healthcare. Combining in-depth archival research, extensive ethnographic participant-based field work, and skillful scholarship on theories of religion and embodiment, Crawford O'Brien offers an original and masterful analysis of contemporary Native Americans and their worldviews.
Author : Ron Zeilinger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Sacred Ground written by Ron Zeilinger and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The longer the author worked at St. Joseph's Indian School, the more he felt that he could do something in partnership with the Lakota children and staff to remedy the way in which the church had deprived the Lakota in the past of their own culture. As he was walking along and thinking about the Last Supper at which Jesus was telling the apostles: "Do this in memory of me." He was telling them to remember what He was going to suffer on behalf of all people throughout history and to remember this in all times and places--all cultures. Just then something made him look up to the sky and above him circling around were twelve eagles. Standing in amazement, and knowing that he must not hesitate because of fear or criticism to welcome the Lakota culture into the religious instructions and worship services at the school. The "Sacred Ground" is a sensitive collation of Lakota culture and spirituality with that of the Holy Bible. Dignity and meaning is given to the so often misunderstood customs and practices of the Indian people. The book explains how the religious beliefs of the Sioux and Christian faith go hand in hand with one another.
Author : Howard Bad Hand
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780971865839
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (658 download)
Download or read book Native American Healing written by Howard Bad Hand and published by . This book was released on 2009-04-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Njoki Nathani Wane
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030253201
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Decolonizing the Spirit in Education and Beyond written by Njoki Nathani Wane and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-12-14 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This multidisciplinary collection probes ways in which emerging and established scholars perceive and theorize decolonization and resistance in their own fields of work, from education to political and social studies, to psychology, medicine, and beyond. In this time of renewed global spiritual awakening, indigenous communities are revisiting ways of knowing and evoking theories of resistance informed by communal theories of solidarity. Using an intersectional lens, chapter authors present or imagine modes of solidarity, resistance, and political action that subvert colonial and neocolonial formations. Placing emphasis on the importance of theorizing the spirit, a discourse that is deeply embedded in our unique cultures and ancestries, this book is able to capture and better understand these moments and processes of spiritual emergence/re-emergence.
