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Download or read book Fools Crow written by Fools Crow and published by Council Oak Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank Fools Crow, Ceremonial Chief of the Teton Sioux, is regarded by many to be the greateset Native American holy person since 1900. Nephew of Black Elk, and a disciplined, spiritual and political leader, Fools Crow died in 1989 at the age of 99. This volume reveals his philosophy and practice.
Book Synopsis The Lakota Ritual of the Sweat Lodge by : Raymond A. Bucko
Download or read book The Lakota Ritual of the Sweat Lodge written by Raymond A. Bucko and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1998-04-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, a persistent and important component of Lakota religious life has been the Inipi, the ritual of the sweat lodge. The sweat lodge has changed little in appearance since its first recorded description in the late seventeenth century. The ritual itself consists of songs, prayers, and other actions conducted in a tightly enclosed, dark, and extremely hot environment. Participants who “sweat” together experience moral strengthening, physical healing, and the renewal of social and cultural bonds. Today, the sweat lodge ritual continues to be a vital part of Lakota religion. It has also been open to use, often controversial, by non-Indians. The ritual has recently become popular among Lakotas recovering from alcohol and drug addiction. This study is the first in-depth look at the history and significance of the Lakota sweat lodge. Bringing together data culled from historical sources and fieldwork on Pine Ridge Reservation, Raymond A. Bucko provides a detailed discussion of continuity and changes in the “sweat” ritual over time. He offers convincing explanations for the longevity of the ceremony and its continuing popularity.
Download or read book Sundancing written by Thomas E. Mails and published by Council Oak Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To the Plains Indians, the Sun Dance has traditionally been a profound religious ceremony, the highest form of worship of the Most Holy One. Thomas E. Mails was invited to attend and record in detail the Sioux Sun Dances at Rosebud and Pine Ridge. This was a singular honor no white man has been accorded before or since. The result is this groundbreaking work, illustrated with rare photographs and stunning four-color paintings.
Book Synopsis Living Sideways by : Franchot Ballinger
Download or read book Living Sideways written by Franchot Ballinger and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2006-08-31 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Native American tricksters can be buffoons, transformers, social critics, teachers, and mediators between human beings, nature, and the gods. A vibrant part of American Indian tradition, the trickster has shown a remarkable ability to adapt into the twenty-first century. In Living Sideways, Franchot Ballinger provides the first full-length study of the diverse roles and dimensions of North American Indian tricksters. While honoring their diversity and complexity, he challenges stereotypical Euro-American treatments of tricksters. Drawing from the most influential scholarship on Native American tricksters, Ballinger shows how many critics have failed to consider both the specifics of trickster stories and their cultural contexts. Each chapter concentrates on a particular aspect of the trickster theme, such as the trickster’s ambiguous personality, the variety of trickster roles, and the trickster’s role as social critic. Ballinger further considers issues of sex, gender, and humor, the use of trickster tales as instructions on social values and community control, and the trickster as an emblem of modern Indian survival. Living Sideways also includes illustrative trickster stories at the end of each chapter, a comprehensive bibliography, and discussion of the literary aspects of tricksters. Examining both the sacred power of tricksters and the stories as literature, Living Sideways is the most thorough book to date on Native American tricksters.
Book Synopsis The Complete Idiot's Guide to Shamanism by : Gini Graham Scott
Download or read book The Complete Idiot's Guide to Shamanism written by Gini Graham Scott and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You’re no idiot, of course. You know that shamans are also known as medicine men and women, who use the power of the mind and call on spiritual helpers to heal the afflicted. However, this ancient art has been put to more modern uses, including problem solving, empowerment, and personal mastery. But you don’t have to trek through steamy Amazonian jungles or frigid Siberian tundra to become enlightened in the ways of shamanism! The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to Shamanism will show exactly how to discover your own shamanic power—and how that power will guide you in your everyday life! In this Complete Idiot’s Guide®, you get: --Shamanic history—from its origins in Paleolithic times to its spreading influence today. --Power animals—where to locate them and how they communicate with you. --How to take a shamanic journey—traveling through the Lower, Upper, and Middle Worlds, and exploring your past or future. --Shamanic healing techniques in use with modern medicine.
Download or read book Black Elk written by Wallace H. Black Elk and published by Harper San Francisco. This book was released on 1990 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The spiritual grandson of the great shaman of Black Elk Speaks, Wallace BlackElk explains the mystery and ritual of the sacred pipe.
Download or read book Shemsu-Hor written by Edouard Ponist and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2021-11-22 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shemsu Hor, the Followers of Horus is a journey taking us in Ancient Egypt and the Hopi Nation. Two cultures separated by thousands of miles yet both have similar connections from the deep past regarding spiritual burial practices and reeds. Reeds are central connecting both cultures, reeds which were used to construct the first temple is Ancient Egypt and the reed depicted in the emergence story of the Hopi from the third to the fourth world. The first mound of the Ancient Egyptian temple and the sand ridge of Hopi ceremonial practice in their Kivas is explored and more including DNA. The journey then takes us to the here and now, how the Shemsu Hor have planted clues in stone for us to decipher regarding events unfolding today. Perhaps, we are not alone as well on our journey as human beings.
Book Synopsis Twin Memoirs Volume 1 by : Robert W. Parsons
Download or read book Twin Memoirs Volume 1 written by Robert W. Parsons and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-11-06 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you know your ancestry; your parents, grandparents, great grandparents and great-great grandparents? Have you taken the time to document your life since the day of your birth? I do and I did. In Volume 1, I'll take you back to the old countries of France and Italy where my story begins with my great-great grandparents. Their off-spring came to America, the first generation of Americans. I'll guide you through the second generation who gave birth to our parents, the third gene
Download or read book Leaving Shadows written by Lisa Grekul and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2005-12-16 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "On our way home, we stopped in Vegreville for one last look at the Pysanka-and, posing in front of it while my dad pulled out his camera, I wanted to cry. Are we doomed? Click. Is this all we are? Click. How do we drag ourselves out from under the shadow of the giant egg? Click." Conceived in a fervent desire for fresher, sexier images of Ukrainian culture in Canada, and concluding with a new reading of enduring cultural stereotypes, Leaving Shadows is the first Canadian book-length monograph on English Ukrainian writing, with substantive analysis of the writing of Myrna Kostash, Andrew Suknaski, George Ryga, Janice Kulyk Keefer, Vera Lysenko, and Maara Haas.
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of Native American Healing by : William S. Lyon
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Native American Healing written by William S. Lyon and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1998 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed for ease of use with maps, a detailed subject index, an extensive bibliography, and cross references, this book is sure to fascinate anyone interested in Native American culture and heritage.
Book Synopsis Indigenous Peoples' Wisdom and Power by : Julian E Kunnie
Download or read book Indigenous Peoples' Wisdom and Power written by Julian E Kunnie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capturing the narratives of indigenes, this book presents a unique anthology on global Indigenous peoples' wisdoms and ways of knowing. Covering issues of religion, cultural self-determination, philosophy, spirituality, sacred sites, oppression, gender and the suppressed voices of women, the diverse global contexts across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, North and South America, and Oceania are highlighted. The contributions represent heart-felt expressions of Indigenous peoples from various contexts - their triumphs and struggles, their gains and losses, their reflections on the past, present, and future - telling their accounts in their own voices. Opening new vistas for understanding historical ancient knowledge, preserved and practiced by Indigenous people for millennia, this innovative anthology illuminates areas of philosophy, science, medicine, health, architecture, and botany to reveal knowledge suppressed by Western academic studies.
Book Synopsis The Woodstock Bridge by : Gregory Drambour
Download or read book The Woodstock Bridge written by Gregory Drambour and published by Sacred Bear Press. This book was released on 2018-10-25 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lost soul. A man desperate for meaning. Can he discover his inner Warrior and unleash the power to change? “A marvelous adventure! I recommend it highly!” —Richard Carlson, author of Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff Two decades after the heady 60s, John struggles to make sense of his life. With fading optimism, he’s unsure if he can ever make a difference in the world. But crossing paths with a Sioux warrior gives him another chance for mentorship and wisdom. As John learns to confront his fears, can he find the passion that makes life worth living? Seasoned spiritual teacher and master shamanic healer Gregory Drambour has guided over 12,000 clients to a better understanding of the Warrior’s Path. In The Woodstock Bridge: A Journey To Discover Your Spirit, he shares his hard-earned Native American wisdom to help guide you toward hope. Through simple yet powerful truths, you’ll discover how to lead your spirit toward fulfillment. The Woodstock Bridge is an insightful and educational tale of spiritual empowerment. If you like intuitive teaching, inspiring stories, and expert guidance, then you’ll love Gregory Drambour’s catalyst for change. Buy The Woodstock Bridge to reconnect with your inner warrior!
Book Synopsis The Eighth Arrow: Wisdom and Storytelling from Tennessee's Tihanama People by : Donald N. Panther-Yates
Download or read book The Eighth Arrow: Wisdom and Storytelling from Tennessee's Tihanama People written by Donald N. Panther-Yates and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-11-12 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the last migratory American Indian tribes, the Tihanama people of Tennessee ranged from the Great Lakes to the Florida Panhandle. Other Southeastern peoples called them the Big Medicine tribe. They were known for their legends, antiquity, trail markings, knowledge of herbs, funeral ceremonies, songs, paints and dyes. This collection by Donald Panther-Yates is as unique as its subject-there is no other like it. The Eighth Arrow story will completely alter your understanding of Native American spirituality. It may change your life.
Book Synopsis Native American Stories by : Joseph Bruchac
Download or read book Native American Stories written by Joseph Bruchac and published by Fulcrum Publishing. This book was released on 1991 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of Native American tales and myths focusing on the relationship between man and nature.
Book Synopsis Good Friday on the Rez by : David Bunnell
Download or read book Good Friday on the Rez written by David Bunnell and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Bunnell introduces readers to the places and people that he encounters during his one day, 280-mile road trip from his boyhood Nebraska hometown to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation to visit his longtime friend, Vernell White Thunder, a full-blooded Oglala Lakota, descendant of a long line of prominent chiefs and medicine men. Bunnell also shares treasured memories of his time living on and teaching at the reservation, exposing the difficult life and experiences faced by the descendants of Crazy Horse, Red Cloud, and Sitting Bull while illuminating their courageous resiliency. During the violent 70s, he met Russell Means and smuggled food to radical Indians at Wounded Knee. Peppered with Vernell White Thunder's own stories of growing up in a one-room log house with his medicine man grandfather, Bunnell begs the reader to join in on the poignant conversations about present-day Native Americans.
Book Synopsis Two Ravens by : Louis Two Ravens Irwin
Download or read book Two Ravens written by Louis Two Ravens Irwin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1996-09-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of a remarkable Native American who through his own life struggles learned to unite the paths of warrior and healer. Two Ravens was taught the traditional healing ways of his Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arickara people by his grandfather, knowledge which served him well in his dealings with the hostile white society he later encountered. After years of rampant discrimination and racism, he became a warrior in the fight for the rights of his people He joined the efforts of Leonard Peltier, Leonard Crow Dog, Frank Clearwater, and many other prominent leaders to ensure that his people might live in peace and with respect. But the constant battles often left Two Ravens censured both by fellow Native Americans who supported a more conservative political agenda and white law enforcement agencies who considered him an outlaw. Pulled between different worlds, he struggled against alcoholism and despair. It was only when he returned to his grandfather's teachings that he discovered a way to join the paths of the warrior and the healer. In the years before his death, Two Ravens worked as a substance abuse counselor and spiritual advisor, helping others integrate Native American traditions into their lives in contemporary America. Offers personal insights from a Native American who worked with the American Indian Movement from its inception
Book Synopsis Confronting the AIDS Epidemic by : Davidson Chukwuma Umeh
Download or read book Confronting the AIDS Epidemic written by Davidson Chukwuma Umeh and published by Africa World Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Several socio-economic, ethical, legal, political and cultural issues have arisen because of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. This anthology discusses the cultural ramifications that undermine HIV/AIDS education through the contributions of the following scholars: Caroline Blair, David Ojakaa, S.A. Ochola, Dishon Gogi, Marietta Federici-LaFarge, Frank Machlica, Davidson C. Umeh, Gerjo Kok, Harm J. Hospers, John B.F. De Wit, Lynn Morrison, Sepali Guruge, Kabahenda Nyakabwa, Jerome Okafor, Tim Rodgers, Howard Stevenson, Helen M. Rupp, Minakshi Tikoo, Charles B.U. Uwakwe, Ralph DiClemente, Gina M. Wingood, Nora K. Bell, Ifeanyi Emenike and Gust A. Yep. They discussed cultural implications and specific HIV / AIDS education strategies for women, men, adolescents, gays, people living with HIV/AIDS in the following communities: American-Indian, African-American, Asian-American, White-American, Kenyan, Ugandan, Nigerian, Indian, Dutch and athletes. This book will be of great significance to students and scholars in anthropology, medicine, nursing, psychology, health, education, sociology, and women's studies. The authors provide much insight into community dynamics, social relationships and group norms which are important in the development of effective education programs for HIV/AIDS.
