This text describes the lives of 16 men and women who acted as guides and interpreters for explorers, missionaries, and anthropologists. It includes Dona Marina, who interpreted for Cortes, Sacajawea, who travelled with Lewis and Clark, and Charles Eastman, Sioux physician at Wounded Knee.
The colorful handmade costumes of beads and feathers swirl frenetically, as the Mardi Gras Indians dance through the streets of New Orleans in remembrance of a widely disputed cultural heritage. Iroquois Indians visit London in the early part of the eighteenth century and give birth to the "feathered people" in the British popular imagination. ...
In a stunning narration of reflection, revelation, and epiphany, the authors of "Wisdomkeepers" take readers on a dramatic and mystical "spirit-journey" into the living wisdom of Native America's spiritual elders. 40 photos.
In this classic account of the religion of the American Indians north of the Rio Grande, Ruth Underhill examines religious behavior and belief and the ways in which these are adapted to various Indian lifeways throughout the continent. Focusing on Indian religious ceremonies, she specifies the different spiritual needs of big game hunters, seed ...
In this in-depth exploration of the symbols found in Navaho legend and ritual, Gladys Reichard discusses the attitude to the tribe members toward their place in the universe, their obligation toward humankind and their gods, and their conception of the supernatural.
Since the 1800s, many European Americans have relied on Native Americans as models for their own national, racial, and gender identities. Displays of this impulse include world's fairs, fraternal organizations, and films such as Dances with Wolves. Shari M. Huhndorf uses cultural artifacts such as these to examine the phenomenon of "going native", ...
"Has a many-sided appeal...This stimulating book is one of the few that really deserve the over-worked term, a human document." - "Publishers Weekly." In an earlier book, "Indian Boyhood", Charles Alexander Eastman (Ohiyesa) recounted the story of his traditional Sioux Childhood and youth. "From the Deep Woods to Civilization", first published in ...
This compelling account of the effect of technology and development on indigenous peoples throughout the world examines major issues of intervention: social engineering, economic development, self-determination, health and disease, and ecocide. "Victims of Progress" provides a provocative context in which to think about civilization and its costs.
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, ...
In more than a dozen novels set in the American Southwest, Tony Hillerman's heroes, Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee, travel the mountains, deserts, and towns of the Four Corners tracking wrongdoers. In
From the Tlingit of Alaska to the Miccosukee in Florida, Cates--who has been going to Indian Country since she was a child--has traveled around the country photographing the people of many different tribes and nations and the lands in which they live. Color and b&w photos throughout.
Joseph Rael (Beautiful Painted Arrow) combines the sacred teachings imparted to him while growing up at Picuris Pueblo with knowledge learned during his years of contact with the mainstream culture. Since childhood, Rael has been interested in sound, and here he describes how he began tracking sound in his native Tiwa language, and later in ...
For thousands of years, Native medicine was the "only" medicine on the North American continent. It is America's original holistic medicine, a powerful means of healing the body, balancing the emotions, and renewing the spirit. Medicine men and women prescribe prayers, dances, songs, herbal mixtures, counseling, and many other remedies that help ...
Joseph Nicolars The Life and Traditions of the Red Man tells the story of his people from the first moments of creation to the earliest arrivals and eventual settlement of Europeans. Self-published by Nicolar in 1893, this is one of the few sustained narratives in English composed by a member of an Eastern Algonquian-speaking people. At a time ...
'Grinnell perhaps knew more about Plains Indians and the Indian wars than any non-military white man of his time. He knew many of the Cheyenne and Pawnee warriors...Because so much of this volume is based on material gathered directly from participants, including Pawnees as well as the Norths, it is an important source that can be enjoyed by ...
Thomas E. Mails draws upon his extensive knowledge of Native American history and ceremony to present ways of applying Native teachings to today's lifestyles.
Renowned Native American expert Thomas E. Mails was chosen by the last surviving Elders of Hotevilla -- a tiny village on a remote Hopi reservation in Arizona -- to reveal to the outside world the secrets and prophecies of a thousand-year-old sacred Hopi covenant created to ensure the well-being of the earth and its creatures. The Hopi Survival ...
On a crisp fall morning, with only a backpack and walking stick, Jerry Ellis set off on an adventure he knew might prove too great a challenge for a solitary man: He would walk the 900-mile Trail of Tears, a journey his Cherokee ancestors had made more than a century earlier. Here he reveals how the tragic history of the Cherokee survives in the ...
'This meticulous study, with its interpretive themes, represents a major contribution to Iroquois historiography. It fills a gap in the literature, addresses important issues, and has the further advantage of presenting the Indian perspective' - "Journal of American History". 'Aquila's work does for the eighteenth century much of what George Hunt ...
An introduction to the Native American world of spiritual discipline, inviting the reader to practice meditation and journal-keeping, and to open the spirit, balance the emotions, get in touch with the body, open the mind and explore creativity, through the quest for the whole self.
Gabriel Horn presents a tapestry of stories, poems, prayers, and love songs describing sacred Native American ways of life and what the varied Native traditions and practices can offer all spiritual seekers. Filled with striking original art, the book conveys through its narrative and through instruction how to prepare for and conduct a variety of ...
'Billy Frank, Jr., has been celebrated as a visionary, but if we go deeper and truer, we learn that he is best understood as a plainspoken bearer of traditions, a messenger, passing along messages from his father, from his grandfather, from those further back, from all Indian people, really. They are messages about the natural world, about ...
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