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The reluctant pilgrim : a skeptic's journey into native mysteries /

"Forty years ago, while paging through a book sent as an unexpected gift from a friend, Roger Welsch came across a curious reference to stones that were round, "like the sun and moon." According to Tatonka-ohitka, Brave Buffalo (Sioux), these stones were sacred. "I make my reques...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Welsch, Roger L.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln ; London : University of Nebraska Press, [2015]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Epigraph
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. A Lesson from Stones
  • 2. Lessons from People Who Know
  • 3. A Lesson from Elders
  • 4. Early Lessons
  • 5. Definitions and Distinctions
  • 6. The Lesson of the Skulls
  • 7. Resistance to the Irresistible
  • 8. The Lesson of the Dolmen
  • 9. A Lesson from the Pipe
  • 10. The Lesson of the Feather
  • 11. The Dubious Eye of Coyote
  • 12. A Lesson from Poop
  • 13. The Pilgrim
  • 14. Establishing a Cosmic Buffer Zone
  • 15. A Lesson from Touching the Fire16. Lessons from the Zealot
  • 17. Lessons from Real Shock and Awe
  • 18. Lessons of Hubris
  • 19. Lessons from Mother Corn and Father Buffalo
  • 20. Lessons from the Nahurac
  • 21. Where Lessons Are Lost
  • 22. Lessons of Place
  • 23. Lessons from Lines
  • 24. Lessons from the Fourth Hill
  • 25. Lessons from Lessons
  • 26. Lessons from the Muse
  • 27. Lessons from the Power
  • 28. A Lesson from Prayer
  • 29. Still More Lessons from Lessons
  • 30. Lessons in Brief
  • The Lessons of Others
  • About Roger Welsch