American Indian Medicine Ways : Spiritual Power, Prophets, and Healing /

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"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 an...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Trafzer, Clifford E. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tucson, Arizona : The University of Arizona Press, [2017]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Indians of North America > Religion.
Indians of North America > Medicine.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
RELIGION > Ethnic & Tribal.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Spirits, landscape, and power: ways of Quechan, Navajo, and Apache / Clifford E. Trafzer and Benjamin Jenkins
  • Main Poc: Potawatomi Wabeno / R. David Edmunds
  • Kenekuk, the Kickapoo prophet / Joseph B. Herring
  • Masking and effigy in the northeastern woodlands / Troy R. Johnson
  • Spiritual traditions of the Great Plains / Troy R. Johnson
  • Smohalla, Washani, and seven drums: religious traditions of the northwest plateau / Clifford E. Trafzer and Richard D. Scheuerman
  • Tolowa Indian shakers: the role of prophecy at Smith River, California / Al Logan Slagle
  • "The father tells me so!": Wovoka, the Ghost Dance Prophet / L.G. Moses
  • California Indian women, wisdom, and preservation / Michelle Lorimer and Clifford E. Trafzer
  • Coosewoon: visions, medicine, and sweat lodge / Clifford E. Trafzer.

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