Paula Gunn Allen |
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The Sacred Hoop:
Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions : With a New Preface -
"Informed by a lucid intelligence, wit and warmth, this book brings
to light important information about women's power in American Indian
life" -Louise Erdich
"In these beautifully written essays, Paula Gunn Allen examines
Native American culture, religion and literature by putting women at the
center of the tribal universe ... The Sacred Hoop makes a vital
contribution to the American Indian and feminist scholarship"
-Booklist |
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Grandmothers
of the Light A Medicine Woman's Sourcebook - "Native American goddess traditions come alive in
Paula Gunn Allen's book. The stories of wise women, shaman, and
spirit beings are beautifully told and backed by strong scholarship. In Grandmothers
of the Light, the richness and diversity of a truly polytheistic
culture are illuminated like the many facets of a jewel." - Margot
Adler |
Doug Boyd |
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Rolling Thunder
- Rolling Thunder is an American Indian medicine man - spiritual leader,
philosopher, and acknowledged spokesman for the Cherokee and Shoshone
tribes. As medicine man, or shaman, he is guardian of a wealth of secret
and mysterious knowledge that has been passed down through countless
Indian generations. This knowledge includes the power to cure disease and
heal wounds, to find and use medicinal herbs, to make rain, to perform
exorcisms, to transport objects through the air, to communicate with other
medicine men unaided by technology. These awe-inspiring powers come
out of the medicine man's unique and special relationship with nature,
with what can only be called a "spirit of the earth". |
Joseph Epes Brown |
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The Sacred Pipe
Black Elk's account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux - "This
is a faithful transcription by Mr. Brown of the words of Black Elk, the
last of the Sioux holy men to know his tribe's religious rites, together
with their history and significance...Mr. Brown lived with Black Elk on
the reservation, and the holy man, in order to preserve the Siouan rites
both for the whites and for his own people, told him all he knew of the
rites." --Saturday Review |
Ken Carey |
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Return of the
Bird Tribes - The spirits of the Bird Tribes, America's prehistory inhabitants, explain the"Great Day of Purification", the 24-year earth cycle that began last August and
must cleanse the planet before the actual dawning of the New Age. |
Carlos Castenada |
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Teachings of Don
Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge - In 1960, while waiting for a Greyhound
bus in Arizona, Carlos Castaneda first encountered the man who would
change his life forever - don Juan Matus, a Yaqui Indian shaman from
Sonora, Mexico. A year later, Casteneda - then an anthropology
student researching medicinal plants - again sought out don Juan and began
a formal apprenticeship in the uses of hallucinogenic drugs, Indian
sorcery, and mythology. |
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A Separate
Reality: Further Conversations With Don Juan - The story of Casteneda
and don Juan continues in A Separate Reality, which traces
Castaneda's second cycle of apprenticeship and his attempts to shed his
rational worldview. |
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Tales of Power
- represents the culmination of Castaneda's training. He must confront
a series of dazzling tricks, visions, and lessons in an effort to master
the sorcerer's ways. Though in the end Castaneda finally learns to
"see" don Juan's "separate reality" and to fly on the
wings of his own perception, the completion of his arduous apprenticeship
is not so much a conclusion as a new beginning - an initiation into the
unknown. |
Natalie Curtis |
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Indian's Book
- Native Americans are the true authors of this unique and valuable classic,
The Indian's Book. The art, songs, stories, and legends are their
creations. All these elements, however, were faithfully
transcribed by Natalie Curtis nearly ninety years ago and could not have
been so beautifully and completely realized in this book without her
inspired dedication. She captured the poetic power of their
narratives, which clearly show the Indian to be, as she wrote,
"artistic by nature. His art is not the luxury of the cultured few,
but the unconscious striving of the many to make beautiful things of daily
living". |
Richard Erdoes |
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American Indian
Myths and Legends - "We have nothing more universal that our folk
myths, and in this book Richard Erdoes and Alfonso Ortiz have brought
together what is probably the most comprehensive and diverse collection of
American Indian legends every compiled. It is a worthy and welcome
addition to the literature of our native peoples." -- Dee Brown |
Alice Marriott |
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The Ten
Grandmothers -"A history of the Kiowa tribe and of their
transformation from a nomadic plains tribe to a settled agricultural
people ... told with the stark simplicity and economy of a line of a
Chinese brush-drawing." - Saturday Review of Literature. "The
Ten Grandmothers were sacred 'medicine' bundles, which down through the
Indian generations had grown to be surrounded by a web of legends and
superstitions ... This book has a mighty impact of almost Homeric beauty
and wonder, tragedy and bravery." - Christian Science Monitor |
Kenneth Meadows |
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Earth
Medicine: Revealing Hidden Teachings of the Native American Medicine Wheel -
To Native Americans "medicine" is more than a means for treating illness--medicine is the vitality and power that exists in all of nature. This new
edition of Meadows' bestseller draws on the secret teachings of native shamans
and provides new techniques for tapping your own personal medicine. |
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The Medicine Way:
A Shamanic Path to Self Mastery - To the Native American, the word "medicine" means more than a substance to
restore health. It refers to a vital energy force available to all who call upon
it--and also means "knowledge." This practical handbook of shamanic self-mastery offers a distillation of the ancient shamanic truths of the Native American, blended with wisdom
derived from the East and from Europe. |
Patricia Riley |
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Growing up Native
American - 22 Native American writers, from the nineteenth century to
the 1990s, write in fiction and essay about childhood. Black Elk,
Leslie Marmon Silko, Michael Dorris, Louise Erdrich, N. Scott Momaday,
Linda Hogan, Basil Johnston and many more are featured. |
David Rockwell |
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Giving Voice to
Bear: North American Indian Rituals, Myths, and Images of the Bear -
"... an engrossing and accessible anthropological study... at once
sober and magical. Mr. Rockwell has written a coherent and comprehensible
introduction to tribal attitudes, customs, and rituals. It is a
stirring reminder of what it was like to be alive when being human meant
living intimately with nature." -The New York Times Book Review |
Storm, Hyemeyohsts |
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Song of Heyoekah
- "There are many quiets, but the one that awakens remembrance is by far
the greatest. And so it is with this memory. 'Fire dances among the rocks
like magical rain,' the Shamaness sang, 'And the rain sings the shy
messages hummed by willow reeds every spring. Colors held in the hands of
chieftains, holding silver flower rings...' " |
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Seven Arrows
-" Night Bear hobbled to the tree where Hawk was still tied. Hawk
was slumped over almost on his knees. His tied hands were the only thing
that had held him from falling completely forward onto his face. Hawk's
shield lay a few feet from him, partially in the creek. The Blue Thunder
Eagle on its face appeared to have a source of light within it, as it
caught the reflection of the night's bright full moon. Night Bear picked
up the Shield. The Shield seemed to pull the grief from deep inside him,
releasing all his pain. He stood, holding the Shield, and wept.
" Learn about the plains Indian lifestyle through their
rich and beautiful stories. |
Frank Waters |
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The Book of the
Hopi - is unquestionably the best book ever published about the history,
mythology and rituals of the Hopi Indians of the American Southwest.
To Frank Waters the thirty-two Hopi elders told for the first time their
legends, the meaning of their religious rituals and annual ceremonies, and
their deeply rooted view of the world. The result is a beautiful and
moving book, an important landmark in anthropology which brings to life
again an Indian tribal culture now almost completely destroyed. |
Nancy Wood |
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Many Winters:
Prose and Poetry of the Pueblos - The native Americans of Taos Pueblo have lived in the Rio Grand Valley of New Mexico for over 800
years. Thier unique vision
of the world, their deeply rooted attachment to their land, and their own way of life, and the
quiet wisdom of their old people are eloquently recorded in this illustrated volume of
poetry and prose.
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