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• ISBN: 0275990974 (alk. paper)
• ISBN: 9780275990978 (alk. paper)
• Physical Description: xv, 189 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
• Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2007.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-182) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

pt. I. General considerations -- 1. Introduction -- Prelude -- Dancing for life -- Native North American religious traditions -- Common features -- The number four -- Reciprocity -- Tobacco and other sacred herbs -- Experiential religion -- Western perceptions -- No religion : the heathen savage -- Animism, totemism and other nineteenth-century fallacies -- The Noble savage -- New age hucksters -- Further considerations -- Esotericism -- Suppression and secrecy -- "Stealing religion" -- Avoidance of photographs and recordings -- 2. From past to present -- Native traditions before contact -- North and Northeast -- Great Lakes and Midwest -- Southeast and Mississippi and Ohio River basins -- Mississippi and Ohio River basins -- Plains and plateau -- Northwest coast -- Southwest, Great Basin and Southern California -- Far South and Caribbean -- From contact to reservations -- Reservations and enforced Christian conversion -- Revitalization of Native traditions -- 3. Theology -- Cosmogony and the influence of Christianity -- The environment as numinous -- Ancestral and other spirits of the dead -- Culture heroes and "tricksters" --

pt. II. Ceremonies from a variety of traditions -- 4. Great Lakes and Northeast -- Anishnabe religion : modernization of gathering-hunting spirituality -- The Haudenausaunee : from horticulture-hunting to agriculture -- 5. Southwest and Southeast -- Diné Menarche rituals : celebrating female spiritual power -- Navajo Kinaaldá -- Apache Sunset Dance -- Muskogee Green Corn Ceremony : continuing an agricultural tradition -- 6. Plains -- Missouri basin horticultural-hunting complex : twinning corn and bison -- Nitsitapi Bundle Ceremonies : the effects of horse Nomadism -- 7. Northwest coast -- Potlatch : religious heart of coastal traditions -- Makah whale hunt : continuing persecution of Native religion -- 8. Pan-Indian rituals -- Circumpolar rituals -- Spirit ("sweat") lodge -- Binding rituals : "shaking tent" and Yuwipi -- Regional Pan-Indian rituals -- Thirst ("Sun") Dance -- Dance drums and the powwow -- The sacred pipe : ritual of adoption -- Native American church (Peyote religion).

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Indians of North America > Religion.
Indian cosmology > North America.
Indians of North America > Rites and ceremonies.