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Plants of power : Native American ceremony and the use of sacred plants / Alfred Savinelli.

Savinelli, Alfred, 1953- (Author).

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  • ISBN: 1570671303 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 9781570671302 (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: 128 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
  • Publisher: Summertown, Tenn. : Native Voices, c2002.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 120-121) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
pt. I. The uses of sacred plants in ceremony -- The ancestors help us to practice -- Prayers for first things -- The birth of things, morning prayers -- First rituals -- Prayers and incense offerings at birth, separation from the mother, baby-naming -- Rites of initiation, rites of passage -- Preparing for womanhood -- Preparing for manhood -- Crying for a vision ceremony -- Sweat lodge ceremony -- The Sun dance -- Rites of last things -- The keeping of the soul rite -- Releasing of the soul rite -- Ceremonies and prayers, the use of cedar and juniper, before bedtime -- The four directions -- Winnebago prayer -- pt. II. The plants -- Incense cedar -- Red cedar -- Copal -- Juniper -- Lavender -- Mugwort -- Osha -- Piñon, nut pine -- White sage -- Desert sage -- Sweet grass -- Ceremonial tobacco -- Red willow bark, red osher dogwood -- Yerba santa.

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Subject:
Indians of North America > Rites and ceremonies.
Indians of North America > Ethnobotany.
Indian cosmology > North America.
Plants > North America > Religious aspects.
Medicinal plants > North America.
Aromatic plants > North America.
Native Americans > Rites and ceremonies.
Native Americans > Ethnobotany.
Cosmology.
Plants > North America > Religious aspects.
Medical botany.
Aromatic plants.
Medicine, Traditional > North America.
Phytotherapy > North America.
Ethnobotany > North America.
Indians, North American > North America.
Plants, Medicinal > North America.
Religion > North America.
Spiritual Therapies > North America.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.

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