Plants of power : Native American ceremony and the use of sacred plants

Savinelli, Alfred 1953- (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 1570671303 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9781570671302 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
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.