Record details

• 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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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.
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Medical botany.
Aromatic plants.
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Plants, Medicinal > North America.
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