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Rich with storytelling, history, and folklore, The Lakota Way expresses the heart of Native American philosophy and imparts the path to a fulfilling and meaningful life. Joseph Marshall is a member of the Sicunga Lakota Sioux and has dedicated his entire life to the wisdom he learned from his elders. Here he focuses on the twelve core qualities that are crucial to the Lakota way of living-bravery, fortitude, generosity, wisdom, respect, honor, perseverance, love, humility, sacrifice, truth, and compassion. Whether teaching a lesson on respect imparted by the mythical Deer Woman or the humility embodied by the legendary Lakota leader Crazy Horse, The Lakota Way offers a fresh outlook on spirituality and ethical living.
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pleasant surprise.......2007-09-26
I bought this book at a store in Oklahoma City and it was wrapped in packaging. I had already read three of Marshall's books but when I unwrapped it after buying it, my first reaction was it was a mistake to buy it. It was not what I was expecting. Much to my pleasant surprise, I thoroughly enjoyed Marshall's story telling.
I highly recommend anything he writes. I am currently reading his book on Crazy Horse and it is excellent. His book, "Walking with Grandfather" is outstanding.
Marshall is certainly one of the Elders of his tradition and is an accomplished writer and historian. His works are a must read.
Worth Sharing.......2007-08-25
This book can change you if you are open to it. It made me rethink a few assumptions I had about myself. I think all of us know the dictionary definition of virtues such as generosity and wisdom, but Marshall shares stories and personal insights that teach how to weave those qualities into the fabric of your life. This book is warm-hearted and inspiring. Its organization is well suited for discussion groups. The Lakota Way should be the way of our leaders, neighbors, family members and our hearts.
Re-Read this book.......2006-06-28
The wealth of virtues discussed in this book through the legends of the Lakota tribe are presented in a way that is both entertaining and thought-provoking. A wonderful book that is enjoyable to read, and educational as well. This book now sits on my top shelf, with the few other books that I re-read regularly. This is a place of honor, and speaks to the greatness of Mr. Joseph M. Marshall's explanation of the traditional legends, and their connection to modern life. You don't have to be a Native American to enjoy this book. Read it, and re-read it. See how your personality and character develops into something you never would have imagined!
My review.......2006-03-16
Essential reading for people who practice this spirituality.The author is a great story teller.
Great Book!.......2005-12-20
I live near and work on a reservation in SD. I wanted to read this book to understand the viewpionts my Native American friends better. The way Marshall is able to explain the virtues from a historical, traditional perspective and relate them to modern day is wonderful and easily understood. This is a great book!
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This case study traces the Cheyenne Indians from their first contact with the French explorer LaSalle in 1680. The book then follows their exodus from Minnesota under pressure from the Sioux, Cel, and Ojibwa; their attempt to gain a foothold in eastern South Dakota and the middle Missouri River; and their final movement into the high western plains in the first half of the 19th century.
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Given that the Great Plains long functioned as a stomping ground for the Oglala Sioux, it was inevitable that Ian Frazier would cross paths with them when he wrote his 1989 chronicle of that sublime flatland. But the encounter between the self-confessed "chintzy middle-class white guy" and his Native American counterparts went so swimmingly that Crazy Horse assumed a starring role in the book. Now Frazier continues his cross-cultural romance in On the Rez. This account of the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota is as touching, funny, and maniacally digressive as anything he's written. What's more, he manages to avoid most of the politically correct potholes along the way, producing a vivid, ambivalent (i.e., honest) portrait of a community where the very "landscape is dense with stories."
Much of On the Rez revolves around Le War Lance, whom Frazier first met in Great Plains. This yarn-spinning, beer-swilling figure serves the author as a kind of Native American Virgil, introducing him to the hard facts of reservation life. In fact, their friendship, with its accents of deep affection and dependency, anchors the entire narrative and elicits some typically top-drawer prose:
Le's eyes can be merry and flat as a smile button, or deep and glittering with malice or slyness or something he knows and I never will. He is fifty-seven years old. I have seen his hair, which is black streaked with gray, when it was over two feet long and held with beaded ponytail holders a foot or so apart, and I have seen it much shorter, after he had shaved his head in mourning for a friend who had died.
On the Rez delivers a history of the Oglala nation that spotlights our paleface population in some of its most shameful, backstabbing moments, as well as a quick tour through Indian America. The latter, to be honest, seems a little too conscientiously cooked up from primary sources and news clippings. But elsewhere Frazier is in superb form, reporting everything he sees and hears with enviable clarity and promptly pulling the rug out from under himself whenever he seems too omniscient. Few accounts of reservation life have been this comical; even fewer have moved beyond the poverty and pandemic drunk driving to discern actual, theological wickedness on the premises: "At such moments a sense of compound evil--the evil of the human heart, in league with the original darkness of this wild continent--curls around me like shoots of a fast-growing vine." In the hands of many a writer, the previous sentence might resemble a rhetorical firecracker. In Frazier's, it comes off as a statement of fact--which is only one of the reasons why every American, Native or not, should take a look at this sad, splendid, and surprisingly hopeful book. --James Marcus
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On the Rez is a sharp, unflinching account of the modern-day American Indian experience, especially that of the Oglala Sioux, who now live on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in the plains and badlands of the American West. Crazy Horse, perhaps the greatest Indian war leader of the 1800s, and Black Elk, the holy man whose teachings achieved worldwide renown, were Oglala; in these typically perceptive pages, Frazier seeks out their descendants on Pine Ridge-a/k/a "the rez"-which is one of the poorest places in America today. Along with his longtime friend Le War Lance (whom he first wrote about in his 1989 bestseller, Great Plains) and other Oglala companions, Frazier fully explores the rez as they visit friends and relatives, go to pow-wows and rodeos and package stores, and tinker with a variety of falling-apart cars. He takes us inside the world of the Sioux as few writers ever have, writing with much wit, compassion, and imagination. In the career of SuAnne Big Crow, for example, the most admired Oglala basketball player of all time, who died in a car accident in 1992, Frazier finds a contemporary reemergence of the death-defying, public-spirited Sioux hero who fights with grace and glory to save her followers. On the Rez vividly portrays the survival, through toughness and humor, of a great people whose culture has helped to shape the American identity.
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In Ian Frazier's bestselling Great Plains, he described meeting a man in New York City named Le War Lance, "an Oglala Sioux Indian from Oglala, South Dakota." In On the Rez, Frazier returns to the plains and focuses on a place at their center -- the Pine Ridge Reservation in the prairie and badlands of South Dakota, home of the Oglala Sioux. Frazier drives around "the rez" with Le War Lance and other Oglalas as they tell stories, visit relatives, go to powwows and rodeos and package stores, and try to find parts to fix one or another of their on-the-verge-of-working cars. On the Rez considers Indian ideas of freedom and community and equality that are basic to how we view ourselves, and discusses also the oppressions of history in a place where the per capita income is the nation's lowest. Most of all, he examines the Oglala idea of heroism -- its suffering and its pulse-quickening, public-spirited glory. On the Rez portrays the survival, through toughness and humor, of a great people whose culture has shaped our American identity.
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Torn--Can't put it down, yet author slightly smug ..........2007-07-09
I could NOT put this book down--the people in the book were so intriguing and interesting. I think Frazier is an entertaining writer, but I agree with an earlier reviewer who called him "Smug"--It was like "I'm an important, superior white guy giving my precious time (and sometimes money) to come visit you lowly Indians" type feel .... it was uncomfortable at times. Although, in fairness, there are other times where it feels the Indians are "in on the joke" and take advantage of the author--which is quite funny. One fascinating gentleman (Lance) calls the author an "Indian wanna be" ... that says it all. Regardless, I learned A LOT and was thoroughly entertained and read the book in 2 days. Worth every penny!
The Old Indians, The Now Indians.......2007-03-08
On the Rez by Ian Frazier is easily the most fascinating and readable history of the American Indian, as they existed in the past and how their past has shaped their present. At first their present seems dismal, as Ian Frazier spent several years on and off the Pine Ridge Reservation of South Dakota and shows us the poverty, drunknness and generally confirming every unfortunate stereotype we've come to know. Through the peculiar friendship with an Oglala Sioux named Le War Lance, Ian transports us into the then and now and we realize the absolute power behind what seems destitute poverty. Frazier shows us the wealth of their culture and reminds us how they came to be where they are. Should it be any surprise they have become what the white culture has made them? And yet there is no doubt that they remain who they've always been. Frazier easily weaves in the cultural and political history with the nomadic wanderings of his friend Le who floats in and out of jail, befriends movie stars as easily as buddies down at the bar and survives countless car crashes, only to live to view them as a kind of frighteningly mystical experience. The book is tough and funny -- exactly like the people it portrays.
Could have been much better.......2005-07-27
I first heard about life on the "rez" from some Indian friends in the Army. They told me crazy stories about car accidents, shootings, and drunken brawls that apparently characterized much of the life on the rez. The author, Ian Fraizer, writes a little about these things, so at least that part of it rings true as it confirms what my friends told me.
My complaint about the book is that it is simply boring. It's as if Frazier found the most dull Indians he possibly could and wrote about their everyday lives. My life is dull too, but no one seems to want to write a book about it. The only slightly interesting person is Frazier's so called "friend," Le War Dance, who is a BS artist and asks for a handout everytime the two meet. If one of my "friends" demanded money to be my "friend," I might think twice about having him for a friend, but not Frazier. He seems to enjoy taking up the white man's burden and dispensing cash to his "friends" as if he is single-handedly trying to atone for the way Indians were screwed by us palefaces. Does it ever occur to him that these people are his "friends" because he is a steady source of income? I get the feeling that when Frazier and his Indian "friends" leave each others' company, both of them laugh at the other behind their back thinking how they used them for their own personal gain - Frazier with his book material, and the Indians with some free "beer money."
Frazier's writing often gets bogged down in so many unnecessary details, that I felt like he was trying to extend the manuscript simply to make it book length. I used this technique myself when I was a child in grade school and had to write 100 word essays. I would inevitably use the word "very" to flesh out the paper to the required length - "I enjoy playing baseball very much. It is a very rewarding game to play, etc."
One thing I can't stand about books about Indians is the inevitable word "mystical" that is applied to their lives. They supposedly have this attachment to nature and the spirit world that the rest of us just can't seem to attain, which is a crock. Indians are no more mystical than I am. Whenever somebody dies on the rez, there always seems to have been premonitions or medicine man warnings that their time was up, but strangely, these mystical warnings never save the doomed person. Maybe because it's all lies just like all religions are?
Finally, the only other major story in this book is his adulation and bizarre obsession with a teenage Indian girl who was a popular kid and died young in a car accident. He foolishly believes everything her family and friends say about her and relates her story as fact when it is mostly just made up to make her seem larger than life. Every neighborhood has a popular kid who inspires others, so I don't see why this particular girl had such an impact on Frazier.
Ultimately, this book is not about Indians on the rez, it is about Frazier on the rez, which is not an exciting topic to read about.
Highly recommended account of people, not stereotypes.......2005-07-08
I can't say enough good things about this book. It was wonderful to read as well as haunting me for days afterward.
The "rez" of the title is the Pine Ridge Reservation of the Oglala Sioux. The book deals with the Oglala Sioux both on the rez and in scattered other places, as far away as New York and New Jersey. He includes some history and "historical" characters up through Russell Means and Dennis Banks.
There are two stars in the book: his friend Le War Lance, and the basketball star SuAnne Big Crow. Le is a lovable ne'er-do-well who serves as Frazier's (and our) guide to the Sioux and to Pine Ridge. Big Crow, whom Frazier never met, serves as a background hero and her story an unfolding tragedy.
More than anything, the book is about people and not about having any ideological axe to grind. Many of his acquaintances are alcoholics and/or unemployed. Frazier acknowledges what most people would call both "social forces" and "individual responsibility" in explaining these cliched problems. He also sees the "nobility" and "sense of freedom" that represent more positive cliches, but again he doesn't overemphasize them. In short, he neither whitewashes nor praises effusively, but he is at root simply interested in the experiences of the Oglala people both on and off the reservation. Frazier loves his friends on the reservation but finds some of them frustrating.
Some people might not like the results. For example, many of Frazier's acquaintances hit him up for money; as a result, he always loads up on twenties before visiting Pine Ridge. You might think this is a degrading detail, you might think that Frazier is a smug white man who wants everyone to know of his generosity, or perhaps you'd want him to turn down these requests so as not to compromise a writer's relationship with his subjects. Take your pick. But Frazier's matter-of-fact writing style lets you make up your own mind about him as well as his subjects.
For all its interest, this remains a book written by a white observer; if you'd like an excellent account of Pine Ridge by an insider, read Mary Crow Dog's "Lakota Woman."
Frazier is an very good observer of both detail and personality. Given the rich diversity of any community of people such as Pine Ridge, you feel as if you are riding along in his car, looking over his shoulder. Very highly recommended as a slice of America.
Should Be Titled "Smug White Man Visits the Reservation".......2005-06-08
This book invokes nearly as much disgust in me as the white harvesting crews in the 1980's who boasted of deftly disposing of their American Indian competition with bottles of cheap booze.
I didn't go into reading it with that expectation--Frazier skillfully drug it out of me over the course of a two day reading period, and I can only shake my head in wonderment at the reviewers--undoubtedly white--who give this glorified diary such high praise.
I kept awaiting Frazier to get past the egocentric slant that made nearly the entire book feel like a never-ending "Introduction" to some larger work. This is because Frazier tries to present himself as a benevolent and long suffering friend to a handful of Oglala Sioux; but his constant chronicling of every nickle he spent during the friendship--not to mention focusing on every drunken stagger, or boast; makes him come off as less a true friend than just another white man lookin' to make money off the reservation. (I also find his occasional "my bad" passages to be nothing more than self-serving attempts to deflect potential criticism.)
Where the real meat of the book lies, is in the chapters about SuAnne Big Crow. Frazier should have written a biography of her, instead of indulging himself in most of the other pages.
If you must purchase "On The Rez," might I suggest you check it out from your local library first?
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Know the people as they know themselves........2005-08-14
Karl Schlesier's book is a vital work of scholarship that draws together many views of people in the Plains for many centuries. Plains Indians is a must have for anyone's private collection on human habitation of the Great Plains in the last 2000 years. Students should have access to this scholarly documentation in every library on every campus.
Rarely do archeologists recognize an ethnic identity associated with dig sites that pre-date European occupancy of the Plains. The language links charted in the book are strong indications of the ethnicities present in the Great Plains for millennia.
I use this book every semester to lay the foundation for understanding the diversity of people present in the Plains for hundreds of generations. Plains Indians as edited by Dr. Karl Schlesier is outstanding and indispensable to ethnohistorical studies that recognize the ancestral lands of people living presently in the Great Plains.
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Through the interpretive lens of colonial theory, Jeffrey Ostler presents an original analysis of the tumultuous relationship between the Plains Sioux and the United States in the 1800s. He provides novel insights on well-known aspects of the Sioux story, such as the Oregon Trail, the deaths of "Crazy Horse" and "Sitting Bull", and the Ghost Dance, and offers an in-depth look at many lesser-known facets of Sioux history and culture. Paying close attention to Sioux perspectives of their history, the book demonstrates how the Sioux creatively responded to the challenges of U.S. expansion and domination, revealing simultaneously how U.S. power increasingly limited the autonomy of their communities as the century came to a close. Ostler's innovative analysis of the Plains Sioux culminates in a compelling reinterpretation of the events that led to the Wounded Knee massacre of December 29, 1890. History Department Head at the University of Oregon, Associate Professor Jeffrey Ostler has held honors such as the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship and has published articles in Western Historical Quarterly, Great Plains Quarterly, and Pacific Historical Review.
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A fascinating Castaneda-like spiritual journey into the wilderness of Manitoba, where Lynn Andrews meets Agnes Whistling Elk, the Native American "heyoehkah," or shaman, who will change her life.
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Medicine Woman.......2007-10-02
great book can read it many times and still get a lot from it. L'Ohanna
It may cause you to think & re-think.......2007-05-17
This is my favored book by Andrews, and it is the first in a shelf-load of Andrew's books that kept me up late into the early morning hours, reading and bleary-eyed until I could read no longer. The medicine woman (character) is very believable, and extremely thought provoking. As I read, I was left to wonder if it was fact or fiction.... Either way, it is a gripping story line about personal power.
A gift that changed my life.......2006-12-31
I would love to read actual reviews of books in these sections of Amazon instead of author bashing retorts.
This book was gifted to me as a loaner to read some seven or eight years ago and at that time in my life, it was a great story. I found her other books and tried to read them in the order it seemed they were written and also enjoyed them as good stories...until reading Windhorse Woman!
Wow! now you talk about a tap on the head. I have since gone back and reread Lynn's books and the teachings, hints about reaching within, the lessons I've discovered have changed who I am and how I am in the world.
I will continue to re-read these books until the lessons stop falling off the pages into my lap. Thank you Lynn...for in what ever genre you wrote these, they hold much wisdom for those whose minds and hearts are open to the Teachings you bring us from your associations with the Sisterhood of the Shields. Thank you Agnes and Ruby, Zoila and Ani, and all the rest who have taken the time to guide you through your own lessons.
A considerable talent misused.......2006-12-06
The writer has such talent for making everything truly convincing, that I was very disappointed to realise, as I read, that this was really fiction. Too many inconsistencies and oddities. Kokopelli in Manitoba? boy, he's a long way from home! I've travelled in the South-West and known Navajo people, and Lakotas in South Dakota, and I've lived in Canada, though not Manitoba, and the points made by those who describe that western province are very convincing. No way do Andrews' descriptions ring true.
The clincher was where at the end Andrews is strictly enjoined not to tell anyone of her experiences: she asks "what should I do" and is told "Write a book!" I think Andrews is almost slapping the more gullible readers upside the head!
And it's sad, because on its own terms, it does in some ways convey a quite meaningful view of the world, and encourages us to be open to the deeper meanings and the spiritual connections and resonances of the natural world. So I wish it were a real account, but as it isn't, I have to feel that such transformations of reality must do more harm than good. What happened to a medieval Christian when it was proved that the famous saint's relic everyone had revered was the bone of a dog's hind leg? Didn't it hurt the faith that had sustained him, and damage the good that was in that faith? Other reviewers have mentioned more accurate, reality-based reports of the shaman's world: I'll have to follow some of those up.
Wonderful Medicne For the Soul.......2006-08-10
This book is excellent for the beginner or one who has studied Shamanism. a very griping tale of change, unfoldment, and realization into ones true nature. Charles Lightwalker
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In this fascinating ethnohistorical case study of North American Indians, the Ghost Dance religion is the backbone for Kehoe's exploration of significant aspects of American Indian life and her quest to learn why some theories become popular. In Part 1, she combines knowledge gained from her firsthand experiences living among and speaking with Indian elders with a careful analysis of historical accounts, providing a succinct yet insightful look at people, events, and institutions from the 1800s to the present. She clarifies unique and complex relationships among Indian peoples and dispels many of the false pretenses promoted by United States agencies over two centuries. In Part 2, Kehoe surveys some of the theories used to analyze the events described in Part 1, allowing readers to see how theories develop, to think critically about various perspectives, and to draw their own conclusions. Kehoe's gripping presentation and analysis pave the way for just and constructive Indian-White relations.
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I am ambivalent about this book........2001-08-23
Ms. Kehoe did a good job at tracing the practise of the ghost dance from the time that Wovoka (A Paiute medicine man) was given this ceremony to the masacre by the military at Wounded knee creek South Dakota in 1890 to the second incident at Wounded knee creek in 1973.
For people interested in seeing the ghost dance watch the dance in the movie "Billyjack" after Billyjack goes through the ceremony with the rattlesnake. I have heard that Wovoka's son or son-in-law supervised that scene of the movie.
Basicly the people would dance until they would faint from exhaustion, and while unconscious they would see into the spirit world something similar to an OBE.
On page 62: Ms. Kehoe states that Nick Black Elk (Sioux holy man) was a practising Catholic. It is true that Black Elk went to mass after he married the second time. However; the prayer that Black Elk offered on Harney peak, and is recorded in the book "Black Elk Speaks" John G. Neihardt, it is abundantly clear that his spiritual beliefs in Wakan Tanka (Sioux name for the Great Spirit) never wavered. He may have went along with Catholocism for peace in the family, or to stop the proselytizing church members. I used the same tactic early in life.
Ms. Kehoe; made one statement on page 65 that made me angry! She implies that Nick Black Elk had partial blindess by using gunpowder in his yuwipi healing ceremony to fool the indians into thinking the spirit helpers had arrived by throwing a pinch of gunpowder in the fire.
With my understanding of Sioux spirituality, and the properties of gunpowder. I state categoricaly that this is impossible! 20 years ago; I used gunpowder to reload the cartridges for my high powered rifle.
In the Yuwipi ceremony the indians remove all furniture from the room, and place quilts over the doors and windows to block all light from entering the room, and the wicasa pejuta or wicasa wakan (medicine man or holy man) has his hands tied behind his back with rawhide, and then they usualy wrap him up in a star quilt like a mummy and the quilt is tied around his body. The wicasa pejuta or wicasa wakan is placed on the floor, and the lamp is put out leaving the people in total darkness (there is no fire, and the yuwipi man is tied up in a quilt; making it impossible to use gunpowder in this manner).
Ms. Kehoe may have meant the Inipi (sweat lodge) ceremony so I will describe that to you. A sweat lodge structure is built of saplings or willow limbs, and a large fire is built to heat rocks until they are red hot. While the rocks are heating they dig a hole in the center of the structure to hold the rocks, and the removed dirt is used to build a mound to the east of the structure, then the indians cover the ground with sage, and quilts are put over the structure. Water is poured over the rocks making steam inside the structure. (It would be impossible for Nick Black Elk or any wicasa wakan to use gunpowder on the rocks. Everyone is drenched with steam, and is sweating profusely. Gunpowder will not burn or explode if it gets wet. This is the reason for the saying (keep your powder dry.).)
I am NOT asking you to take my word for any of this. You can read about the Inipi and Yuwipi ceremonies in "Lakota Belief And Ritual" James R. Walker, "The Sacred Pipe" Joseph Epes Brown, "Mother Earth Spirituality" Ed McGaa, and other sources.
I only wish Ms. Kehoe had bothered to properly research material instead of making outrageous statements such as this.
Please send E-Mail if you have questions or comments about this review. Two Bears.
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Revitalization indeed.......2001-01-05
Kehoe's excellent work on the Ghost Dance religion allows the reader to be witness to a textbook example of religious revitalization movements. From the Paiute prophet Wovoka Jack Wilson's revelation during an eclipse to "Live a good, honest life" to the massacre at Wounded Knee, Kehoe describes in detail the history and beliefs of the Ghost Dance and the benefits it provided to the American Indian communities who took it up, as well as the rejection of the Ghost Dance religion by groups like the Navajo. Kehoe further describes the continuance of a variant of the Ghost Dance religion at a reservation in Seskatchewan and talks about the revitalization movement driven by Handsome Lake amongst the Iroquois and how the re-imagining of their beliefs allowed them to become more successful in a radically altered world.
This rather short read by a pre-eminent author on the anthropology of American Indian societies is sure to both educate and provide deep enjoyment to the curious reader.
The essential book for understanding contemporary issues!.......1999-02-28
Anyone interested in North American Indians (Native Americans; First Nations) has to read Alice Beck Kehoe's book. She weaves together the past and present, religion and politics, and creates a book that offers more insight into contemporary issues than any other one ever written. And as a plus--for those interested in mysteries--she explains how the Ghost Dance Religion, thought to have died out in 1890, survived decades into the twentieth century.
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Walking in the Sacred Manner is an exploration of the myths and culture of the Plains Indians, for whom the everyday and the spiritual are intertwined and women play a strong and important role in the spiritual and religious life of the community.
Based on extensive first-person interviews by an established expert on Plains Indian women, Walking in the Sacred Manner is a singular and authentic record of the participation of women in the sacred traditions of Northern Plains tribes, including Lakota, Cheyenne, Crow, and Assiniboine.
Through interviews with holy women and the families of women healers, Mark St. Pierre and Tilda Long Soldier paint a rich and varied portrait of a society and its traditions. Stereotypical images of the Native American drop away as the voices, dreams, and experiences of these women (both healers and healed) present insight into a culture about which little is known. It is a journey into the past, an exploration of the present, and a view full of hope for the future.
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Walking in the Sacred Manner; Healers, Dreamers, and Pipe Carriers--Medicine Women of the Plains.......2007-02-12
This is an excellent book. For anyone interested in Native American society, religion, etc... Great book and very well written.
Walking in the Sacred Manner by Mark St.Pierre and Tilda Lon.......2004-01-22
Walking in the Sacred Manner by Mark St.Pierre and Tilda Long Soldier
I originally picked up this book because I thought it would have information on Native American herbal healing. If I had bothered to read the back of the book, I would have known this was not the case, but hey, I was in the middle of Holliday shopping.
What the book did turn out to be is a collection of Lakota legend and beliefs. It is filled with many first hand accounts of Medicine Women and witnesses who had been present at ceremonies. This is definitely NOT a how-to book. What it is, is a good overall view of the history and culture of the Oceti Sagowin (Lakota, Dakota and Nakota peoples, collectively known as the Sioux by the whites) and other Northern Plains tribes.
I found this to be a well put together narrative of interviews and history. Tilda Long Soldier was raised on Pine Ridge Reservation and grew up with the traditions of her people. Mark StPierre has spent 20 years among the Lakota and is a professor of sociology, anthropology and creative writing. All these things show through in this book. I think this book would make an ideal text for an anthropology or sociology student wanting to learn more of the culture.
There is a lot in this book I have yet to absorb. Aside from insights into the culture the one thing that I came away with is that these women were just that, women. They still lived their lives, raised their family and carried on a normal life. The things that they worked with were sacred, but they were not. They were simply women, doing the job that the spirits had asked of them. I am glad to have had this glimpse into a way of life now almost gone.
Walking in the Sacred Manner by Mark St.Pierre and Tilda Lon.......2004-01-22
Walking in the Sacred Manner by Mark St.Pierre and Tilda Long Soldier
I originally picked up this book because I thought it would have information on Native American herbal healing. If I had bothered to read the back of the book, I would have known this was not the case, but hey, I was in the middle of Holliday shopping.
What the book did turn out to be is a collection of Lakota legend and beliefs. It is filled with many first hand accounts of Medicine Women and witnesses who had been present at ceremonies. This is definitely
not a how to book. What it is, is a good overall view of the history and culture of the Oceti Sagowin (Lakota, Dakota and Nakota peoples, collectively known as the Sioux by the whites) and other Northern Plains tribes.
I found this to be a well put together narrative of interviews and history. Tilda Long Soldier was raised on Pine Ridge Reservation and grew up with the traditions of her people. Mark StPierre has spent 20 years among the Lakota and is a professor of sociology, anthropology and creative writing. All these things show through in this book. I think this book would make an ideal text for an anthropology or sociology student wanting to learn more of the culture.
There is a lot in this book I have yet to absorb. Aside from insights into the culture the one thing that I came away with is that these women were just that, women. They still lived their lives, raised their family and carried on a normal life. The things that they worked with were sacred, but they were not. They were simply women, doing the job that the spirits had asked of them. I am glad to have had this glimpse into a way of life now almost gone.
I did not care for this volume........2002-01-19
This book only contains brief biographies from five winan pejuta (medicine women), but does not teach the spiritual beliefs of these medicine women.
If you want to read about some of the abilities of medicine and holy people this would be a fairly good place to start.
If you want to understand the spiritual beliefs, and possibly work toward becoming a medicine or holy person; look elsewhere.
My Indian, and Shamanism listmania lists can help you in that search for spiritual beliefs of the American Indians.
I encourage questions and comments about reviews; Two Bears
Wah doh Ogedoda (We give thanks Great Spirit)
walking in the sacred manner.......2001-07-01
I got this book over a week ago and on the way back from Rosebud I read it to my boyfriend while we drove back to oklahoma. We both agreed that this book should be a must for all native American students and also anyone that wants to know about the Lakota Woman. I'm still trying to consume it all. Great book!!! Linda mcgann and Joe Hacker....
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Prophets of the Great Spirit: Native American Revitalization Movements in Eastern North America
Alfred Cave
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Prophets of the Great Spirit offers an in-depth look at the work of a diverse group of Native American visionaries who forged new, syncretic religious movements that provided their peoples with the ideological means to resist white domination. By blending ideas borrowed from Christianity with traditional beliefs, they transformed “high” gods or a distant and aloof creator into a powerful, activist deity that came to be called the Great Spirit. These revitalization leaders sought to regain the favor of the Great Spirit through reforms within their societies and the inauguration of new ritual practices.
Among the prophets included in this study are the Delaware Neolin, the Shawnee Tenkswatawa, the Creek “Red Stick” prophets, the Seneca Handsome Lake, and the Kickapoo Kenekuk. Covering more than a century, from the early 1700s through the Kickapoo Indian removal of the Jacksonian Era, the prophets of the Great Spirit sometimes preached armed resistance but more often used nonviolent strategies to resist white cultural domination. Some prophets rejected virtually all aspects of Euro-American culture. Others sought to assure the survival of their culture through selective adaptation.
Alfred A. Cave explains the conditions giving rise to the millenarian movements in detail and skillfully illuminates the key histories, personalities, and legacies of the movement. Weaving an array of sources into a compelling narrative, he captures the diversity of these prophets and their commitment to the common goal of Native American survival.
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